(Funny story about this photo - I (Tamara) was working in the baptistry of the Gilbert Temple last Thursday when Kohler's prom date from last year came to do baptisms. She told me she was attending NAU in Flagstaff and had a friend who is serving in Mendoza, Argentina and sent her this picture. She noticed Elder Chamberlain on the front row (right) and couldn't believe it! So, she sent the picture to me. Cool story, huh!)
Hey everybody!
So, remember how last week we couldn't find people to teach? This week we have been working with a lot of references from members. One member Hermana Cornejo who teaches the gospel principles class at church has 4 families for us! We got to teach one of the families this last week but some of them would just come in and sit down then leave and do that about every 5 minutes so it was hard for us to determine if they actually got the lesson. We decided we will plan for something in the future. We got to talk to all of them and get to know them to gain their trust and we all seemed to get along really well!
References is what I'd say is the number one thing to bring people into the church. I actually didn't know this but places like Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah etc are some of the HIGHEST baptizing missions in the world. I always thought most everybody was Mormon there but no haha. The work there is all with the members and so the area president of South America and Russel Nelson who's in charge of missionary work have told all mission presidents to encourage to work more with the members. We've been doing that and we actually made shirts for all the missionaries in our zone and all the members! On the shirt it says Embarquense and a picture of a big ship with symbols from programs our church has like family history, self-reliance, etc. the ship symbolizes Nephi and his family leaving for the "promised land" so were going to help people do that and we're starting by working together with the members. It's been doing really good! In the past 3 weeks our mission has got 40 baptisms! We've had better ya but it's going good right now so it's all good!
We had Zone conference which is different than zone mtg cuz its every 3 months and the president is there with the assistants. He talked about how if you build a house you don't say..." wow that saw cut that wood really good huh. or wow that hammer did a good job"-- No we say that builder did a good job. Christ is the builder and we are his tools so we need to make sure we do our part and let the Holy Ghost do the rest.
Haha that photo you saw from Lexi, I can't believe that! That's not the shirt I was talking about but that was our zone shirt that we made with all of our names on it! Man I wonder which Hermana she knows. I know one other guy from AZ named Elder Matthews but he's from Glendale. He's soo cool and we burn together all the time talking about home, the lake and what not haha.
Wow you guys are getting super into the pageant!! That is super cool! I wouldn't be surprised of the blessings you guys are receiving. That's success mom, that the kids are having, with school and getting everything done. God wants to see if you and the family will trust Him to do this work. Yes, it's a work-- you guys are putting on a show for many thousands who are members and many who are NOT. They will feel the spirit and then look to the temple and feel something RIGHT about this church. That is missionary work. It might be hard to see it like that but you're a part in their conversion so really you're helping the work. We teach lessons to teach and give knowledge of our church but we teach so that the SPIRIT can teach! The spirit will teach them that these things are true.
We had Zone conference which is different than zone mtg cuz its every 3 months and the president is there with the assistants. He talked about how if you build a house you don't say..." wow that saw cut that wood really good huh. or wow that hammer did a good job"-- No we say that builder did a good job. Christ is the builder and we are his tools so we need to make sure we do our part and let the Holy Ghost do the rest.
Haha that photo you saw from Lexi, I can't believe that! That's not the shirt I was talking about but that was our zone shirt that we made with all of our names on it! Man I wonder which Hermana she knows. I know one other guy from AZ named Elder Matthews but he's from Glendale. He's soo cool and we burn together all the time talking about home, the lake and what not haha.
Wow you guys are getting super into the pageant!! That is super cool! I wouldn't be surprised of the blessings you guys are receiving. That's success mom, that the kids are having, with school and getting everything done. God wants to see if you and the family will trust Him to do this work. Yes, it's a work-- you guys are putting on a show for many thousands who are members and many who are NOT. They will feel the spirit and then look to the temple and feel something RIGHT about this church. That is missionary work. It might be hard to see it like that but you're a part in their conversion so really you're helping the work. We teach lessons to teach and give knowledge of our church but we teach so that the SPIRIT can teach! The spirit will teach them that these things are true.
I'm glad you guys got to spend some time with the LaDukes and the Fuhrimans! I'm sure that was fun.
I'm making something for all the cousins and I'm gonna send quite a bit of things with Elder Ah You and his parents home to the U.S. if I can!
Anyway, that's what's up in the "Mish" right now. Miss and love you all! Let's get it this week!!
Elder Kohler Chamberlain
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