Elder Kai Hicken: The Missionary: January 2015

Thursday, January 29, 2015

More January Photos

Couple of us in Burger King in SantaFe mall (super huge) having milkshakes

Jan 6, 2015

Recognize this picture? [We have a framed poster of this (in English) hanging at home.]

We watched God´s Not Dead as a ward and if you´ve seen the movie, you´ll understand why we got this message.

We climbed the steps up this road and I took the picture as Hurtado rested

My drawer one day. JetBars are important. ALso Sunglasses and watches are super cheap. The drawer is filled with less than 20 dollars of stuff

Jan 10, 2015: Eating Sancocho (a traditional soup) with the office and some members. Hurtado and I have shirts and ties because this was not our pday, but it was the office´s pday.

After a baptism

buying soda after the baptism

Walking home after the baptism

Johnson, Hicken, Routson

Routson, Ruiz, Chuquimia, Muñoz

Ruiz, Johnson, Hicken

Muñoz, Hurtado, Ruiz

Johnson, Hicken, Routson

View from some hill

What we saw when we got to the LZ home at 9:35 last night

[We close the door at 9:00 pm, no later than 9:30]

the first half of the song we sang to Ruiz

second half of the song

Hicken, Pastrana

Jan 21, 2015: some dog watching some action below, it was just cute

chickens sleeping in a tree

Bridge over the Río Medellín

River

Just a street shot that I thought turned out pretty.

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Elder Kai Cyril Hicken

Colombia Medellin Mission

Calle 7 Sur 42-70 Edificio Forum P.H.
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Medellin Antioquia
COLOMBIA

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Elder Kai Cyril Hicken

Colombia Medellin Mission

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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.