HOLA AMIGOS!
As you know I am now in the Scottsdale mission and we just met our new Mission President and his wife, President and Sister Sweeney! they are amazing!
So we are going to get a whole new set of rules and more missionaries! which i might be training once i am done with my training. All new missionaries go through a twelve week training program, which really helps a lot, in it we practice how to teach simply, practice lessons, practice teach testify and inviting in less than five minutes, learn how to use the scriptures when teaching, which i think is one of my strongest skills as a missionary, but there is so much more than that to be an effective missionary!!, and many other fun things like watching the district, oh and how we can help members with their missionary work, and guess what! planning only took three and a half hours last week! so awesome for me because i really did not like daily planning and weekly planning was way too long for me. However, last Friday went really smooth, planning for all our investigators and what we are going to go teach them that week,yay its so good.
WOw it's a huge job to train a new missionary, we need patience and I'm sort of nervous, yet excited to train, if i train.
ok here are some stories of some of the families/ people we are teaching: D
the Vegamonje family: She loves us coming over to give her a hand with teaching her three children about God and Jesus and how to keep the commandments and we use lots of props when we teach them so that the kids will pay more attention, we also use the Gospel Art book, it is super handy! they are super smart children. We originally started teaching her husband and he knows that Joseph smith was a Prophet, but he and his wife want to keep going to the other church because he says i feel like i would just be leaving God for God if i switch religions. Really? and we taught them the restoration with and emphasize on the Priesthood authority and they believe its true.
one time we went over to their house to teach them all, but her husband was in t he living room drinking beer with her dad while the kids were playing. So,we were in the kitchen teaching her only because and it was a disaster in the living room later, the member that was suppose to meet us there was half hour late! and on top of that she brought all her kids and her husband and our dear investigator was thrown off guard when all these people started showing up out of nowhere. it was pretty extreme. We did have a nice lesson with her and the member about The Family: A Proclamation to the World
which we all enjoyed and felt peace despite everything else. :) I know you are all smart enough to not let this happen in you member missionary efforts,my Mexican brothers and sisters are a little crazy so it's not to surprising that that happened.Its one of those stories where you look back at it and it is just to funny. We love this family and we are still serving this family a lot by teaching the little ones English and just showing our love for them, hopefully they will soften their hearts and come to the Visitors Center with us!
Don't worry we have already taught hem the Plan of Happiness.
Mary: her baby daddy just got thrown in jail and is waiting to be deported: so we went over and gave her comfort and she just has so much to worry about now, such as how is she h=going to afford her place and her child, who will take care of her, care payments and her father isn't here anymore and she doesn't have the knowledge of the gospel. This one is one that has been hard to find home, prior to this incident we taught her part one of the plan of salvation, and when we were going to teach her the rest that's when we found out about this. We invited her to a baptism and she went with her best friend, and all the members were super nice and that made me so happy. I was happy that they accepted that invitation from Christ to go to the baptism it reminds me of this scripture:
16 For behold, the aSpirit of Christ is given to every bman, that he may cknow good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; for every thing which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God.
I love her and its so hard to go through these difficult situations, but i know that as we help her develop her faith and accept Christ she will feel as though her burdens seem light and He can strengthen her to overcome these things.
Marlen and Liz ( 8 & 10 yrs old) they are the daughters of a less active women. We just finally started teaching them because we were busy helping them move to a different house. They are so cute and i love teaching children because they are so humble and it helps me teach simply and i want whats best for them!
well gotta go everyone thank you for the letters and the emails love you all!
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