This week we had a lot of random fun adventures and random
experiences so it was a good week. The first one came from Tuesday
night when we contacted this really young, struggling mother that was
with her kids. She told us about all the bad things that were going on
and how she was raising them by herself and didn't have money to pay
for everything they needed and was just very discouraged. It was
really powerful as Elder Kemp and I taught and testified of the
atonement to her. Then Elder Kemp noticed a spider about the size of a
dollar coin right behind her and her little kid playing next to it. It
was funny as we had to move our conversation away from this big spider
but she was really cool.
This week I got to go to the doctors to have a check up on my poison
oak and ended up learning a lot about headaches, canker sores, and two
types of being lactose intolerant. That night we had a cool lesson
with a part member family about the Book of Mormon. We have really
been struggling to help people keep their commitments lately and
actually finding people willing to act. But this last week for
district meeting we focused on our own finding efforts and building
the faith to find. Now this week we are going to be focusing on using
to members to really find those who are prepared. During Elder Kemps
training follow up this week president talk about finding through less
actives and recent converts. He said they are the "gold mines" for
finding. I really think that was inspired so we got a list of all the
less actives in the ward and are going to go find them. President
Taggart also shared with us that we should tell them that we are in
training and need practice teaching the lessons. As we teach them they
will feel the spirit and know who we can visit to share the gospel
with. The problem with finding through active members is that most of
them have tried sharing the gospel with most of their friends and
family and so it can be hard to find people to teach from them but
that the less active and recent converts have many non-member friends
really to receive the gospel.
On Sunday we had some fun experiences. Nobody came to church but we
saw some awesome growth in some of the recent converts. Our ward
mission leader, who was baptized a year ago, gave the gospel
principles lesson and although it started out choppy he learned a lot
from it and by the end he finished really well. Then his brother that
was baptized in June gave the priesthood lesson. It was probably the
best priesthood lesson on the plan of salvation I have been a part of.
It is amazing to see how a real understand of the plan of salvation
really can change everything about a person. It made me excited to go
help others come to an understanding of the plan that our Heavenly
Father has for each one of us. That night it was really hot as we were
walking along a busy street when a car drove by and chucked a thing of
ice at us. It was nice of them because it was so hot. Haha after that
we visited one of our investigators and he said he had been reading
the Book of Mormon during his lunch hour and really likes it. Then we
hear a loud "come and visit the D.I." From the t.v. and it caught us
off guard. We kept talking to him about his reading when he pointed us
to the t.v. Talking about the show he was watching about a young man
who had a vision. He was watching The Work and the Glory! It was so
amazing that he had stumbled upon the BYU channel and was loving the
show. It's a great lead into talking about the restoration and just
made my day. :D
I love you all and I know that the church that we represent is
guided by Jesus Christ himself. We went over the statistics of convert
baptisms over the past few years and about 14 years ago Gordon B.
Hinckley said that through member missionary work we could double the
300ish thousand that were baptized that year. Since we have only
passed 300,000 one other time. I know that it's through the members
that we can reach his goal for us.People are being prepared everywhere
in the world and if we do our part as missionaries and members I know
that the prophetic promise that was given by President Gordon B.
Hinckley that we can have 600,000 baptisms in a year. Keep up the
great work of salvation!
Love,
Elder Hyde
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