17 Now the joy of Ammon was so
great even that he was full; yea, he was swallowed up in the joy of his
God, even to the exhausting of his
strength; and he fell again to the earth.
Hello! from the other side of the world!
Things are great here in the mission. Teaching a TON... constantly on
the run... but thats what makes it fun..... RHYME......... no more
rhyming and I mean it! Anybody wanna peanut?
Bueno.. :) Yeah things are
great. We get to our apartment everynight suuper exhausted almost not
wanting to do planning, just ready to jump in bed. We wake up with energy
pumped for the people we are going to visit and the lessons we´re gonna
teach. Its great. Its how the work should be! We are teaching on
average, 3-4ish lessons a day. And its interesting.. in the last two
weeks, we have taught 48 lessons... in 45 of those 48 lessons, members
have been involved. I´ll explain it to you....... many think, as
well I as I have always thought, that "missionary work" is going to
those who don´t know about the church to help them to know more about
the church (aka knocking doors, talking in the streets, etc.). What I
have realized in the mission especially recently, is that the mission is
a lot more productive and you have LONGER LASTING SUCCESS when you work
with those that already know about the church to take initiative and
act on what they know. The majority of those that already have knowledge
about the church have learned it through friends or family that are
members. We use those same members in our lessons to teach their
friends, but also to help build the member´s testimonies and teaching
abilities. 45 of our 48 lessons this last two weeks have had to do with
members because we visit less actives, recent converts, part member
families, and we bring members to the houses of the non members. We
actually rarely visit houses of all active going members. We obviously
can if we want, but there are more productive ways to work. Its fun to
compare and combine experience in the companionship because we always
come out knowing a little bit more than we knew before we met. I'm learning a lot from Elder Blanch... How to work with the members
effectively being one of those things.
WE HAD A BAPTISM YESTERDAY!
:P an awesome guy named J! It was a guy they were teaching here in
this area when I got here. He´s an awesome country guy that lives waaaay
waay out in these little ranches with his mom, his wife and her mom.
His wife was less active and that's how they found him and she has since
been reactivated and he was baptized yesterday afternoon! (see the
fruits of working with the members??? ... baptizing the husband, re-activating his wife... and now
J´s mom wants to be baptized... :)
Mom! ¡No te des por vencida! Don´t give up! :) If I could only tell
you how many times I have drawn completely blank trying to answer people
or even understand them! That´s what harder for me.. understanding
everything.. but anyways, just keep going. Little by little. Just try to
constantly be thinking Spanish. Say what you can say in spanish. for
example, a recent convert here in this ward knows ONE WORD of
english...... and she LOVES saying it! "YES. YES! YES!" She knows the word
"yes" and she loves saying it! its hilarious. She is a great example to
me of being grateful for what I have and know instead of being sad about
what I don´t know. She is amazing!
Anyways, I have writen a lot
of blaa nada but its alright. I hope I´ve gotten my message through. I
love you all and I will see you all soon enough! Go be missionaries!
Love you! -Elder Norton
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