22 lessons! This last week was great, and Elder A and I both feel great after teaching that many lessons. I'm glad that we were able to do it, and that I could be a part of helping him achieve that.
We had such a great week. We taught a lot, and we were laughing and having a great time. Monday night we started out with two MRLs, one in each ward. We taught the J family at dinner, and when we challenged them to invite a friend to see their mormon.org profile, the mom went right over to her sons nonmember friend and gave him the passalong card, then she came back and asked for another, and told her family that they need to catch up. It was great. Right after that we went to the Torres family in Springville, and we taught them the Plan of Salvation. I used the cut outs that I made, and their little daughter loved it. When I pulled out the picture of Christ she said, "Silly Jesus". It was great.
Tuesday I was on an exchange with our zone leaders. I was with Elder P, and we had a great time together. We talked about the military, well more like he asked questions and I answered, but we got to know each other, and become better friends. We had a really neat experience during our day, we went by one of their potential investigators with a couple of recently returned missionaries from their ward, and we were able to have a lesson with her right then. The whole lesson was taught by the members in Chinese. I don't know what was said, but I could still feel the Spirit, which I thought was great. Turns out that she accepted a soft commitment to baptism. After the lesson we were looking in the trunk of their car, and we found a Chinese Book of Mormon, the only problem was it was traditional, instead of simplified. A few hours later as we were grabbing a Book of Mormon to start tracting, we found a simplified Chinese Book of Mormon. It was perfect. We had a great talk that night about how I think my mission is going, it was good to reflect a little, and evaluate what I've been doing, and how I can improve. I learned a lot from Elder P, and hope to be able to use those things in my work. The one thing that stood out the most was how many times he prays, for the Spirit, and the goals for that day. He reminded me of my exchange with Elder Pelham while I was in Hillsboro. Elder A taught two MRLs with ElderH.
Wednesday was a great day. We taught six lessons, and we even had one fall through. We had a less-active in Springville, a member present in Rock Creek, that gave us a new investigator, and three MRLs. We also tracted for a half hour, we only knocked about seven or eight doors, but one of those doors gave us a great potential investigator. A young woman named H answered, and we shared a brief message, and asked if she wanted to learn more, and she said yes. I then continued to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, sharing with her the steps of the Gospel; faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. The Spirit was there, and she seemed really interested. We set up an appointment with her for the next day at 3pm. I came home that night full of thanks, and amazed by what God had helped us do.
Thursday we stopped by the less active member that the bishop in Rock Creek asked us to go see. We had a quick lesson with her and her nonmember husband. They were both there, and it qualified as a member present, but we taught more to her than we did to him, so we counted it as just a less active lesson. We have a return appoinment for this Tuesday, and if her husband shows real interest, then we will focus on him, and count it as a member present and a new investigator. I believe that there is potential there, but it may need to come about slowly. After that we stopped by Haylee to have our second lesson, where we would have counted her as a new investigator, but she didn't answer the door. I saw her inside, but she never answered. We stayed in the area, and tracted, stopping back occasionally, but we never got a hold of her. When we left I wrote a note and left it on her door with our phone number. We went back on Friday, and the note was gone, but we still haven't heard from her. We will keep trying this week, and hopefully we will be able to meet with her. We also had a lesson with K D, he didn't have a car, so he rode a scooter all the way from his house to the Church where we met. It showed a lot of dedication. We taught him the Plan of Salvation. After the lesson he told us that he had once had a dream where he was inside the Portland temple, and he told one of his mormon friends about it, who responded with, "yep, thats pretty much what it looks like." I asked him if he would like to see for himself, and explained that baptism was a neccesary step for that. We then set a date with him for August 25. We are taking him to the Visitors Center this Thursday.
Friday we taught four more MRLs, with the J, G, M, D from Springville. Leaving all of them with the challenge to 1. set up their mormon.org profile, 2.invite a friend to see it. We are helping our members to do missionary work, so they can help us find people to teach, and we will have fellowship already in place when we begin to teach them.
Saturday we spent the first half of the day at our Stake Pioneer Day. It was a lot of fun, and we were able to set up a few lessons with members, and get to know the people of our stake and wards a little better. A few members in our ward were able to bring nonmember friends. We have to lessons from anyone that came, but it shows that our members are willing and ready to invite their friends.
Sunday was a great day, we set up two lessons with nonmembers for the comming week, one with K E, and the other with D S. We will meet with them both on Thursday this week. We finished the night with three MRLs in Springville, with the P, H, and J.
I am super excited for this week. We have another 17 lessons set, and two of our investigators that have been on vacation are back in town, so we should be able to meet with them. I hope to be able to hit 20 lessons again this week, and hopefully every week this transfer. It feels so good to teach a lot like that. It builds confidence, and helps to motivate you, because once you've done it once, you know that you can do it again.
I'm doing great. I have been writing in my journal everyday, and really trying to improve my prayers, and my studies. I have had a couple really great personaly studies this last week. Elder A and I are still getting along great, and I look forward to spending another transfer with him. We have been doing better on the morning schedule. We played soccer as a zone this morning, and then had a zone breakfast. We said our goodbyes to the elders leaving, and had a great time. We are going to do a lot better this transfer, and we have already started it off good. We have three lessons set up for tonight, so it should be a great day today.
We had such a great week. We taught a lot, and we were laughing and having a great time. Monday night we started out with two MRLs, one in each ward. We taught the J family at dinner, and when we challenged them to invite a friend to see their mormon.org profile, the mom went right over to her sons nonmember friend and gave him the passalong card, then she came back and asked for another, and told her family that they need to catch up. It was great. Right after that we went to the Torres family in Springville, and we taught them the Plan of Salvation. I used the cut outs that I made, and their little daughter loved it. When I pulled out the picture of Christ she said, "Silly Jesus". It was great.
Tuesday I was on an exchange with our zone leaders. I was with Elder P, and we had a great time together. We talked about the military, well more like he asked questions and I answered, but we got to know each other, and become better friends. We had a really neat experience during our day, we went by one of their potential investigators with a couple of recently returned missionaries from their ward, and we were able to have a lesson with her right then. The whole lesson was taught by the members in Chinese. I don't know what was said, but I could still feel the Spirit, which I thought was great. Turns out that she accepted a soft commitment to baptism. After the lesson we were looking in the trunk of their car, and we found a Chinese Book of Mormon, the only problem was it was traditional, instead of simplified. A few hours later as we were grabbing a Book of Mormon to start tracting, we found a simplified Chinese Book of Mormon. It was perfect. We had a great talk that night about how I think my mission is going, it was good to reflect a little, and evaluate what I've been doing, and how I can improve. I learned a lot from Elder P, and hope to be able to use those things in my work. The one thing that stood out the most was how many times he prays, for the Spirit, and the goals for that day. He reminded me of my exchange with Elder Pelham while I was in Hillsboro. Elder A taught two MRLs with ElderH.
Wednesday was a great day. We taught six lessons, and we even had one fall through. We had a less-active in Springville, a member present in Rock Creek, that gave us a new investigator, and three MRLs. We also tracted for a half hour, we only knocked about seven or eight doors, but one of those doors gave us a great potential investigator. A young woman named H answered, and we shared a brief message, and asked if she wanted to learn more, and she said yes. I then continued to teach about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, sharing with her the steps of the Gospel; faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. The Spirit was there, and she seemed really interested. We set up an appointment with her for the next day at 3pm. I came home that night full of thanks, and amazed by what God had helped us do.
Thursday we stopped by the less active member that the bishop in Rock Creek asked us to go see. We had a quick lesson with her and her nonmember husband. They were both there, and it qualified as a member present, but we taught more to her than we did to him, so we counted it as just a less active lesson. We have a return appoinment for this Tuesday, and if her husband shows real interest, then we will focus on him, and count it as a member present and a new investigator. I believe that there is potential there, but it may need to come about slowly. After that we stopped by Haylee to have our second lesson, where we would have counted her as a new investigator, but she didn't answer the door. I saw her inside, but she never answered. We stayed in the area, and tracted, stopping back occasionally, but we never got a hold of her. When we left I wrote a note and left it on her door with our phone number. We went back on Friday, and the note was gone, but we still haven't heard from her. We will keep trying this week, and hopefully we will be able to meet with her. We also had a lesson with K D, he didn't have a car, so he rode a scooter all the way from his house to the Church where we met. It showed a lot of dedication. We taught him the Plan of Salvation. After the lesson he told us that he had once had a dream where he was inside the Portland temple, and he told one of his mormon friends about it, who responded with, "yep, thats pretty much what it looks like." I asked him if he would like to see for himself, and explained that baptism was a neccesary step for that. We then set a date with him for August 25. We are taking him to the Visitors Center this Thursday.
Friday we taught four more MRLs, with the J, G, M, D from Springville. Leaving all of them with the challenge to 1. set up their mormon.org profile, 2.invite a friend to see it. We are helping our members to do missionary work, so they can help us find people to teach, and we will have fellowship already in place when we begin to teach them.
Saturday we spent the first half of the day at our Stake Pioneer Day. It was a lot of fun, and we were able to set up a few lessons with members, and get to know the people of our stake and wards a little better. A few members in our ward were able to bring nonmember friends. We have to lessons from anyone that came, but it shows that our members are willing and ready to invite their friends.
Sunday was a great day, we set up two lessons with nonmembers for the comming week, one with K E, and the other with D S. We will meet with them both on Thursday this week. We finished the night with three MRLs in Springville, with the P, H, and J.
I am super excited for this week. We have another 17 lessons set, and two of our investigators that have been on vacation are back in town, so we should be able to meet with them. I hope to be able to hit 20 lessons again this week, and hopefully every week this transfer. It feels so good to teach a lot like that. It builds confidence, and helps to motivate you, because once you've done it once, you know that you can do it again.
I'm doing great. I have been writing in my journal everyday, and really trying to improve my prayers, and my studies. I have had a couple really great personaly studies this last week. Elder A and I are still getting along great, and I look forward to spending another transfer with him. We have been doing better on the morning schedule. We played soccer as a zone this morning, and then had a zone breakfast. We said our goodbyes to the elders leaving, and had a great time. We are going to do a lot better this transfer, and we have already started it off good. We have three lessons set up for tonight, so it should be a great day today.
Actually I do know Elder M. He trained Elder H, who came out with me, and when he found out that I was related to J, I became his favorite elder. He is a cool guy. Thats all I have time for today, tell everyone I love them, and I say hi. I got Julie's package. It was full of jello. So ramdom, but I loved it. Love you guys.
Elder Schultz
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