What a Week!
Tuesday, Elder Martinez was transferred, and I began my final Transfer with Elder Cunningham from Idaho Falls! When I had 6 months in the Mission I saw him begin! Later I was his district leader and then his Zone Leader. Now, He's gonna kill me!! Hahaa Plus he plays Basketball so I'm pumped!
Wednesday we just went so hard at work! He's a hard worker so this is gonna be a great experience!
Thursday we had the first ever Mission Conference! We have been together before, but we were with other missions as well to see Apostles speak. But this was the first time we were authorized to get the whole mission together for a conference!!
We completely changed the way that we work! When I got here to the mission, we didn't work very well with the members, we just spent the whole day with them in a time wasting way. So we had to completely abandon passing by for the because of the bad habit in the mission.
Since I got here, we started working purely through our own personal working! Finding people through contacts and knocking doors, and in all possible ways using our own effort. We have learned a lot over these 2 years on how to do it effectively.
Now, its time for us to go back to the members, but in an effecitve way. Now we are going to work with the less actives. We are going to use all the Less Actives as a reference point, teaching their neighbors, friends and family members who are not members of the church. We will also be using their Ministers to teach them.
Our goal is to Invite those who are not members to repent and be baptized. But in this new way we will be taking advantage of the opportunity to reactivate AND teach the members how to be ministers, with out wasting any time at all!
As Zone Litoral, and having the assistants in our Zone, we tested this new way starting last month. Now in this month of May, we have already baptized 22 people (The previous record in our Zone was 16).
Not to focus in on a number, but it just showed us how the Mission will change and baptize 1000s more.
Lastly as a mission, we have set up temple trips to take all the recent converts to the temple, to be able to retain them and keep them strong!
"As the World´s darkness darkens, The Light of Truth and of the Restored Church will only become Brighter, and more clearly distinguishable"
I'm so grateful to have seen the last 2 years of work, and to have seen all the revelations and changes that have led us to this point as a mission! The Lord has hastened his work and will continue doing so
I Testify that he guides us in his work.
To finish off the week, on Saturday, Ruben and Else Peña were sealed for all time and eternity! And my emotions cannot describe the opportunity that we had to take them through the temple, and be present in the Sealing!
I Love You All!!
Love Elder Ryan
2 - CCM Trio
3 - The Reyna Family
4 - Last Leadership Council
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