Obviously
of note is Prisca. We continue to push to have her baptized this coming
Sunday. We would have had her interviewed for baptism yesterday, but
she wasn't available on that day so we set for this Wednesday. It was
fortunate that we did though as we haven't yet taught all the things she
needs to know prior to her interview. We taught her three times all of
last week making sure she knows of the commandments she will need to be
keeping. Prisca has been one of those investigators that you know are
serious about their commitments. To my memory for all of these past few
lessons she has kept the assignments that we given her. That is usually a
good indicator for one's conversion.
This
week we also did some tracting and we had some better results. We have a
couple of return appointments set up, so our fingers are crossed. One
of the contacts that we made was named Francis, and we were able to
spend several minutes just standing at the gate with him teaching a
condensed version about the Restoration. I even made mention about
Joseph Smith which was really good as one of my weaknesses is that I'm
not bold enough with teaching all of our doctrine at the start of a
lesson, such as Joseph Smith and the first vision. I usually want to
ease people into things so that there's some proper understanding on the
investigator's end, but I've realized that when you go out there and
really teach what makes our faith so unique, you don't beat around the
bush anymore. The people who you talk to really know what you believe
and what you escape, not some vague and blurry idea of what it really
is.
This Saturday we finally
were able to teach Richard. Richard is an investigator of ours, but he
has been skittish so to speak about the appointments. Things always seem
to happen that keep us from meeting with him. The Fisks (one of the
senior couples here) are good friends with him though, and managed to
set an appointment with him on Saturday, to which they had us come
along. Our initial plan was to teach simply on the Book of Mormon, but
when we turned the time over to the Fisks for their turn on teaching
him, both of them really expounded much on the Restoration - and I will
say, in an eloquent way too - that we eventually became obligated to
teach them the whole Restoration. It was a really large contrast to see
our teaching style compared to the Fisks, and I think that comes with
age as well as years of experience and membership in the church. When me
and my companion taught, it was really brief and straight to the point
but the Fisks were ones who could really elaborate in detail effectively
and weave a bigger and broader picture of what the Restoration was and
what it really means, not just in generally but especially to themselves
on a much more personal level. It was quite a task to adjust to their
style of teaching, but all in all we taught a really good lesson.
Hoping
that we will baptize Prisca this Sunday. It would be a great way to
finish the month. If all goes well for our Zone, we as a zone may be
baptizing 28 (!) people in a single month. That would blow away all of
the other Zones' baptisms for this month.
Love you all always,
Elder Massey
No comments:
Post a Comment