Elder Kyle Reynolds: Remembering What's Most Important!

Chillogallo Zone, Quito Ecuador

Hello Everyone!

So lots of things happened this week...As you all know my companion, Elder Price, is a little bit handicap and we can't work that much. But we managed to do what we could. Then we got a call on Tuesday...my heart dropped when we got this call. So we got emergency changed (transfers) and he went to the offices so he can work on computers and I stayed here in Chillogallo. Another Elder that has been here before is coming back so that we can work the sector for the few weeks we have left in the change. So his name is Elder Mansell. He is a super great missionary. What I love is his diligence in this work. I found out why this week that he is a 4th generation missionary or something like that and man he is sooooo prepared to be a missionary! Its crazy to hear about all his goals he has and how prepared he was coming into the mission. He only has 2 changes left but we were just getting to know each other and its sooo cool how prepared he was and still is! So we have been working super hard this past week. It was funny because he came Wednesday and we started working super hard, just contacting people left and right...And then on Saturday he got super sick and we couldn't go out for the whole day. He felt super bad that we couldn't work and was like man, was this what it's like staying in the house the whole day??! This sucks! haha I was like...you get used to it after a week or so lol. But it's so true that when you have to stay in the house it's the worst! The days go by extremely slow and you can't help but start talking about home and all...

So this week was mainly about a lot of diligence. No missionaries have really been here for 2 months or so. Yeah it's pretty dead but luckily we are here! We are having a zone meeting this week and we are preparing something in order to train the missionaries in the zone. We were thinking about the needs of the zone and actually this past week it came to us that it's not enough to be diligent. We have to have effective diligence! I think as missionaries we just get caught up in the routine of things and just start contacting like crazy and yes that does work, but there is a better way. Maybe we can go to members houses and ask for references, maybe we can call around to see if investigators are there in their house...there are a ton of things! We like the scripture in Doctrine & Covenants that says "serve with all your heart, might, MIND, and strength." Our mind is a God-given object that sometimes we fail to use! Then obviously I was thinking about what to write for this email and I was thinking about the same thing in life...We get caught up in the world and we begin to forget what our purpose is. Thank goodness for INDICADORES CLAVE (key indicators)!! haha all the RMs are going to laugh at that but these are numbers that help us reach our goal. Kind of like what actually matters or what is most important among the many things we have to do as missionaries. I thought about in life what the indicadores claves (key indicators) are and they are ordenanzas (ordinances)! They are absolutely necessary to get back to Heavenly Father. You can't go to Him without these special promises! What is the purpose in life? What is the objective of being here? In Alma 34:32 "For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors." This is time to prepare!! So everything we do should help us reach that goal. Being diligent in life but remembering what's most important. I hope that we can all remember what is most important and won't have death bed confessions or regrets. I know that if we follow the teachings of Jesus Christ, we will never have regrets in this life. It's a promise! I love you all.

Elder Reynolds