this
week was a miracle in itself. i dont think that last phrase made sense
in english but lets go im rolling with it!! we have four people that
have baptismal dates and are all progressing. tomorrow
will be the real test to see if they go to church. Javier, Danilo,
Carlos, and Gloria. we found carlos and gloria this week and they were
both absolute miracles! theyre awesome.
on wednesday
we had the first world missionary training session in over ten years!!
it was the coolest thing ever to sit there and know that my friends all
around the whole world were receiving the same instructions taht i was
in that moment. and thats because it doesnt matter where you are, or
waht you done, the gospel of Jesus Christ works in the everyone.
but
there was something that happened in the conference taht was almost
inexplainable. in our mission council the last week the assistants and i
coordinated a presentation where we talked a whole lot in both of our
presentations about working with part member families, converts and
references to find baptisms. we did a bunch of stuff adn i showed the
mission how to use the new system of sending and receiving references
every week to find people. also 3 weeks in ago for the new year i
changed our key indicators and we startign counting as a mission how
each new investigator is found each week, by reference, or by contact,
and then hwo each person got baptized, by reference or by contact.
in
the world conference they showed THE EXACT SAME THINGS! they literally
had the exact same numbers and types of graphs, and methods that we had
decided to do in the council, but for the whole world!! its amazing to
see that as a mission we find almost 5 times as much people every week
contacting than by references. however until now in 2016 we have 30
percent more baptisms by references then by contacts! obviously this
work is not about numbers. its about souls finding the truth. but it was
a big testimony builder to me that if we change our focus as a mission
and dedicate ourselves to being diligent with the members and working
with references we are going to baptize a lot more! yeah anyway good
stuff. it was awesome i learned a whole lot.
we
also had interviews with president this week which was a great
experience. it was a lot different this time... i pretty much just had a
good conversation with president diaz which was awesome. hes such a
loving man. i love him. he really is making the office a team. all of us
with him and his wife and the assistants are working really well
together adn we do almost everything togetther. he includes us on a lot
of the decisions and always asks for our input. i respect him more than
jsut about anyone in teh world.
ill try to tell
more about gloria and erica and carlos next week... but im out of time.
the Lord put them in our path for a reason adn weve had experiences
taht have been incredible with them. were gonna baptize this change.
lessss goooooooooo
-elder allred - chilean street raptor
foto- me riding in a horse carriage in the streets of viña
No comments:
Post a Comment