Well I am going to make it short this week. Like really short. But I am going to send a lot of pictures. Deal?
Okay. This week we had Mission Leader Council on Tuesday morning. It was pretty long. 8:00am to about 1:00pm....
Learned a lot though and am very excited about the changes I am making
and the changes that others in the mission are making to become better
disciples and even closer to the Savior in his work. Our mission is
heading in the right direction, I hope it continues to do so and can
accelerate to the goals and the vision that we have seen that the Lord
has for the Salt Lake City mission. Word.
We had zone meeting this week so Elder Lawrence and I
took some time to prepare for the training we would give. We made it
pretty fun and ridiculous, but memorable and I definitely learned a lot
from it so I hope the rest of the zone did as well. I will send
pictures of what we did. In brief explanation we drew a picture of a
mountain with our mission baptism goal by the end of the year at the top
and a little dude at the bottom and a bunch of obstacles he has to
overcome to get to the top and achieve his goal. Here are the obstacles
and the solutions.
1) a fork in the path -> ask "old man rivers" which path to take (ask everyone we meet for referrals)
2) a pack of ravenous wolves -> call on the "Local Natives" to help you out. (work in unity with ward and stake leaders.)
3) "Ranger Rick" is laying beside the trail and needs CPR (Helping
our investigators gain a testimony through Church Prayer + Reading the
scriptures / spiritual CPR.)
4) Your friends are going down
the wrong path -> Quickly call them to come back (invite
investigators to follow Christ and be baptized EARLY in the teaching
process.)
5) There is a huge cliff and no way to get around it. ->
Miraculously giant eagles come and fly you across the gap! (Pray for and
expect miracles as you do the Lord's work.)
6) The Dragon
of doubt comes and tries to attack you and make you think it is
impossible to make it to the top. -> we use the weapon of Faith in
this case a crazy powerful light beam. (We use faith and believe we can
reach our goal to overcome all doubt.)
Hopefully you can see all that in the picture. The
point is that as we do all the principles in parenthesis we will
increase in convert baptisms and achieve our mission goal of 750 baptism
by the end of the year. pretty sick. :)
The other part of our training we focused in on working
in unity with ward and stake leaders and had each companionship work
together, the person in front could not use their arms but could see
what was going on and the person behind was the arms and hands but
couldn't see. We had them make brownie sundaes. It was fun. I'll send
a picture of that too. The idea there is that the ward and stake
leaders here are the people in front. They can see what is happening in
the area and hear everything and know what needs to happen. The
missionaries are the arms and hands. We are the work force. We can't
always see the whole picture and know what needs to happen but as we
listen to our ward and stake leaders we can make miracles happen. And
make some pretty good ice cream sundaes :) If we don't listen and heed
their counsel then things go a little differently. It makes quite the
mess. :P
So that was our training. I liked it. :)
So much for this being a short email...... Anyways. Other than that we
just taught a lot of lessons. Had everyone come to church! :) It was
such a blessing and we found a new family with a unbaptized child that
is eager to be baptized. They have a very cool story. He is preparing
for the 24th. It was funny, before we went into the lesson we planned
on inviting him for the 17th of August. But literally as I was inviting him the spirit told me to say the 24th of August instead.
It turns out that weekend is the weekend that his sister will be in
town and that is what they were hoping for as well. Just little
miracles like that make me happy. :) The church is true.
We gave a youth lesson yesterday and spoke in a
sacrament meeting. The ward we spoke in was the Farmington Ranches 2nd
ward. I am pretty sure I spoke 1 year ago in that ward! ha ha I got to
see some of the people that got baptized while I was here last year and
one lady is going to the temple! Her name is Tiffany Montgomery. She
is receiving her endowment on the 28th of August.
We are probably going to get to go with them as well. :) They invited
us and I am so excited to see her take this step! :) What a blessing it
is to be a missionary. The best time of my life. I love teaching and
sharing the gospel.
Well I have rambled on long enough. I love you all! I miss you and hope everything is well.
Have a good week! I know we will. :)
Godspeed.
-Elder Hansen
Peak the Strategy
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