Elder Kai Hicken: The Missionary: Rapidito

Monday, March 14, 2016

Rapidito - [Small and really quick]

We don´t have much time today. This week we go to Medellín for the Consejo de Líderes.

I´m just going to answer Mom´s questions and give a quick update. It´s going good, Élder Alvarado is about my height, morenito, flaquito, talks a lot, he´s about to end the mission the next cambio [transfer]. He´s from Lima, he´s a good worker, and yes we are co-zone leaders -- there´s always two here. The area was real rough the last cambio for reasons but with the cambio the reasons aren´t here anymore and we´re free to progress. We had 7 nuevos [new missionaries] this week and we are working hard to be, to put it the most simply, perfect. We are pointing out openly everything that we need to better to be perfect and we make goals. Maybe it seems unorthodox, but that´s probably the best way to explain it in few words; it´s working anyway, so don´t comment. Como we will be in Medellín or traveling for half the week, we don´t have much time to work. So, we´re working a bit more today, and we have the first cita [appointment] in like 10 minutes so I write short for that. Have a great week, be ye therefore perfect.

Always Great,

Élder Hicken

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February 15, 2016

I was assigned a talk in Church yesterday and I felt it was important to talk about friends. Really, the importance of making friends with people who aren't active in the church, be they less-active or not baptized. The activity in the Church shouldn't depend on if they feel comfortable or fellowshipped by the members because it should be a given. Their activity should depend solely on their own testimony. I´ve met too many people on the mission that don´t go to church because they don´t have friends there and the members think that being their ´friend´ is visit them every week or month and invite them to church. A friend would communicate with the person often, invite them to things, spend time with them outside of their callings or responsibilities, serve them, help them out, and there just isn't enough of that in the Church in general. It makes a huge difference, though.

May 2, 2016

One mistake that many people make here is the requisites for read the Book of Mormon. They often say they don´t have time, but it´s because they try to take out 15-20 minutes at least. It´s better to read the Book of Mormon for 2 minutes everyday than 20 minutes every week. It isn´t a textbook, it isn´t just to obtain knowledge and memorize. It´s the key to our spiritual progress, the key to our religion and if everyday there are temptations and confusions and spots from the world, how can we think that we are alright not strengthening us as equally frequent or more frequently? Read the Book of Mormon EVERYDAY if it be for few minutes or for more.