Members as Missionary Tools

Well, we had exchanges again this week and we decided to do some thing we had never done, we knocked a door! yea! i know we are rebels but the ban on knocking doors just got taken off so it was not bad, we still only did one and they said no but i felt so different doing that instead of what just trying to visit people. 

 

i have been reading 2 nephi 2 and i think it's really confusing but really beneficial and it explains alot of our beliefs just kinda hard to figure out in your head so i had to take notes as i read.

 

i am almost guaranteed to be training now. last week i told the president that i felt more ready, so if i am not training i will be really surprised. the only problems i have are i still don't know the roads that well and i don't know the members that well either, but i am trying to change all that. 

 

we played basketball for our ward activity and it was the funnest game i have played just cause they are not all that good and they try to make it as fun as possible.  i reallly do like this ward i just wish they had more time to help us or more willingness to help us. 

 

we had a record number of lessons this week some thing like 29. the only problem is most were with less active members who always promise to come to church but have not been in years. they are olways our back up plan for when our investigators are not home wich is about all the time. but i still like working with them.

 

we have an awesome member who has given us two references and the one has already been baptized and the other wants to be. she not only gives us references, she tells them about the church before and she organizes the lessons with them alot of the time.  i know not all the members have time to do this much work but imagine if they all tryed to. we could do so much more work here. if you think two references is not that much it is, we usually get one or two a week and half the time we can't find the people they tell us about.  i don't want to complain about my ward cause they do help us quite a bit but i just realize that with them we can do so much more.

 

well this week was great i am almost done with my training. have a good week everyone

 

Elder Ritchie