Nah we didn't really convert a scientologist...we don't actually know what he was, to be honest, but we met this guy on the street yesterday (in the snow) and had a good little discussion about natural law and truth. Nice guy. He didn’t want a copy of the Book of Mormon or lessons, but who knows, we might have planted a seed!
Anyway hello all. It snowed...again, and it should be all week. But Jeremy said that if it snowed hard enough he'd ride his snowmobile to the church this Saturday for his baptism, hahaha! and that was awesome to hear. It's awesome to see how excited he is, as well as Brian for next week. This week we got a bunch of stuff done for the baptisms and everything is set other than the Libby ward announced Brian's baptism about 4 hours later than when it will actually happen, so we've got to clear up that confusion still haha.
This week I also dodged a bullet! Elder Anderson made some teriyaki chicken that was pretty good but at about midnight I wake up to the sound of Elder Anderson throwing up in the bathroom (the noise he makes when he throws up can only be described as biblical). We had the same stuff but he was down for the count for a day with food poisoning and I ended up being fine.
Not a whole lot more to report on this week. I was on exchanges with the zone leaders so I wasn’t hear for Brian’s lesson but I will for sure have more to say next week for the baptisms!
Mom, you asked about thoughts on planning and time management on the mission for your mission prep class and about how we receive revelation for our investigators?
So receiving revelation for the individual is something that is being pushed pretty hard right now. Do you know of, or have you seen the new "how do I fulfill my purpose as a missionary" section of PMG? It may be just for technology missions but it talks about a new way to plan for investigators. It used to be you kinda clustered your investigators based on where they were at and planned for the cluster. But now they want us to plan for the investigator individually. Let me know, I could send you some pics of the pages but I thought it was pretty good. You basically plan for an individual (or anything really) by doing three things: set a goal, make a plan to achieve that goal, and then schedule. Goal, plan, schedule. What, how, when. This helped me understand that there is a big difference between planning and scheduling. President said something about how most missionaries are 20% planning missionaries and 80% scheduling missionaries and it should be flipped around. This can be applied to finding as well, and how to make the best use of time. Lots of times out here we have nobody to teach that day so we want to go find a new investigator. A bad example of "planning" would be to say we're going to go tract for 2 hours, or we're going to go see if we can find this person. That's scheduling, not planning. When you plan you set a goal, specifically, of what you want to do…like share such and such with a certain amount of people. Have a specific thing you want to do or have happen, plan out how you will do that, and then at the end schedule when and where you will do this. This way you're focused and acting on something specific instead of just walking around hoping something happens. Does that make sense?
Love to all until next time.
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