Hola Familia,
Good to hear that everyone is doing
well. I´m doing just fine. It was a good week. My companion, Élder Torres, and
I had a meeting with the Stake President this week to talk about the progress
of the mission efforts of each ward. We realized that the Ward Mission Leaders
in each respective ward and branch, for a lack of training, had no Idea what
they are supposed to be doing. So based off of the Worldwide Training materials
from Hastening the Work of Salvation, my companion and I along with the Stake
President are going to give training for the Ward Mission Leaders and explain
the importance of their role in coordinating the efforts between the members,
ward council, and missionaries.
To help with this overall goal we
have of coordinating the efforts we are planning on the Ward Mission Leaders
having contact by phone at least 3 times in the week where they will be
informed of the work the missionaries are doing and how the ward can help, and
the missionaries will know what efforts the ward is making and what it is that
the missionaries can do to help.
This week we got to see some of the
fruits of working with the members. I had a really cool experience I wanted to
share with you.
Saturday night, after having
passed-by and called almost every investigator we had we were rather desesperado
because we honestly weren’t expecting anyone in church the following day. I had
this feeling that there was a member that was going to bring someone, or
someone that needed to bring someone and I told my companion. We started to
think of different members that we could call, to invite them to invite someone
to church. From the list we made no one answered. That night when we prayed,
like always we prayed for the members to have missionary experiences and
specifically that the members could invite someone to church.
We left that morning to go search for
some people; they were all sleeping and didn´t open. We went back to church for
the last part of Elders Quorum, then decided to leave again; again with no
results.
But about 5 minutes after we get back,
two people arrive, a less active Hermana and her son that a member had invited
to come.
The came to the last two hours
(principios del evangelio (Sunday School) and la Sacramental). The son (non
member) accepted us to go visit him tomorrow. I´m super excited to get to know
them better. Honestly these last few weeks have been a bit rough. We had been
finding very few people and the few people we were finding after the second
visit didn´t want anything.
While we wait on the results of our
work with the members we still feel the urgency to find more people to teach.
Elder Torres and I have put some personal plans and goals to find more people
to teach, so I´m excited for this following week.
I´m doing great, loving the ward. The
members keep surprising me with their disposition to work.
Well Love you all,
Élder Benjamin Taylor
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