Dear
Family,
Not
to be boring, but we weren't able to meet HJ last week, so I don't have any
news for you on that one...but this upcoming Sunday we have a baptism
scheduled, did I already tell you about him? His name is JH, he's like in
his 60s, and he's been meeting with the missionaries for a long time, maybe up
to 5 years. He likes the church a lot, just has a few concerns. . . Anyway, his baptismal date is December 20, and
so hopefully it works out. We called him the other night to ask him about
doing the baptismal interview sometime this week, and he told us that he wants
to push off the baptism until the spring since it's too cold outside right
now. Obviously it doesn't matter what the weather is like since we have a
baptismal font in the church, so maybe there is something else going on that he
won't tell us. We'll meet him this week, maybe tomorrow, and see what's
going on. In the meantime, please pray for him :)
I
would agree, President Barrow definitely receives a lot of inspiration for this
mission. Especially all the things I've heard from leadership meetings
and from the zone leaders and APs, President Barrow has a really high vision
for what this mission can accomplish. The weekly baptism goal isn't the
start of it though, I think President has had this vision for a long time, and
is unfolding it bit by bit, as we're ready for it. For example, last spring
he set as the mission standard 13 total lessons per week per team, but at that
time, that was a really lofty goal, and most people didn't think it was very
realistic. But I was talking to the zone leaders the other day, and
apparently the mission average for lessons taught is sitting right at about 13
per week, and so President is planning on upping it to 20 in the near
future. So just things like that, he's been slowly trying to raise the
expectations for the missionaries here, and it is working! :)
I
can't think of anything significant that happened last week. A member
took us out to eat Shabu Shabu, have you ever heard of that? I think it
might be Vietnamese or something, it's really good. It was only
the second time I've had it since it's kind of expensive.
This
Saturday we have a ward Christmas party, and whenever we have ward activities
like this, the ward mission leader has the missionaries do a ton of stuff, so
we've been really busy. We have all of the members split up between the
three teams, and we have to call each person we are assigned to and ask if they
have anyone they can invite to the activity. If they don't (which is 99%
of the time) we have to tell them that we will call them back in a few days, ask
them to pray to find someone they can invite, and then we have to follow up
with this until they find someone or the activity happens, whichever is
first. Elder Yoon and I only have 30ish
people, but we have to do that whole process with each of them
periodically. I think it's a really good idea though, it helps the
members to be more involved in missionary work, just a ridiculous amount of
work for the missionaries.
I
can't really think of anything else that happened, hopefully that entertains
you until next week :)
Love,
Elder
Hines
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