So guess what I found out last Monday? The Internet at my
church building is completely unreliable.
Completely. I wrote and sent
this last week, and I guess it never actually got out. So look at this, you get
two emails from Elder Gifford this week! Yay! Or whatever exclamation you would
put on this. Love y'all!
This week has been wild. We attended a baptism for one of the Sister's investigators, now new-convert. We had exchanges. We had an investigator schedule an appointment with us instead of the other way around. We were consistently late to every meeting due to traffic. We learned the importance of leading by example. We tracted (housed) a ton, not out of the ordinary. We actually got a hold of one of our elusive less-active members. We got a new version of our planning application that looks exactly like the old one. We had pizza about a million times this week and didn't pay for a single slice. We got rebuked for not imposing on members to be fed more often. (Seems a little backwards, don't you think?)
The Baptism-
Jenn Haynes is the coolest convert ever. Elder W. had to interview her this week because he is the District Leader, so we had a chance to go over to her house and get to know her and her husband a little better. While we were there the Sister missionaries who taught her stopped by and were asking her if she would mind fellow-shipping an investigator they are teaching. Mind you, this woman isn't even a member yet, and she jumped on it. "I would love to! Just let me know when you are teaching her next and I would love to come!" It's harder to get members to come to lessons than it was to ask Jenn to come. She rocks, and she got baptized on Saturday, and confirmed on Sunday. I was asked to stand in the circle to confirm her, which is the first time I have ever done that, so it was a pretty great experience.
Dinner with Dottie-
We had an investigator text us on Thursday night and ask us if we would like to go to dinner with her Friday night. Like we are going to say no to that? The cool part is that she has been falling out of our investigator category because she always has a hard time keeping appointments, but here she is trying to get a hold of us to meet. Whoa right? We went and had dinner with her on Friday and we had a wonderful time, and we managed to teach her a short lesson about the importance of the Book of Mormon, even in the midst of a bustling restaurant. It was pretty great.
Leading by example-
Our ward is amazing. Really, they are. They have made it a ward goal to never let the missionaries feed themselves, and have been pushing it really well. However, there has been a slight disconnect. All of the leaders who were pushing so hard to have us fed every night, hadn't actually ever fed us..... So naturally the rest of the ward was super confused about why it was so important if they didn't feel it
was. So this week there was a large difference in the meal calendar, and it was all due to one tiny change. Each of those leaders signed up for a dinner appointment. After that, the ward realized they really thought it was important. Crazy how that works.
Out of that, the biggest thing I was you all to get is this. "Do as I say, not as I do" is bogus. That's all there is to it. In everything we do in life, people watch us. They watch us make good decisions and bad decisions. If we want good things for people around us, we need to be doing them ourselves. It's not enough to know how to receive blessings and tell someone to do it, we need to actually do it. So this next week I want you all to start leading by example. Make your decisions conscious of the fact that someone is watching you, because I guarantee they are.
I know that The Lord loves each of you personally.
I know that when we lead by example we are doing things the way that Christ would have us do them.
I know that this gospel is the only true way to find happiness in this life and eternal joy in the world to come.
I love you all.
The Church is true, your body is a Temple, DON'T DO DRUGS!
-Elder Logan Gifford
This week has been wild. We attended a baptism for one of the Sister's investigators, now new-convert. We had exchanges. We had an investigator schedule an appointment with us instead of the other way around. We were consistently late to every meeting due to traffic. We learned the importance of leading by example. We tracted (housed) a ton, not out of the ordinary. We actually got a hold of one of our elusive less-active members. We got a new version of our planning application that looks exactly like the old one. We had pizza about a million times this week and didn't pay for a single slice. We got rebuked for not imposing on members to be fed more often. (Seems a little backwards, don't you think?)
The Baptism-
Jenn Haynes is the coolest convert ever. Elder W. had to interview her this week because he is the District Leader, so we had a chance to go over to her house and get to know her and her husband a little better. While we were there the Sister missionaries who taught her stopped by and were asking her if she would mind fellow-shipping an investigator they are teaching. Mind you, this woman isn't even a member yet, and she jumped on it. "I would love to! Just let me know when you are teaching her next and I would love to come!" It's harder to get members to come to lessons than it was to ask Jenn to come. She rocks, and she got baptized on Saturday, and confirmed on Sunday. I was asked to stand in the circle to confirm her, which is the first time I have ever done that, so it was a pretty great experience.
Dinner with Dottie-
We had an investigator text us on Thursday night and ask us if we would like to go to dinner with her Friday night. Like we are going to say no to that? The cool part is that she has been falling out of our investigator category because she always has a hard time keeping appointments, but here she is trying to get a hold of us to meet. Whoa right? We went and had dinner with her on Friday and we had a wonderful time, and we managed to teach her a short lesson about the importance of the Book of Mormon, even in the midst of a bustling restaurant. It was pretty great.
Leading by example-
Our ward is amazing. Really, they are. They have made it a ward goal to never let the missionaries feed themselves, and have been pushing it really well. However, there has been a slight disconnect. All of the leaders who were pushing so hard to have us fed every night, hadn't actually ever fed us..... So naturally the rest of the ward was super confused about why it was so important if they didn't feel it
was. So this week there was a large difference in the meal calendar, and it was all due to one tiny change. Each of those leaders signed up for a dinner appointment. After that, the ward realized they really thought it was important. Crazy how that works.
Out of that, the biggest thing I was you all to get is this. "Do as I say, not as I do" is bogus. That's all there is to it. In everything we do in life, people watch us. They watch us make good decisions and bad decisions. If we want good things for people around us, we need to be doing them ourselves. It's not enough to know how to receive blessings and tell someone to do it, we need to actually do it. So this next week I want you all to start leading by example. Make your decisions conscious of the fact that someone is watching you, because I guarantee they are.
I know that The Lord loves each of you personally.
I know that when we lead by example we are doing things the way that Christ would have us do them.
I know that this gospel is the only true way to find happiness in this life and eternal joy in the world to come.
I love you all.
The Church is true, your body is a Temple, DON'T DO DRUGS!
-Elder Logan Gifford
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