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Finishing Up in The Office |
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August 10, 2001:
Strange things in the workings..... The beginning of this week carried w/ it a interesting conversation. Pres. Jensen, after going over the weekly report w/ us, started talking to us about transfers. (in 2 weeks) He mentioned a few interesting possibilities.
The situation is this: I go home on the next transfer (Oct 3) and Elder Ditto (sucks) oops - goes home on the next (Nov. 15) Here were the possibilities Pres. Jensen mentioned: First he said IF one of us leaves, he would make us trainers, which means being blown into a city... For me, that would be 6 weeks w/ a new missionary in a new city. Elder Ditto hasn't trained yet, and if he left, he would have 3 months to train a new missionary in a new city. All of these options affect the experience and training of our eventual replacements. It's a tough decision and I'm anxious to see what happens.
2 INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS:
We happened upon what, for me, is a breakthrough in member work. The funny thing is that it makes total sense.
We were meeting with the Rosa family - (The coolest family in the world) and we wanted to help them w/ their missionary work. We started off the spiritual thought asking them to make a list of friends (the traditional over-used missionary technique) They immediately started groaning and complaining - throwing out every excuse in the book. We were quickly going down in flames. We didn't know what to do - our plan was failing and they weren't getting excited about sharing the gospel.
Finally, Elder Ditto had a stroke of genius. He said that their insuccess was OUR fault, because we hadn't really trained them. They seemed to agree that they just didn't really know HOW to do miss. work. So then we threw out some ideas about training them in specific areas like, how to give a BoM, how to invite someone to FHE, how to welcome someone in church, etc... They dug it and started getting excited about it.
We finally decided to meet together every week, one week to do training, and the next week to do scambi - to go out and put it into practice. They loved the idea because it was new & fresh.
What I learned is that members [unfinished] |
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