Falling in Reverse - 04/15/13

Well, we are halfway through the transfer, and halfway through the month of April. We may not meet our zone goal of having every companionship baptize in the month of April. But I'm pretty sure we will baptize our petite Mexican friend before transfer calls! She wants to get baptized at 5pm on Cinco de Mayo. Transfers are the sixth. So I may not see the confirmation, but I'm pretty sure she's going to make her baptism date. She's made up her mind, and I don't think we could talk her out of it if we tried. But our last four baptismal dates didn't culminate in baptisms, so I can't make any promises.

Being a district leader is fun. It's also more work than I originally anticipated. But we had a district leader meeting that really helped a lot, I enjoyed the training a ton. I'm super motivated about this coming up district meeting! Being on top of things and planning effectively makes me happy.

Lots of things weren't as well-planned as I'd like them to be. We totally spaced on our correlation meeting, for one, and that made us seem super irresponsible to our Ward Mission Leader and the other ward missionaries. But we've been giving him daily text reports, now, which kind of stopped when Coleman left, and I'm happy to start it up again. We were rewarded for our diligence with cookies from Sister "C".  And I hope to not let them down again in the near future.

Well, other than the random baptism out of the blue, things were more or less business as usual. We felt like our week wasn't as productive as it could have been, in terms of investigator lessons, but we taught 18 lessons total, which is better than this area has done in a long time. We're shooting for 20 lessons this week, 7 of which will be to investigators with a member present. We haven't missed a single day of 20 contacts since "J" got here, which is also a large improvement. All in all, things are looking up. I wish I wasn't so hard on myself! One of our ward missionaries told me I was very considerate of other people, but I underestimate myself. Maybe that's a good thing that I'm so humble, but I really need to work on having faith in my calling as a chosen representative of Jesus Christ. I may be inadequate, but with the Spirit, I can do the job that I have been set apart to do.

I found a ton of really good talks and leadership material with the Los Alamos Elders at their apartment. My favorite talk so far was given by Jeffrey R Holland in January of 1988, just before I arrived on this earth. It's called "Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments." It's so beautiful. I'm not sure how effective I would be at trying to incorporate those concepts into my Law of Chastity lessons, but I can try.

I love you guys! Have a wonderful week.