Don't Hold Anything Back!

Saturday morning we experienced “The coming of Nash”. We had a multi-zone conference with him here in Iquitos. The missionaries from Pullcalpa and the other zone here in Iquitos all came to our Stake Center to be apart of the conference. President Nash came with is wife and of course President and Sister Perez were there too. The purpose of the whole conference was to strengthen our ability to teach, contact, and realize our true purpose of being Representatives of Christ. It was six hours of true inspiration. President Nash shared an experience that he had with one of his sons when he was serving a mission. When they were saying goodbye in the airport his son was giving hugs to his family but didn’t leave much time to say goodbye to his dad (President Nash). He quickly gave his son a hug and told him one thing “Don’t hold anything back”. When President Nash said those words something hit me hard. It brought back so many times when I did hold something back, when I didn’t give everything that I had. More than anything it brought the pain of Regret that I have experienced before. It made me think of my junior year and the Stake Track Championships. When I was running the 800 for our relay and I took the baton in first place. What happened that day still haunts me because I finished that race knowing that I hadn’t given everything. That my teammates paid the price for my efforts. I held something back.

One of my goals here in the field that I made for myself back in the MTC was to give everything in every moment so that I won´t feel that same pain of regret that I felt that day in Bronco Stadium. The zone conference gave me another opportunity to rededicate myself to give everything so that when I some home I can tell my dad and those I love “I didn´t hold anything back”.