33 Weeks Remaining -August 11, 2013

33 Weeks Remaining

August 11, 2013

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This week we had zone training meeting. Usually it’s just our zone members and the zone leaders getting together and doing some training.  As the district leader, I had to do a training about using the Book of Mormon on the street. Our mission goal for the month is for every companionship to hand out one Book of Mormon each day. When the time for the training meeting came, the President came and gave us an awesome training. He was understandably upset because our whole mission only had two baptisms last week. Our goal is 80 this month. We usually get around 30 a month and we have around 160 missionaries in our mission. So he came and gave a great training about inviting people on the street to be baptized. He told us how we need to "cut off the chicken head" and be more bold with people. I loved it! We went out and invited 3 people on the street to be baptized this week. They all nicely rejected the invite but its cool doing it.  I think it weeds out the prepared people from the people that still need a little seasoning. It was kind of a tough week success wise. We had a baptismal interview setup with our 13 year old investigator for after church but he didn’t show up. Our recent convert that usually brings him, couldn’t find him at his house in the morning.  So we are going to try and go find him this week. Other than that we're just outside all day talking to people.  We are tracting and just trying to find someone that we can teach and baptize. Enjoy your summer! It’s cooking out here. Thursday was the hottest it’s ever been in Taiwan in 100 years + you add in that killer humidity…….

Love, 

Elder Chatman

A gross looking spider Jordan took a picture of in Taiwan.