The focus

Well this week the focus of our mission was, well, refocused. We have been focusing the majority of our efforts, in the baptize area, and maybe lacked a little in the retention and the reactivating efforts, as a mission. so this week during the zone conference that we had we refocused our efforts on that and talked about how if we reactivate more people that we will retain more as well as baptize more people. So this week my companion put that into practice and met with ten different less active families while at the same time having fourteen lessons with member at investigators. Some of the best lessons were;

1. With a family where the parents have both been excommunicated, the ten year old son is a recent convert (got baptized in November) and they have not come to church for about 8 months (pretty much right after his baptism) We stopped by Saturday night with the bishop and commenced to talk about the love that God has for all of his children and his role as our father. We committed them to come the next day to church and not only did they come, but during the testimony meeting their son got up and bore a short, but powerful testimony. Awesome.

2. Sunday night we went on 'rescue' visits as dad calls them to a family that has not been to church in a year for an interview that the wife had, had with the bishop. They are sealed in the temple and lets just say that after talking about their family and what they really want to achieve as a family, we, along with the first councilor of the bishopric committed them to church this next Sunday. Lets just say that we cannot let anything impede us from keeping the covenants that we have made with God. 

3. We left on Thursday with Hernan (baptized for about two weeks) to visit some less active members, one of which was Brother Lieva, the first branch president of San Carlos. Boy is he old, but let me tell you that does not stop him from keeping the conversation rolling. (note to all, when the missionaries visit let them teach you something.) But in the end it was a very good lesson in which we addressed the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the importance of attending church on  a weekly basis (sacrament). 

Other than that we did bring a few non members to church yesterday, one of Which is named Maritza she is an older woman who has to care for her two grandchildren because her daughter-in-law said she was going out for a while and then she would come back, well three years later she has yet to return. But she is a very humble woman and she loves the gospel.

We also did a visit with the bishop with a less active couple who are living together, but are not married yet expecting their first child, we (with the bishop) were able to put some goals with them and to motivate them to come back to church. 

I love being a missionary. This week my companion began talking to someone in the street and tried to ask if we could come by one day to share with them our beliefs, but he ended up asking if we could come by to share our creations with them, the woman responded, 'ummmm.... I'm gonna have to analyze that one.....' (in Spanish beliefs and creations are very similar words) 

LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Elder Hutchins