This week was pretty awesome, the other day in my
district meeting i talked about the importance of References to my
missionaries. (Actually i could spend a whole email talking about being
in charge of District meetings its super awesome) (It was my first
official time teaching a District meeting too!!! Every other while while
i was a leader it was a meeting with an Apostal or the mission
President''
But real quick for those of you who dont know what a district
meeting is its a meeting that all missionaries have ever week that is
about 2 hours long. And The district leader is in charge of talking to
the district about the strong points of the week, and then places were
we can improve, and then uses to next hour and a half giving a class to
the missionaries about something specific that they can do this week to
do better. And there is normally different short practice teachings and
stuff like that. And Shoot i do not think that 2 hours is time to
teach enough. Granted The missionaries would not focus very well if it
was much longer. But i planned to teach my class about 3 different
topics . Talking with Everyone. Asking References. And Baptism
Invitations. But i only had enough time to teach about the first two.
And oh my gosh i wanted to have more time but i dont haha
But Anyway I taught alot about References, and put a huge focus on
how important it is that we ask for references from Everybody. And
Sunday night when all of my missionaries called me to give me their
numbers I was super impressed with mostly everything they gave me, and i
will talk about that a little more in a little bit. But after i got the
numbers from everyone i had to call my Zone Leaders to pass them the
numbers of my district. And when i got to the part of References Received
and Contacted i told him the number ( i wont say what it is. But i said
it, and my leader said ``Hold up did you just say X. Received, and X, contacted.´´ And i said yes i did. And my zone leader said (they were in
my meeting so they know that i talked about references)
``Elder
Crockett I have never seen so many references before in my life. That is
awesome to see that your missionaries are listening to what you have to
say, because this is incredible. How do you feel?´´ And i replied
``Well, i really like that we have so much references, but we have only
contacted a fourth of them, and we have no excuse to leave so many
references just hanging around there. Im going to have to talk to my
missionaries again to get them to start contacting them because they
must not have understood well enough when i taught them´´ And they were
shocked at my reply thinking i was going to say that i felt awesome and
that i was super happy for my district.
Dont get me wrong i am
super Psyched for them they are going to have so many new people to
teach this week, and in my District meeting tomorrow i am going to congratulate ever one of them, and i`ll probably even bring in Cookies
or something to Celebrate a little bit, but we can do better, and
tomorrow they are going find that our too. But with Love hahaha
But after i talked to the leaders i decided to add up all the
numbers of the references we received in the past month. And just so you
know every companion has received at least one reference every week, most
of them more that 1. And the number of references Received and Contacted
for the entire last month was 8 times less than what we received and contacted in this last week alone. And here i am preparing a meeting to get them to realize, that even
though they are Incredible missionaries, and are Honestly Working a ton
of Miracles in their Areas, that they can be better. I have a lot of
expectacions for my missionaries hahaha
Ok Earlier i mentioned about how i was impressed with all of their
numbers. And from what my missionaries told me (just so you know i am
doing to same things that i am telling my missionaries to do, and i am
seeing the same miracles that the are telling me that they are seeing)
my missionaries told me that as soon as they started asking references
from every one that the members that they asked got really excited to
start to leave with them to teach, and so not only did we have a ton of
references, the members left with everyone alot more than normal as
well, so we started to teach more than twice as much as we had last week
with members, and so they have been finding a ton of new people to
teach, and when they are not leaving with the members have a big focus on
finding even more people teaching them, and asking them for more
references.
And so here we are with more work than we even know what to
do with. In my personal area, i have had too many set appointments that
it was physically impossible to teach all of them when they wanted us
too, and so my companion and i are having to (or forced to, you could
say) to leave on splits for the entire day so that we could teach all
the people that we needed to. That was actually kind of hard because
members dont have time to go around with the missionaries all day long,
but that is a story for a different day haha.
Sadly i personally have only had the time to contact half of the
references we received, and so i need to pick up my game, and get around
to contacting the references that i still have, and thats really saying
something because i have a ton left haha.
The favorite reference that i received, i went to teach her with a
member, and i invited her to get baptized on the 28th of March, (in
three weeks, because i have another investigator who turn 18 on the
18th, and wanted to get baptized on her birthday. And so i thought i
would just save time and invite her to get baptized the same day as the
other girl) and she said to me ``No the 28th is too soon. I want to get baptized in April, when is the next baptism serving you are preparing?´´
And i said ``The next one we have in April 11th´´ And before i had time
to finish invited her to be baptized on that day she cut me off and
said, Yes thats perfect, i will bet baptized on the 11th´´ And so then i reassured her that we were going to keep teaching her to help her feel
ready to get baptized when that day comes by. But she already seemed
pretty set on her decision haha.
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