08/31/2015

We had  Zone conference this week  and hearing all the insight you had I really liked how you started your training with the word goodly and showed us all that you can have a great study with looking up what one word means and help our investigator better understand the importance of not only just reading the Book of Mormon but feasting upon the words which are inside and help our investigators to not be scared to ask us those simple questions about what a word means so we could start with the goodly word in the first verse of the Book of Mormon and describe how i didn't understand completely  what that word meant so i looked it up and found out so i could better understand the words of Christ, and i also really enjoyed Sister Gardner training i really loved the part if her training when she said " We are warriors preparing for the 2nd coming" That got me really excited for missionary work and to be even better than i am and help others become closer to their savior and help them prepare for the 2nd coming as well. I also really liked the Assistants training on the importance of teaching simply and helping the investigators understand and i have been bad at using the pamphlets since my trainer left but we have been doing better at using them. 

 

Elder Rose and myself had a really cool experience this week and i would like to tell you about it. During Elder Rose first transfer in Sioux Falls we called all the contacts in our phone and talked with them and asked them how they met the missionaries and if they enjoyed the message the missionaries shared with them and we called everyone and a couple of them didn't answer so we left them a message waiting to hear back from them and we called them back in like a week and a half and most of them still didn't answer so we put them on the back-burner and went about our days not really thinking about them and focusing on other things, but we had a little bit of down time so i said lets call a number in the phone that didn't answer so we were looking through the contacts and came across a Gaylene Morris and we called her and i talked to her right before we went into a dinner, and she told us she was busy but to call her back the next day, so we went into dinner and she called us back but we were not able to answer the phone, but we called her back the next day like we were told to and she apologized for not talking to us the day before and said i shouldn't turn away messengers from the lord and i then taught her on the phone for a half an hour and answered some of the questions she had, but she told me that she believes that their is only one true church on the earth and she is wanting to find it, so i shared my testimony with her and we have a appointment with her and her family on Thursday! 

Love,

Elder Hales