This week was way crazy!!!
There are a lot of responsibilities that we have as missionaries. On a daily basis we need to keep track of members we want to work with, members who haven't attended church in a while, new members, people learning, people with interest, people who have been previously taught, missionaries in our area, and much more. I am so grateful to lose myself in this amazing work.
Every 1.5 months there needs to be a focus for a certain amount of missionaries (called a zone). Elder Haerewa (my companion from the land down under) and I wanted to mix things up. Our focus for this month and a half is called, "The Trek to Zion." Early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints migrated west when heavy persecution took its tole. Those saints, or pioneers, where the forefathers to a better world. As a Sibu Zone, we have our own "trek to Zion." Zion means "unity" or the located intended to be traveled to by the Pioneers. We have our goals we want to achieve which in a sense can represent "Zion." Having the video be shown is a lot easier than describing it, so I will send to link and hopefully it works. On the trek we face a lot of obstacles and challenges, but alas we made it to Zion.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xikJGy5NuX00q9VbMUN312AS_gD3NQPZ/view?usp=sharing_eil&ts=5c3be9c5
On Wednesday we had MLC which means "Missionary Leadership Conference." It was 6 hours long. We discuss the needs of the mission and give training accordingly. As a Sibu Zone we decided to have a goal of 100 baptisms this year! I am excited.
Andre's family has a date for the Temple!! They will be leaving this December! Ahhhhh so awesome.
Missionary work isn't always kicks and giggles. If someone where to let you into their home during tracking(knocking on doors), that would be considered an OTS, or "on the spot lesson." Elder Haerewa and I knocked on the first two doors and we got into both of them. Each had a big family. After we shared with them the message of the restoration, both families decided to not continue learning. It is what it is, we are here to "reap the harvest."
The most appointments I've ever had in a day was 8. That was this past Saturday! Normally a lot of appointments "fall through," or are cancelled. For the first time, every one of those appointments happened! It felt like we were running around Sibu for the whole day but it was so awesome to have happen!
Sunday was a miracle day! Brother Khimmy is going to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood, ministering is finally starting, the branch attendance goal for this year was 120 and we had 106, there were 10 people learning at church, Brother Khimmy's relatives are on date, and we got free fruit, (rambutan!).
In that last paragraph, there was a lot of terminology that many of you might not be aware of. You are more than welcome to talk to a member of the Church or my family so they can helped you learn more!
Love you, have a greaaaaaat week!!
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