Hey Everyone!
Wow just another week down. Time just keeps going its way weird the warp you are in on your mission. I was in Riga for 2 days this week on an exchange with the Assistant to the President. His name is Elder Nielson and he graduated a year ahead of me in high school at Olympus. He is a great guy. He told me quite a bit about how transfers work and how missionaries are chosen to train. Next week we have our Christmas zone conference. I will have to do a lot of teaching as the zone leader next week at zone conference, lets just say 6 hours worth over a 2 day period. Preparation Day will be on Wednesday next week, just to let you know.
Wow just another week down. Time just keeps going its way weird the warp you are in on your mission. I was in Riga for 2 days this week on an exchange with the Assistant to the President. His name is Elder Nielson and he graduated a year ahead of me in high school at Olympus. He is a great guy. He told me quite a bit about how transfers work and how missionaries are chosen to train. Next week we have our Christmas zone conference. I will have to do a lot of teaching as the zone leader next week at zone conference, lets just say 6 hours worth over a 2 day period. Preparation Day will be on Wednesday next week, just to let you know.
I have a good story to share with you. This week we have spent a lot of time working with active members. We have actually had really good success receiving referrals from them. One of the members gave us a referral of her son in law who works as a shoe smith and locksmith at one of the local stores. She said to go there and try talking to him but to not mention her name. We went the next day and scouted out the situation. She had explained how he looks and when we walked in the grocery store and saw his little shop off to the side, we knew it was him. We approached him and asked him if it would be more worth it to buy new shoes or repair the hole that is on Elder Barney's heel. We got talking to him and he told us all of the pros and cons. We told
him it is hard to find shoes that will last for 2 years, the 2 years that we are here as missionaries. We were slowly easing the conversation in that direction. In the meantime we asked him if the grocery store would have a certain light bulb that we needed. He asked where we are from and we talked a little about that, and we told
him that we are here to talk to people about God. We asked him if he believes in God or not. He said he does but he has never felt a large need to learn any more than he already knows. He said, "But my mother in law
goes to sunday school somewhere here in Pärnu." "Oh really," I replied, "What's her name?" He said, "Zoja..." Then we asked "Zoja Idvani?" ..."Yeah thats her!" We told him how awesome she is and how good she is at coordinating game night. We mentioned that she always brings her grandkids along. He said that those are his kids. We told him that the Book of Mormon is the difference with this church and that it proves the Jesus Christ's true church was restored. We talked a little longer, and he said that he would be interested in talking another time. There was a nice little Euro change wallet he was selling that Elder Barney was interested in that will give us a good excuse to go back. We walked away after meeting Mario and just thought to ourselves, that couldnt have gone better! We meet with member, member gives us referral, we contact referral by happen chance, and now referral wants to meet. Elder Barney and I are going to talk about that for years to come and still be amazed at how well that somehow turned out. We have some other really promising referrals that we are excited about from some of the other members. We kind of realized that if President Hinckley said missionary work is through the members, we need to give it an extra hard push and see what comes from it. Our zone is doing well with many baptismal dates going around right now.
him it is hard to find shoes that will last for 2 years, the 2 years that we are here as missionaries. We were slowly easing the conversation in that direction. In the meantime we asked him if the grocery store would have a certain light bulb that we needed. He asked where we are from and we talked a little about that, and we told
him that we are here to talk to people about God. We asked him if he believes in God or not. He said he does but he has never felt a large need to learn any more than he already knows. He said, "But my mother in law
goes to sunday school somewhere here in Pärnu." "Oh really," I replied, "What's her name?" He said, "Zoja..." Then we asked "Zoja Idvani?" ..."Yeah thats her!" We told him how awesome she is and how good she is at coordinating game night. We mentioned that she always brings her grandkids along. He said that those are his kids. We told him that the Book of Mormon is the difference with this church and that it proves the Jesus Christ's true church was restored. We talked a little longer, and he said that he would be interested in talking another time. There was a nice little Euro change wallet he was selling that Elder Barney was interested in that will give us a good excuse to go back. We walked away after meeting Mario and just thought to ourselves, that couldnt have gone better! We meet with member, member gives us referral, we contact referral by happen chance, and now referral wants to meet. Elder Barney and I are going to talk about that for years to come and still be amazed at how well that somehow turned out. We have some other really promising referrals that we are excited about from some of the other members. We kind of realized that if President Hinckley said missionary work is through the members, we need to give it an extra hard push and see what comes from it. Our zone is doing well with many baptismal dates going around right now.
The Christmas spirit is in the air. As the song goes, "I'M DREAMING OF A (person dressed in) WHITE (on) CHRISTMAS" Everyone is hoping for a baptism on christmas cause that would just be awesome.
I love you all.
Vanem McGavin
I love you all.
Vanem McGavin
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