Tracting

So this week was super awesome. Earlier in the week my companion and i were talking about our investigators, and we realized that when they get baptized the missionaries that are going to be here in a couple months (after us) are not going to have ANYONE to teach. Because out of everyone that i was teaching with Elder Silva, some of them got baptized, we´ve dropped others, and the few that we are still teaching are going to get baptized and so there would be no one for the missionaries after us. So we decided that we needed to find new people.

So at the beginning of the week we started making our plans so we would spend less time teaching so we could have more time to do contacts and find new people. So we werent teaching as much, but every moment we werent teaching someone we where knocking doors or talking to people in the street. And that first day yes we met a bunch of new people, but it was not exactly the best spent time in the world because we spent most of the day getting doors slammed in our face. 

And so the next day we tried a different tactic to find new people, and that was visiting members and asking for references. And whenever we would pass by the house of a member we would teach them, and then ask for references. But It appears that they didnt understand the whole message of the special conference we had ´´The work of Salvation`` which was dedicated to members working with the missionaries. But we spent al day doing that but didnt get out with anything.

So the next morning we were in our companionship study talking about what we could do to find new people, and we decided tat we just needed to keep knocking doors, because the members arent helping at all. But we realized that we needed to change our tactics. So we set a goal to teach at least 2 full lessons in the street that day. That means that we would have to do contacts and start teaching right away, and if they didnt reject us, keep teaching. And so we went out work, and our entire plans was only this. So we went around and just started teaching everybody in the street. And it was incredible. There was SO MANY PEOPLE who actually listened to us. I have never taught more in one day in my entire mission. We taught so much. And then was we were walking down the street i just made sure that i did every single thing that popped into my head just because generally when the Holy Ghost speaks to me, its just in thoughts (I almost never get that warm fuzzy feeling thing) and i wanted to do literally everything that God wanted me to do so i just did everything that popped into my head, and just trusted that He would make sure that i didnt get any stupid ideas. And that worked too because literally every time a thought came into my head about something to do (even if it was like buy a chocolate) we always found someone new to teach. It was super awesome!

We went home that day super happy because we found so many people to teach. but we decided that we stil wanted more people. So the next morning we decided that we were going to do the same thing, combined with visiting less active members (random fact i normally prefer visiting less active members, that the active ones because they generally understand the role that missionaries play in helping people) And it was awesome, because literally with every less active member we visited every single one of them had a friend over who wasnt a member, so we just taught their friends, and that was awesome, because even though the less active members dont always go to church whenever they bore their testimony it was super sincere. So we found a ton of people that day like that. And its awesome because now some of the less active members want to come back to church because they want to help their friends get baptized.

And so we went around all week just teaching every single person that there is. And wow we found so many new people to teach. And now we are working in a part of the city that i almost never visited with Elder Silva, because we never had anyone to teach there, but ever sense Elder Dominguez and i took a ton of time dedicated to finding new people who arent already in the Area Book. And its awesome. Now i am positive that a ton of these people are going to get baptized. I may not be around to do it, maybe yes, hopefully yes haha, but i know alot of them will.

People always say that Knocking Doors is the least effective way to do missionary work. I have something to say to them. ``You`re Wrong!´´ hahahaha Thats an excuse lazy missionaries use because they are afraid to talk with everyone. I`ve found more people in just this one week dedicated to knocking doors than i have in my entire mission from references. Now talking about references they are awesome. I love references, when you have a good reference it is so much easier to teach them. And there is some statistic that 1 out of 22 references gets baptized, but only 1 out of ever 1000 something people met by knocking doors gets baptized. And yes it makes sense. I was rejected alot more times than i´ve had people listen to us this last week. Some of which were incredibly rude. but for all you future missionaries out there when the members wont work with you you`ve just got to do it the old fashion way. Because God is always preparing someone to get baptized. And if the members wont tell you who it is, you just got to find them yourself haha

Welp love you all. Give references to the missionaries haha