this
week was great. we saw lots of changes, changes that led people on the
straight and narrow and on their way to baptism, and change that
distracted people from what should be a priority in their life to fall
for things of lesser importance. Satan is pretty tricky sometimes. he
makes good things seem REALLY GOOD sometimes to make us ignore something
that could be even better! I hate that guy.
i
learned this week that being creative is very very important in
missionary work. i mean yeah ive always known that every time i teach i
gotta try different tactics and follow the spirit. but reading a few
things this week helped us out as a companionship. i found a book in a
corner of our house in some cabinet that was written by David Covey
called ¨the highly effective missionary¨and i would highly suggest it
for anybody that is preparing to go on a mission. its full of great
ideas and we decided to try one of them out this week. its called the 8
step survey door approach. in teh office before leaving one day i
created a type of questionaire to use wehn we knock doors. teh approach
basicallly consists in saying key words to begin the contact, and at the
right poitn in the conversation after asking them if they could answer
the survey questions and them saying yes, taking a bold move and begin
walking into their house as if you assume taht you will be doing the
survey inside. after doing the survery questions you ask if you ask to
say a prayer and immediately begin teaching lesson 1. its good stuff. we
found 3 new investigators in about an hour of knocking doors. and one
of them has a baptismal date. we are going to keep testing it out and
find out what the statistics are to it and then present it to President on MOnday
in our meeting to share it with the mission. its simple. but it works.
were here to teach, not to walk around getting doors slammed in our
faces. sometimes you just gotta try new and even weird things.
as
a mission this last week we almost double the amount of references that
we average! the new program and enfasis has launched off like crazy and
the amount of new investigators followed that number. there have been
many miracles i cant wait to see how it affects everything. but its
working. the mission is beginning to understand 1. why working with
members and receiving references is important and 2. how to manage the
references that they have. as the reference secretary it makes my job a
lot more fun.
on thursday
at nine a clock a night our last appt had fallen through. so me and my
comp kind of just starting walking randomly, as i like to say with the
wind, and we stumbled upon Pablo our new friend. he was in teh street
sitting down on the curb smoking and instead of just going up and
contacting him we asked if he knew anyone close by we could visit. he
turns to us and goes maybe, but i hate your church so go away. haha so
after throwing some jokes out and lightening the mood we figured out
that he thought we were jehovahs witness. we then asked if we could ask
him the survey questions and then started wlaking inside his house as he
followed us. by the end of teaching the restoration he told us that he
has never felt so good talking about God with other people in his life.
he lives alone in a one bedroom pension, and has almost nothing becasue
he recently was divorced. were going back tonight. hes a stud.
Danilo
finally came back from Temuco!!! after two weeks of calling him every
other day just to tell him jokes he is back in Viña and hes even
spiritually stronger than he is when he left! his faith muscle is
bulging! we were a little nervous to teach the law of chastity and word
of wisdom but hes good with everything. his GF is the bomb. she made
things real clear with him. and he says hes going to stop drinking tea.
his last challenge will be tithing. tonight with our quorum president we
are going to teach it and when he accepts it he`ll be baptized next
saturady Lesss gooooo!!!
well... thats about
it. oh one more thing. the other day my convert came to the office and
was like hey i have a reference for you guys. my comp was busy so me and
elder frampton went to visit this guy and his name was axel. he a
baller and we went back last night to teach him. hes wants to go to
church, he wants to get baptized, but the guy smokes more than a
chimney! 60 cigarrettes a day! thats okay though. before we left last
night we soaked one of his cigarrettes in milk for him, and he smoked
it. we heard it helps i dont know. we had to try something!! fe no mas.
love you guys we had a great week and things are rolling. ROLLLL TIDE!
-Elder Allred - Chilean Street Raptor
i sent a link to Di with the dropbox to watch our office episode of the christmas concert. <3
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