"Can you feel that?" blubbered the man as we held hands in a circle together. "That is the feeling of a man of good moral standing...". It was his birthday. He was really, really, really tipsy, and I tried really, really, really hard not to laugh at the irony of it all.
It was still an awesome week though!!!
We have been working so hard with the members recently! We have pushed and pushed to get into their homes and we have come up with a win, win, win situation for everyone! Needless to say it was the spirit that brought this to mind as I was studying it for district meeting this past week, but miracles have, needless to say have occurred!
The training was really focused on learning and serving in the church, and there was a section that was all focused on home and visiting teaching. Every area that I have served in has been, let’s just say a little low on their home and visiting teaching stats. And then another problem came to mind at the same time as I was studying and that was that there are very few referrals as well. Well, we have come up with a super awesome lesson plan that addresses both of those problems so that we can get this ward "convert ready." We go in and help the members first off recognize the impact it has, kind of get after them in a way if they are not doing their home and visiting teaching and invite them to repent, while at the same time we teach about referrals and the importance of hem...Altogether we commit them to do their HT/VT as well as find a referral for us in their individual stewardships! Bishop was on board and many other members and we are excited to see where this will take us! We also took the initiative that very night of district meeting to call through at least 10 members. Many of us have had return appointments with them! We are also tag teaming with the sisters, and even though we have to start from the bottom, we will get this ward convert ready faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!! Just dont say it too fast haha!
Progression in our investigators has come about slowly but surely as well! Some road blocks have been place on our baptismal date with Emanuel because his parents back home are against him doing such a thing. We are determined to meet with him this week and see if we can figure something out.
Wayne is coming along slowly but surely! Getting him to church is another ordeal that is hard to deal with but his testimony in the Book of Mormon is going to be building really quickly! We have set up times at the most unproductive time of the day, as well as at time that we can combine it with lunch, so that we could read one chapter of the Book of Mormon with him over the phone. We have taught him the basics, and now we are just doing everything we can to make it possible for him to receive a witness that this book is just so true! Monday, Wednesday and Friday we do this and in between he reads on his own time! This is a test run so we will see how it goes!
We were also able to have a miracle this week! A couple transfers ago I made the conscious decision to put every number in the area book into our phone that were potentials. For weeks on end I have been texting and calling with every spare moment that there is and we FINALLY saw a miracle from it! After mass texting everyone we get a text back from this guy named Mitchell! Turns out he has had numerous experiences with the missionaries and they have all been positive! We taught the restoration and it all made perfect sense to him! He is a great guy with a great heart that is going to be passed off to YSA! Elder Melus and I both walked away from that lesson with full confidence that he will get baptized.
So altogether it was another great week! We work hard and more often than not, all the miracles come at the end of the day! No matter what though, we are going to endure. We are going to get this ward "convert ready". And if I die here with no baptism, I am at least going to leave something behind for the next set, whoever they are.
Sure love and miss yall!
Love
Elder McCown
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