June 24, 2013

I'm glad everyone is making it through the storms ok. It's "stormed" couple times here but nothing like it does back home. Mostly it's just dry and hot all day but this last week has been pretty nice but it's supposed to go back up to the 90's and 100's again this week.

 

This week has been super slow. Since we no longer have a car, we have two of the priests from our ward driving us around today. We have also been doing a lot of biking and walking because almost all of our appointments fell through and a lot of the people we normally visit have not been home. My companion and I will start to implement a plan we came up last week of setting up lessons with members and encouraging them to invite non-member friends then teaching about the restoration and then asking for referrals It's interesting that we came up with this because last night there was a broadcast from Salt Lake to the whole world that changed a lot about how missionary work should be done. Basically, they are putting a lot more on to the bishop and members to move the work forward and one of the things was that members should do most all the finding of investigators for the missionaries. We hope that because of this, we will be able to have a lot more people we can help bring in to the gospel.

 

I would also encourage you to invite non-member friends for dinner with the missionaries or to lessons with them. The missionaries would love you forever, I promise. I think I understand more about why the missionaries said they were not getting support from the branch, it was because there was not a whole lot of member involvement or referring others to the missionaries. It is so ineffective to tract door to door, we have found only one person to teach that way. Member involvement and referrals are absolutely necessary for our success, most all the people we teach are member referrals.

 

I love you and miss you too.