Week 48 -March 26, 2013

Week 48

March 26, 2013

Hey everyone,

A quick recap of some of the things we did this week... 

We went English boarding, which is basically where you go out to a busy intersection and hand out pamphlets for our free English class. Then we walked 20 minutes and stopped by a less-active’s home but he had actually moved.

Also we had a district meeting. Since I’m the District leader, I had to lead it. I basically just trained about the power combination - extend a commitment, testify and promise blessings. Then after that we did practice teaching. We have a brand new missionary in our district and so he has to practice teaching the missionary lessons in Chinese with me. After that we went up the road and helped a member do some translating with a Filipino member who needed help with her work situation. Later, that night, we went out and talked to as many people as we could on the streets and then we called up some referrals. We had about 10 lessons setup for this week, but only about 2 happened. The other 8 people were no shows.

On Wednesday, we had a meeting at the church with our zone and the mission president from 9 am until 4 pm. President talked about planning better and how the Church wants us to put more emphasis on visiting less actives. My companion and I really wanted to start doing that so we asked the ward for a list of less active people.  But I guess some new law just came out in Taiwan that you can’t give out other people’s information or else you can get sued. So we didn’t end up getting the list...haha so that makes visiting less active people tough.  But it’s all good…. we'll think of something.

 This week, we also went to a meeting for all of the district and zone leaders in the mission. They taught us about our responsibilities as leaders. This week, I did my first baptismal interview. I interview the investigators of the missionaries who want to get baptized in the district. So this week I interviewed this 9 year old boy who the elders were teaching. His dad was a less-active. It was interesting, because I mean, he's nine. So I had to kind of adapt the interview and questions so that he could understand.  He was wild too, running around, wobbling on the chair, typically nine year old stuff, but it worked out.  That is basically what went on this week!

Love,

Elder Chatman