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"Sometimes God needs to chastize His servants the
Missionaries" - Elder Whitton
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Todo está bien aquí en San Silvestre!
We didn´t have any of our investigators in church today, which was a
little bit of a let down, and we´re having trouble applying what we´re learning
when we can´t get into the houses of our investigators to teach them! But we´re
working on applying what we can and trusting in the Lord to do the rest.
Personally, I´m confused on why he keeps giving us work to do, when we can´t
handle what we´ve got!
After our Cornelius a few weeks ago (who works from 8am-11pm in his internet,
which is always full, so it is very difficult to teach him), we haven´t stopped
getting references from Elders, members and investigators, even though we
haven´t been asking like we should, and yesterday E´Lopez told us that a family
came to their ward asking to meet our bishop and get a priesthood blessing and
be baptized. And they live in our sector. We must be doing something right, but
as of now, I´m still trying to figure out what it is.
We plan to refocus on a few investigators to teach in a way that looks
forward to attending church on Sunday, and makes it a more important part of
teaching them. One way we are going to do so is having more lessons with
members, utilizing our new ward mission leader, and by preparing the
investigators to receive revelation in church classes by teaching them the
basics of that week´s Gospel Principles lesson as part of the missionary
lessons. That way in the class they will be full of more ´how?´ questions and
not ´why?´ questions.
Just to clarify, this isn´t normal, even for ´south american
missionaries´. Our sector is the best one in the whole mission, which is the
best in the world, so natually our sector is the best in the world. But really,
we are so blessed that there is not room enough to recieve it. And I don´t even
have tithing to pay...
We´ve been formally asked by our Bishop to teach the missionary lessons
to the less active members of our ward, focusing on the kids who are of
seminary age. I know our Bishop has the power to recieve revelation in order to
take care of our ward, and I am appreciative to be a part of fulfilling his
needs.
This morning I got a letter from Josh and Brynn! Super cool to see and
hear a little bit about Hong Kong! So crazy
how spead out our family is!
This month we´ve been super focused on working with members,
specifically the leaders. We´ve been instituting the Obra de Salvación, instead
of the Obra misional. Let us know when you start talking about that!
Love, Elder Hicken
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