Ciao President Kelly!
This week we've been working hard to find people, and especially to meet with the members here. Lately, after District Conference and that huge goal getting set up for us to double our church attendance by the end of June, we've also been trying to think about how to meet with members about less actives, as well. And we've seen a few less actives. A few of which, we have really come to appreciate and want to help. Mainly, la famiglia Marrocu (in which the Mom is still active, but the Dad is rather forward and blunt about continuing to be inactive) and la famiglia Gordillo, whose work and school schedules make it nigh impossible for them to come to church on time. We met with that family just last night, and hope that our message of prioritizing relationships over all else will at least help them to make more family time.
But with that big goal, it seems to me that each of the missionaries in our district is super psyched to make it happen, and we want to do it as effectively as possible. For this reason, we are trying to meet more with the members, and the leaders of the branches especially, to try to help the members take a bigger interest in helping those here. Big job, for sure.
So yeah, that's kind of where our work is focusing at the moment. One thing that I want to mention real quick, Anziano McIntyre is really great at helping me relate what I study to my life and missionary work. I don't know how, but he just asks the right questions to get my mind thinking in the right direction. It's really cool, and I'm really thankful for that in a companion. We're doing our best to work together more!
Thanks for all you do!
Anziano Walker
Well HIya!
Meh, it sounds better than it looks, that "hiya". Anywho, this week has been pretty good. Yesterday got hard: all but one appointment ended up being a bidone, and I was unfortunately getting pretty down at the end. But the VERY last one, with that Gordillo family, really helped me to perk up. (wait, that sounds weird to me, did I use that right?) But yeah, that was a good lesson. It was weird, the daughters there looked kind of familiar, but I can't think of anyone that I know that looks like them. Maybe they just have those kind of faces, boh.
Dad, it's funny that you mention the New Testament being such a huge thing right now. This morning, I was reading in Leviticus about all the "sin sacrifices", and realized that they were all the same for every group of people. I told that to my companion in companionship study, and he asked something, I forget what, and I came up with, immediately, how it relates to us, which is what prompted that last little bit to President. It's really neat to see how natural of a teacher Anziano McIntyre is.
Mom, hehe, with the food..... I honestly think I mention it too much to Anziano McIntyre. I've been working on not talking about lunch too much. It's not usually a problem, but sometimes....... haha!
But not much to report this week. I guess I kind of said everything in Skype, haha! Which honestly, was a little weird. Don't get me wrong, I freakin' loved it, but something just felt like that was all kind of...... behind. Especially seeing the house. But I love getting to talk to you guys, it honestly felt like the Christmas call was not long ago at all!
Oh, and District Meeting went swimmingly. everybody participated, and we all got great ideas from each other for this huge June goal. All conversation, including talking about how work was going in each respective area, turned back to that, which was kind of funny to see. I've never seen a district so focused on one thing before. Let's do this!
Well, ciao ciao, ci vediamo!
Anziano Walker
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