Week 64

 

4/20/15

    It has been quite the grand week!

In the YSA ward, they decided that during our "munch and mingle" they would officially invite me into the ward, by giving me a birthday cake and singing happy birthday. haha It was quite funny and definitely unexpected. 

Sister Donato and I will be giving a presentation tomorrow for a bunch of missionaries and whatnot, and we ended up finding out about it yesterday, so we started scrambling around trying to find out what to talk about and how we could tie it in and make sure we stayed within our allotted time. We are talking about asking investigators inspired questions. We knew right off the bat that this is a subject thats talked about a lot, so we wanted to make it different and interesting. Especially since we were asked to use an example that has been used many many times over. 

As we were praying about it and trying to put ideas together, we finally figured out what to do! We are going to talk about how as we are teaching in lessons, its not information that these people haven't heard before. In Doctrine and Covenants 138 it talks about how "they with many others received their first lessons in the world of spirits". So we are going to teach them that our questions that we ask need to be pinpointed at helping these people to bring to their remembrance the things they've already learned before this life. 

We have an example that we will share where we will hold up a couple different types of keys. A door key, a car key, etc. and asking them to explain what it is that these keys are used for and how did they know. We will then tie it in to how our inspired questions are different keys. We first have to know which door of knowledge we want our investigators to open, so we have to give them the right key (or inspired question) to help them to open that door of knowledge for themselves. 

Hopefully the lesson goes well! 

This week we've had several cool things happen, but 'ill just mention one of them. I was able to go on my first sister exchange this past week. Basically what happens is I switch companions for 24 hours so that my companion and I can help to train, uplift and encourage other missionaries. We had several neat experiences happen on the exchange and they had been struggling to find new investigators, but we were able to find a couple of them and have some really powerful lessons with less active members. 

Anywho, thats about it! have a grand week! love you all!

 

Kali's papers to get the ball rolling on COMING HOME in Aug.!!!!