Another thing that we did this week is that we went to every less
active that has a baby that hasn't been blesses and taught them about
children. Being fast Sunday it means you can bless a baby and it seems
that for most less actives they just need a
push to get over the edge and go to church and after that they do
pretty well. So we went and taught from 3rd Nephi 17 about bringing
the children to Jesus and Jesus blessing them. We only ended up having
one baby blessing yesterday, but it was good to
see at least one new less active come to church. We got a lot of new
investigators this week as well. What we have been doing is instead of
teaching less actives is using the less actives as fellowshippers and
teaching the friends of our less actives. Less
actives feel the spirit that once blessed their lives and they also
testify of the truth to their friend, they also get the benefit of the
doctrine we teach. It has worked pretty well, depends on the less
active though. We have to brief the less active beforehand
and also be careful that they don't teach false doctrine. We had one
experience though that was just Golden. We were at the house of a less
active to teach and her friend came over. Our less active invited her
friend to come and listen to the missionaries.
We taught a good lesson and then guess what. We didn't invite her to
come to church. Our less active fellowshipper beat us to it. She
invited he friend to come to church with her. Just Golden. Get a less
active and an investigator to come to church.
Essentially we do our investigator finding through less actives.
We found another investigator couple this week that is just
great. They are cousins of a less active and happened to be there when
we went over. The only problem with them is they don't live in our
area. They were very receptive, but when we asked
if we could go to their house they said they'd rather be taught with
their cousin at their cousins house. i.e they'd rather be taught in our
area, but we can't actually baptize them in our area. We are thinking
of going on exchanges with the Zone leaders
for the next appointment so they can meet the missionaries in their
area. They want to learn more but I think don't like the idea of being
taught by a new and different missionary. We live with the Zone leaders
so we might make it happen.
I also found out that a lot of names in our area book are
wrong. Missionaries just wrote what they heard and wrote a lot wrong.
For less actives I just took a ward directory and corrected them, for
investigators I just had to ask them all what
their names were again. There is not a less active named Mom. That
name was misheard.
Anyway a lot more happened but if I were to write it all I wouldn't have any stories to tell later.
Have a good week, keep your head up, and smile.
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