Elder Zach Seager

I'm super stoked to leave for Chile on Monday and get out of the CCM prinson (haha)! It's been a busy week with learning a lot of Spanish.  It is so hard but I can speak more and understand more everyday.  I also finished the Book of Mormon!   I gave a talk in sacrament meeting all in Spanish on the restoration and my testimony including why I am serving a mission. Everyone really liked my talk and said my Spanish was great! Read Alma 56 about the 2000 Stripling Warriors.  It's my favorite story in the Book of Mormon. #godsarmyletsgo Elder Seager

I got to play soccer this week in the soccer cage!  It was so fun and made me miss the Battlin Bear boys!!!! I megged three elders and now they call me Messi. My favorite story this week is about Einstein.  So Einstein is at a conference with all of the top scientists in the world.  He is asked a question about whether he believes in God.  He puts his watch on the table and takes it completely apart and lays all the components and every little part on the table.  He asks the scientists if they think in 10,000 years if it is possible for all these parts to go back into the watch.  They all say no not without help.  He then says how do you think the earth was formed?  It is too perfect for us and all the creatures to live here.  There has to be a higher power. Another part I liked this week was about the Ricciardi Letter.  It's pretty cool go search it and read it.  My favorite part of the letter is where it says "If you ...

My companion and I taught Priesthood this week.  We taught from the book Christ's Ideals for Living on the attributes of Christ.  That book is awesome.  We taught about 65 elders and it went well I think.  My companion was sick this past week and I was able to give him a blessing. He got feeling better the next day.  It was super dope. I love Alma 38.  If you get a chance go read it and replace the name son with your name.   It's the best. I am loving it here.  I love the Mexican people, the noises at night - haha - gun shots, fireworks and dogs barking all the time.  There is nothing better!  I only have about 3 weeks left here.  It is going fast.   Below is a picture of me with the head chef Estabon.  He is such a freaking bro!   #godsarmyletsgo Elder Seager

This week, one of the cool things our CCM Mission President shared was his missionary work family tree.  If you start with the Mission President and count his missionary years and add in his children who served and his grandchildren, the years add up to 55 years of missionary work treeing down from him.  I started to think about this and if you take Grandpa Harmon and my uncles and their kids who served plus Eli, Elizabeth and me, that's 24 years of missionary service just in my family. I was reminded of one of my favorite church talks this week from D. Todd Christofferson where the gardener comes out and cuts the bush and the bush says why did you cut me?  This happens three times and the bush gets mad but then eventually is the biggest bush in the garden with the most flowers.  "God is the gardener here.  He knows what he wants you to be. Submit yourselves to his will.  Be worthy of his blessings, and you will get his blessings."   ...

This week was hard.  The first three days were super hard.  Then I decided to totally forget about myself and stop being a baby and focus on Spanish. Every time I had free time instead of focusing on myself, my friends and ALTA, I started thinking about how I could improve myself and I started setting goals.  So I set goals like I wanted to speak and memorize this and this in Spanish and be able to talk to 10 Latinos a day.  Then I set a weekly goal.  This has been the thing that has helped me the most.   Then one of the General Authorities came and talked to us.  He talked about how the atonement helps us every day.  He told this story where the fishermen are fishing and Jesus walks out and says drop your nets and follow me. He told everyone to drop their nets metaphorically ... for me it would be skiing, soccer and girls and all that stuff I am losing out on and forget about myself.  It really hit me hard.  ...

Thank you to everyone who came and supported Zach at his farewell! Here is the talk he gave: Would you look at that. So many familiar faces. So glad you guys could make it! I will be serving a 2 year mission in Santiago, Chile! I'm so excited. Today I will be talking about how I chose to serve a mission and how cool this gospel is.   Big shout out to the homies that drove down from USU and up from Utah County; it means a lot to me!!! I recently read an article from the Church News that I really liked, yes I do   read the Church News - because my Aunt Sarah is the Editor. The article is “Dealing with Life's Doors” by Boyd Matheson. In the article it talked about how President Nelson had to choose between different doors in his life. He was faced with many hard choices. When President Nelson was in Uruguay a few months ago, a boy asked him if it was difficult to leave behind his medical career when he was called to be an Apostle.   President Nelson respond...