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| Zone Training |
Hello Folks! As you can see, Ældste Metcalf took some
liberties in writing the title for this email.
This week has just been too much fun. Ældste Metcalf and
I have been having a blast, but we've also been working the hardest I've ever
worked on my mission. I can honestly say that we gave it everything we had this
past week and we are tired! However, we have seen miracles and our area is
about to get really busy. Even though we're tired, it's been so worth it and
we're ready to give another week of hard work to find even more people to
teach. We've set as a goal to become "consecrated missionaries," the
kind of missionaries that God can trust with any task and knows that we will do
everything we can to bring souls unto Him. We're not close to that or where we
want to be, but we are working our hardest to get a little closer to that goal.
But before we begin on my week, you asked some questions!
I've tried a lot of those recipes that you gave me and I
really appreciate them! I haven't been able to find shredded beef or corn
tortillas here, though, so I haven't made tacos yet. But I'm also willing to
try some new recipes as well! I also haven't seen Ældste Daw yet. He's actually
and Iceland Elder so he's not even in Denmark! But he'll be coming to Elder
Bednar here on Saturday so hopefully he brings it then!
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| Elder Bednar |
We all are so excited to meet Elder Bednar on Saturday. He's
given us all 3 talks that we need to study before we get there so you can
already tell that he is going to be talking a bit on "Faith." We're
excited to meet him!
As soon as we got Ældste Metcalf moved in last Monday the
very first thing we started talking about was things we needed to change and do
better in the zone. We've brainstormed a ton of new ideas that we're excited to
try, and we are especially excited to be more involved with the members of our
zone and their interests, needs, and concerns.
There have been 4 big things that we've done this past
week to find more potentials and new investigators. We've seen a quite of bit
of success from it. I'm sure we won't do exactly the same things this week, but
we saw some miracles come out of them.
1. Work with the members.
2. Find effective finding activities for the morning
hours
3. Previous Investigators/Potentials
4. Knocking from 3-5:00
Elder Metcalf and I have really put a focus on members
this last week. We have had a lot of great experiences with many of them, but
one of the many miracles was an opportunity to teach a members brother. Ældste
Metcalf and I wanted to visit Lisa and Chris Perkins in our ward, but when we
got there that evening they weren't home. We talked a little bit about our next
destination, couldn't really decide on what we wanted to do next, and decided
to just start biking. Right when we were leaving though, they came home! And
not by themselves, but Lisa's non-member brother had just moved in to their
apartment to live with them for the next few months. They invited us in, and
after talking to them for a little bit Lisa asked if we could give the first
lesson to her brother. It was a very spiritual lesson, and even though he has a
lot of concerns about religion in general you could see a lot of the things we
talked about really touched him. So that was a great example of members being
there to help us find new investigators!
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| The whole Copenhagen, Denmark Mission |
We're still trying to find really effective things to do
in the mornings since nobody is really home, but we decided to go to the richest
homes in our area and try to find au pairs that are taking care of the homes at
that time. Most of them are from the Philippines, and therefore are very
religious. We actually have found a few potentials from that and hope to set up
appointments with those au pairs!
We found a new investigator this week from an old
potential that was written in our records from 2011. She is a Filipino au pair.
She was the first person that we tried our 15 minute lesson with and it turned
out fantastic! The Spirit was strong and we were able to set up a follow up
appointment very easily with her since we weren't taking up too much of her
time. It really looks like these 15 minute lessons are going to help a lot.
A few months ago, President Sederholm said that in his
son's mission they had to knock from the hours of 4-6 or something like that, I
can't remember exactly when. But Ældste Metcalf and I decided to try a similar
thing since we really needed new investigators. Every day this past week, when
possible, we went and knocked from 3-5:00 since Danes tend to get off of work
earlier. We've found quite a lot of potential investigators, made some follow
up appointments, and also knocked into a Religion/English Teacher that wants us
to come to her class and talk about religion! She just emailed us today and so
we're going to set it up with her when we're going to come and do that, so we
are really looking forward to a lot of these people the Lord has put in our way
to find.
The Sisters' investigator was baptized this last
Saturday. The Spirit was so strong and you could see the Sister Missionaries
loved her so much and were so happy to finally see her baptized. Apparently
there were some non-members that sound like they really want to learn more, so
that will be fun to see where that leads. Right after the baptism we visited a
less-active friend and he really opened up to us about religion and some of the
obstacles that have keeping him from coming to church. We're going to get him
some home-teachers because he said that would be nice. Hopefully we'll get him
to church soon!
That's all I have time for this week! I'm apologizing now
that I haven't taken any pictures this week...I'll take some for sure before
next time! Remember that I love you and pray for you every day!
Med Kærlig Hilsen, [Love
from]
-Ældste Wawro
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