Elder Kai Hicken: The Missionary: Consejo, and Feliz Semana Santa

Monday, March 21, 2016

Consejo, and Feliz Semana Santa

I've noticed a quantity of emails from other missionaries with the initiative of the Church "Halleluyah". To us we haven't gotten anything, so I'm not sure if that's also an initiative in Colombia too. I don't know, these kinds of things seem to always get to us real late. De pronto [Maybe all of a sudden] they get to us this week sometime.

Hey, shout out to Mackenzie for getting her call to Fukuoka Japan!

This week we went to Medellín for the Consejo de Líderes. The ride there is normally about 10 hours and the buses aren't very comfortable. It made me miss the 7 comfortable hours from Armenia. Pailas. It was a good consejo, though. Real different than the anteriors [previous ones].

At the Leaders' council in Medellin

Élder Canavese y Élder Hicken, Elder Covarrubias and Elder Velazquez

We've had a rather successful cambio so far, but for Semana Santa people are traveling out and so this week is going to be interesting. Something that my companion and I have been doing is follow our leaders no matter what. Even if it doesn't seem the best thing to do, if it's in line with the commandments, follow your leaders. It'll turn out alright. God blesses people who follow their leaders more than people who do their best effort without following their leaders.

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.