I have gotten so serious about my goals now my companion prays vocally about my goals too.
I
still don't know what to do with Atheists yet, I only knock into a
small amount of them, any tips from online or your missions on what to
do in that situation. Because I have never seen success from what I do
(which I learned from other misisonaries) which is a good indication
that I don't use a correct principal.
I have been reading the
power of the everyday missionary alot this week. Our mission approved
it and gave us all copies this week, i am at pg 100 somethin. I like
it alot because I have been trying to think of how I will continue
missionary work back home and I could easily keep it up or even be more
effective of a missionary than I am now by living by those principals.
Because one of the big things about me going on a mission was I knew
there was no other place I would be able to learn missionary skills near
as well as here and I have always had desires to do missionary work but
never had the skill and because of that I had fears and hesitated to do
so. That and as I have talked to a whole bunch of missionaries on my
mission I have always heard them say " oh when I get home I will go out
with the missionaries every week...Give them rides... feed them every
month..." I just think, "Yah, what ever! you'll probably do that for
like a month if that". So in my case I don't want to do that, I would
much rather find people for the missionarys to teach, so they help me
with my goal of helping as many people join the church as years I live.
Thats one of the reasons why I am still seeking knowledge about
missionary work that I don't have because these are the last few weeks
where I can practice it for hours a day.
This week we
had a lesson with our investigator. Turns out I caught all 151
pokemon, He caught all 151 pokemon, and my companion caught every
pokemon that has been created (which all of which don't exist except the
original 151 =p, but yet he caught all like 900). Who knew that 3
pokemon masters would have been brought together like that!
My
zone leaders had breakfast and studied with us this morning since we
are having a zone pday today. We got talking and one of them started to
try and convince me that I shouldn't do Family History in Finding... Oh I
flipped a biscuit hard! (People in this zone use "flip a biscuit" in
their vocabulary and none of them heard it from me!!! One of my
companions must have rubbed off on some one and it spread. I was shocked
when I heard like 3 people use it in common conversations. None of them
whipped out a frying pan like your saposed to but still!) I "bashed"
him to pieces on that subject (only i didn't bash, I never bash, I
instead taught him of how it is a correct principal every missionary
needs to live, created a need for it, and then showed him the
blessings, and testifies of all the many miracles we've seen from it)
there was no "putting me into my place" after that! =p
My
goal is going well. It's been hard because now all of my investigators
are going through tribulation. One is loosing her house, I found out
that they won't make her move for 6 months though so she will be here
for her baptism. Another is being persecuted by family and coworkers, one of
his friends died (it's scary how much I see that one come up when
people are on the path to turning their testimony to being converted). One got a new job where she makes jewelry, and while she makes
jewelry her company brings in preachers to speak to them all, she is
kinda forced to listen to it all, her phone broke, work holds her late
which keeps causing her to miss our appointments.
We
have a investigator who really wants to be baptized but there is
no way he will pass the interview... Doesn't believe in God
consistantly, one appointment he will, the next he wont; doesn't believe
In Jesus or joseph smith...... He has felt the spirit several times and
I have helped him recognize it during lesson but he keeps forgetting it
and almost pretending like he hasn't felt the spirit. He almost
pretends to act nobel and says he will act in faith by being baptized so
he can have a great spiritual witness after....I got so ticked off our
last lesson, I kept telling him I wont baptize him and he wont pass his
interview. He finished the whole book of mormon and has prayed to know
if it was true the whole time. He just doesn't accept that he has felt
the spirit. But forget my goal (in his case), I don't wanna be the
shmeep that baptizes some who will never be active in their life just
for a number.
Please pray for my goal and my investigators.
If
I don't accomplish my goal now on my mission, I believe that it is
still possible to accomplish it and probably will be accomplished by my
companion. But i worry about that because I can't have influence on
that.
Well I gotta go Bye i love you!
have a good day!
Don't get shot!
Or stung in the eye!
--
- Elder Truman Rex Crockett
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