Iron Rod

So this week was super awesome. I am sure that you may remember that while i was in the MTC i had a companion, and how i had to fight super hard to get him to stay on the mission.

Well this week, he was living in my house!

Its actually kind of a sad story, but ends good. His companion, had a medical emergency, and had to get flown up to Chiles Capital City, Santiago, and he was there in the hospital pretty much all week, and so he is  now an incredible missionary, couldnt spend a week alone, so he moved into my house for the week, and that was so awesome, and he told me his whole story of how he decided to stay on the mission. But he told me how pretty much every single step of the way that he would ask about me to see if anyone had known what had happened to me in the last year and almost a half. And He said ``Dude, i dont know how you did it.´´ And he just told me about how every single missionary he met had heard about  crazy stories that had happened to me in the mission. Everything from that house burning down, to baptisms that i had. And i want to go into more details about our conversations that we had but i am going to decide not too. But there is one that i want to share about.

There was one night we were sitting at home, and we were talking about how much we have changed on the mission, and with him it was super noticeable, how he was when i was companions is not even a shadow of the missionary he is now. But he told me about how much he has noticed that i have changed too, and we were just amazed and how different we are then we used to be. Granted our personalities are pretty much the same, its just alot of the bad things about us now are gone, and were replaced with good things.And alot of other really personal things that i am not going to share through email, in person ill totally do it some day. 

 This week we planned a huge activity in our church that was super awesome, and it was a giant representation of Lehi's Dream, and we got everyone in the church blindfolded, and we set up a bunch of fishing line to be the iron rod, and we put them all the way on one end of the building, and they had to find there way through the darkness to get to the iron rod, and then follow that until the end.

We had some of the missionaries play the role of the still small voice to guide people and other ones to try to distract them and take them off of the path.  I had the fun job to play the part of Satan hahahahaaha, so i spent the night deceiving people, getting them away from the iron rod, what my personal favorite tactic though to get them off the rod when they were already on it was find an important intersection in the lines,  and then try to get them to follow my voice, and oh my gosh i got way too many people to fall away hahaha.  but the the sister missionaries who were the angels later saved them when they saw how bad i got them lost haha.  but i learned something awesome from that.

Alot of times in our lives, in really decisive moments is when temptations is going to get harder (because thats when its more effective haha), and its just really important to never let go of the iron rod, not even for a second, because thats when you get lost. It was actually a really spiritual experience for everyone, and a ton of people bore their testimonies about it the next day in sacrament meeting. It was awesome. I really want to do that activity again in my next ward.

Well there is a bunch of stuff that i need to do right now, and i dont have alot of time. But keep me posted on how you are all doing! Love you!