kamusta tanan!
mahal kita!
It's going pretty good here - beautiful day, there's a fan here
to keep me cooled off :)
Anyways, as for our area, we're still trying to refocus our
efforts, but we're struggling in the area of investigators. They don't
seem to be progressing enough - if we baptized them now, they'd think that what
they're doing now is ok, but it's not. I think we may put more of a
focus on the members and getting referrals from them, because the referrals
tend to do a lot better, especially since they already have a support and an
example. We're also still trying to search if there's
something wrong/lacking with the way we work with them.
On another note, one of the things I've been teaching our
investigators is about the straight and narrow path going towards the Celestial
Kingdom - one time as I was teaching it, I received a flash of inspiration (an
apostrophe/epiphany :) and as I was teaching it, I realized that it's
like a narrow current that's hard to stay in - it's really difficult, and it
may be easier to be outside of it, but you don't make much progress unless
you're in it. If we liken it to a highway, those lines on the sides are
like the commandments - it may seem to be a burden to stay inside of them and
follow them, but they keep you safe and on the better path where it's better
going and you can progress instead of off roading which may be fun at the time,
but then later you wash the car and fix dents and if you went off in a bad
place, you have to heal the wounds and deal with a totaled car. But we
receive help, strength, blessings, etc. if we follow all the commandments/rules/standards.
My companion and I are doing well; we're learning a lot
together. How to work, how to compromise, how to work with others, and
much more. He's been trying to learn the language, but it's not coming
very fast. So what he's doing right now is learning how to be patient,
slow down, and "use what little I know"(Elder Benjamin) he's
working hard to learn it, and so we're just going to go at a turtle's pace, and
later when the other missionaries stop doing language study and feel
comfortable with where they're at, he'll catch up and maybe even get ahead of
them!
Oh yeah - good news, we got a new Ward Mission Leader!
He's been in that position before, so we just have to teach him about the
new program where we visit everyone.
that's about it!
Hope all's well with you and yours!
~Elder Dallin
Carlson
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