I am doing fine.
Trying to think about what I did this week...
Umm...
Lets see...
Aww
yes. I remember now. NOTHING happened this week. All of our lessons,
but 1, cancelled. We didn't meet our tracting goal and one of our
investigators we found out is starting to meet with
the Jehovah's Witnesses, because he can't be baptized until he gets
married or moves out of his girlfriends house. Neither of which he wants
to do.
I guess I should say something positive though also.
Elder Manwill had a leadership meeting this week so I had to go to
another area to be with someone else all day. I ended up spending the
day teaching with a missionary that I came out with. Wow, I learned that
I actually know a lot more than I think I did. He wanted me to plan out
the lessons for both the investigators they had lessons with that day.
He said he didn't really know what to do. Elder Manwill is training me
super well and has really taught me a lot. I am just always with him
learning so I don't really get to see what other missionaries are doing.
It's crazy. Something that Elder Manwill has told me to do that has
really helped me learn the lessons and has improved my teaching is to
start a study journal. Basically I went through and summarized all the
lessons and wrote down all the scripture references in Preach My Gospel
and then write a description of them. It helped me connect different
scriptures to the different topics and also got me more familiar with
them. Also, by writing them down it enables you to find them when your
planning your lessons much quicker.
Hmm...what else. OH WAIT DUH!!!!!!!!!!! I remembered
something awesome that happened. I went to High School to teach a
class. A girl in the ward was doing a presentation on Mormonism and so
she asked us if we could be her visual aid. First of all, she was the
only member in the class, which is much different than Utah. All we did
was answer any questions the class had about Mormonism. That was super
fun and hopefully we were able to clear up any misconceptions they might
have had. The other people in the girls group weren't mormon and so
when they created their slides for their powerpoint the member had to
make a lot of adjustments. People need
to go to the original source before they make judgments and statements. We find misinformation a
lot.
Hmm alright, one more thing that I just thought of
to tell you is that Elder Manwill and I were asked to sing in sacrament
meeting since we were both in the ward choir which, by the way, they are
still doing. We asked the choir director to find us a sweet version of
Lead, Kindly Light also we wanted to do it in a quartet. We haven't
started practicing yet, but I guess that they found a song for us.
Love you all,
Elder Udy
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