Elder Zach Seager

Sup guys, I was thinking a lot this week about the joy we feel in the gospel of Jesus Christ and how much happier we are than people without it! It's crazy to think about and I love feeling the Holy Ghost. It gives me such a drive and desire every day to go hit the streets to help other people feel it.  It's something different and something more powerful than most people have ever felt! I like to explain it like this to people, the Holy Ghost is the most powerful drug you can find here on earth! You won't find this feeling anywhere else than in the Gospel. It's crazy to think about! I have done some crazy things in life and look forward to doing many more crazy things! When I think about the feeling of the adrenaline stoke out of my mind skiing on a powder day, or catching 30-inch fish with my best friends, or even cliff jumping, the adrenaline rush is still a super small feeling compared to the feeling in the gospel! It's hard to explain because it's di...

So, we got tear-gassed this past week.  It was crazy!!!! We were at the bank to pull some money out and then this huge mob of teenagers came running around the corner. One of them screamed look the Mormons.  I was about to run and then the cops threw a tear gas bomb and it hurt so bad.  My buddies from the mission were so scared. I went beast mode and threw off my tie and tied it around my face so I could breathe a little better.  I used my tie to cover my eyes a little and hurried and pulled off my missionary tag and put it in my pocket. I was trying not to die and thought it was best to take my tag off so they didn't know I was a missionary.  Guess that didn't help much. It was so crazy. We ran down the street and hopped on a bus and dipped out of there. It was scary and 4 of the missionaries got locked in the bank, but everyone eventually got out safe. I hope you guys are doing good! We are grinding out here and have been full this whole week! I had a ...

Chile was on fire!  We are alive and doing good.  It was so crazy though!!!!  We were in the house for a whole week and everyone thought we were going to die! I didn't mind it because I was finally able to work out for long periods of time.  It was great, but after a week in the house you just want to leave and walk around and see the sun! I felt somewhat like Anne Frank stuck up in the attic, it wasn't fun but now we are working hard again!  Before all the riots started, I was transferred to a new area.  I love it!  It is so great and the people are so humble. It's a really poor area and if I am being honest, it's kinda gross.  There is a lot of trash in the streets and a lot of people telling us to fight Donald Trump.  There is one kid here that I love.  He only knows like five words in English and they are not appropriate words. Every time I walk down the street he says these words to me and my comp just gets mad.  The ...

This past week was weird. I was super sad and hated my life on Monday and Tuesday. Then on Wednesday, I prayed and asked to help me change my attitude. Then I was able to do two full days of service and man I loved that! We built walls in this girls house we are teaching and put up the drywall. Then the second day, we moved a family. We didn't have a car or a truck so we had to walk about 10 minutes down the crazy Santiago street with their stuff.  Hahaha! It was way fun and helped me a lot! I taught this kid about the atonement and he loved it! He started crying once he realized he was a child of God and God loves him! We have been trying to have to members help us with the work and lessons and they are loving it! We taught a really big lesson and the brother that helped us killed it! He helped one of our investigators get ready for his baptism coming up on Saturday.  The ward is pumped.  I had a really spiritual high and felt the holy drug aka the Holy Ghost....

The power of a testimony is something crazy! This week was way good! On Sunday we had one of our investigators at church and she loved it and loved the new Come Follow Me program. Earlier we had given her a baptism date of September 7, but she decided to wait until December.  The coolest thing happened after church, she told us she wanted to be more obedient and follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized. We had a lesson with her after church and a recent convert joined us. The crazy thing about the convert was that it wasn't even his ward or stake and he felt lost in Santiago so he went to the church that was closest to his house.  The convert's testimony on baptism was so powerful.  It made our investigator want to get baptized really badly so she has a new date of September 21.  She's pumped and now is studying the Come Follow Me book the church has for us!  It is crazy that God knows each of us and knew that she needed to hear the testimony of...

This was a really good week.  I have been working with several people and it is great to see their progression.  It is also amazing to see tiny miracles that occur every day.  I met a girl and her two sons who has been struggling with addiction.  She is a member, but has not been to church in over five years.  We talked her into coming to church and she was feeling uncomfortable about coming and felt like the ward had judged her for some of her addictions.  She was afraid to go back to church alone.  We walked her to church and sat with her.  Another investigator we have been working with promised to come to church too.  She sat right behind the girl we brought back to church.  After Sacrament meeting, the investigator saw the girl we brought back to church and was so happy.  They had been life long friends and hadn't seen each other in ten years.  It was exactly what they both needed to feel connected and comfortable at churc...

This week I got a little lost in the work and forgot about everything at my house in Utah. hahahah I went hard this week boys! I have really been trying to teach with the Book of Mormon and it is paying off.  These people love it and they love the stories in it!  It is such a powerful book and there is no way Joseph Smith could have translated it.  Something dope I figured out this week in my personal study was that when Nephi broke his bow and then he made a new one -the weird thing is he also made arrows.  Why did he make more arrows if he already had the old ones?  It is because when you hunt with a bow and arrow you need the arrows to be the exact same size!!  How would Joseph Smith know that?  It is crazy little things you can see in the Book of Mormon that testifies of its truthfulness.  This week we worked really hard and found a lot of new people to teach.  One of the girls we have been teaching just committed to a baptism dat...