Well
first off we went up again in attendance in the branch. We had 92 which was
good for us. There is still a lot of growing but we are going little by little.
My goal is that we can get up to 120 by the time I leave. There are changes in
2 weeks though. I dont think I am going to leave but you never know.
Kelvin
went to church too. He has his baptismal date for this Saturday. He seems
pretty much ready to go. It is going to be so cool because we are going to do
the ordinance in english. I have never baptized anyone in english so this might
be the first time! I am pumped for it! He is so cool.
In
church we set apart my convert, Efrain, as the new young mens president of the
branch. He is doing great in the church. He always tells us how he is going to
leave on his mission this December.
We
are doing this thing now where every saturday we are leaving with 2 men in our
branch and we do divisions. It really helps us because our area is huge and we
dont have time to do everything in one day. I think it really helps us raise
the attendance because we can pass by a ton of members and remind them to go
and help them out so they are ready to go to church. I sometimes feel like we
have to hold the hands of so many members but it is working haha.
The
Area Presidency puts a lot of focus on the self sufficiency so that the
missionaries have less responsibility and the members can do more. A lot of
people are just so young in the church so they still dont really understand how
the church works yet but with time it will get better.
The
new area plan came out for 2016. I felt a little weird because i remember when
the plan of 2015 came out. It is a similiar plan and its perfect to help
strengthen the church for us. It focuses a lot on the daily prayer and
scripture study, paying tithing, keeping the day of rest, doing temple work,
and simple things like that so that the members become more converted and
receive more blessings in their life.
Our
investigadors are doing good too. We are a little low right now just because
some have moved out of our area but we are doing decent. Only 10 right now but
6 of them are on date. We just need to get more this week to make our pool of
investigadors bigger so that we keep baptizing and helping the church get more
members.
Well
January is already flying by. I cant believe it. Time is rolling right now. We
are just pushing along here working hard and finding those chosen people!
Until
next week
much
love
Elder
Sherle
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