chancho quest

chancho is a pig. 

this week we had interviews with president and we saw general conference and we participated in a chancho quest!

i say chancho quest because on monday the district came up with the idea of killing a pig to celebrate the going home of elder brian. and so we spent the whole week looking for a suitable pig that wouldn´t be that expensive. we only wanted a little pig, we found many pig venders, but no one wanted to sell us their little pigs, they only wanted to sell us their big pigs, but those are way expensive and so in the end we bought 7 kilos of pig meat and had a big bbq for just the six of us. i learned how to make guacamole and ate really well. it was a lot of fun. 

Conference was pretty rad. it´s always a great experience in the mission to go to conference. I think the talk that stood out to me the most was the talk about the ropes with elder bednar, i think that rope principle is a really powerful idea in teaching, showing people how the gospel is all tied together is much more powerful than just teaching the individual strands.

I like the changes that they made, as missionaries people always say, "oh you are from the mormon church?" and i would love to see the day where people stop using that name and strangers know us as missionaries of the church of jesus christ. that would be really cool.

the greatest lesson that i´ve learned in this transfer with elder quiroz is the importance of communication. in any relationship. Communication is key. and people need to feel like they are in a safe envirornment to share their real feelings. No relationship will succeed without efective communication. And it is very dificult that any relationship could fail if they communticate effectivley. 

love you all 

elder grilliot

mexican bbq

hanging out with the chickens

and brayan!