January 6, 2014
Familias Can Be Together Forever
Ok, so we didn’t have
investigators come to church this week, but I'm actually super excited in spite
of that. Our mission president is really making a push now to go find
families—something that we haven't exactly focused on in the mission because of
the high percentage of couples that live together without being married.
He gave us a few tips to help us find married families. He said to
look for clues that show pride in their children. He showed us,
specifically, that many people with cars have stickers that show all of the
members of the family. No one would put that sticker on their car if they
aren’t married.
As a result of what he
has been telling us, I have completely changed my finding tactic. My
primary contacting tool now is the Family Proclamation, and we are now hunters
of family stickers. In the end, we are actually finding married people!
It's incredible! Perhaps there have been times when I haven't been
making the restoration relevant to people. I can understand if someone
doesn’t want to learn about Joseph Smith at first, but if you aren’t interested
when I tell you that your family can be a happy family here and after you die,
I am not interested in teaching you. I feel different. I don’t mean
to say that the work is easy, but I feel like we are on the verge of changing a
ward that hasn’t experienced "real growth" in many years. This
is so exciting.
Please add to the
prayers Javier and Rosa, Gloria and Luis Espinoza, Jose Castillo, and the
Yacila family. Your prayers have meant a lot to me, and I feel them
throughout the day. I think I am finally learning to understand what a
subtle prompting is, and I just wish I had learned to follow them sooner.
Love you all!
Make good choices!
Elder Johnson
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