Dear Family,
I'd like to share a cool story that's happened this week. In some missions tracting is definitely the way to go in trying to find new investigators, but for some missions it's very unproductive....that's how the Canada Calgary Mission is. Our main focus is try to get investigators through the members of the church and help build their faith in missionary work. In our mission (so far) there's no rule where you have to do a billion hours of tracting each week, it's not a huge priority. But, Sis. Tomlinson and I have a goal to have a new investigator this month by our own finding efforts so we've been doing our best to talk to everyone that we see on the streets and follow any promptings we have to knock on certain doors. It's hard trying to find people this way because most of the time they just say they're not interested. Well, Sis. Tomlinson and I were knocking at a door and we saw this girl on the other side of the street walking her dog who wouldn't stop barking. "If you don't stop barking we're going to turn around and go right back home!" she yelled. It was kind of entertaining seeing this girl react to her dog but eventually we lost sight of her. So, we decided to go down another street and see if any members from our ward would be home but came out unsuccessful. As we were walking back to our car the girl walking her dog was heading towards us...and was still yelling at her dog who wouldn't stop barking. We both decided to approach her and as we came closer we saw that she was around our age and her face and ears were covered with mulitiple piercings. MULTIPLE. MUCHO. A LOT. I instantly thought to myself, "There's no way this girl is going to be interested." I was judging her appearance and not looking on the heart. But, we still stopped to talk to her and it came out that she knew a few things about the church and was interested in learning more! She willingly gave us her address, phone number, and we plan to teach her about the Restoration tomorrow afternoon. I learned a huge lesson. Regardless of what a person appears to be or look like we shouldn't hold back in allowing them to have the opportunity to learn about the gospel. Again, the Lord looks in on the heart and when we receive a prompting to talk to someone we should trust in His ability to comprehend all things. When we learn to humble ourselves and obey His counsel, not ours, doors that we thought didn't exist or could never be opened are opened. "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith." (2 Nephi 27:23) When ever the Lord directs us to say or do something...JUST DO IT!!! As we do so our faith and trust in Him increase and we become instruments. I prefer to be a banjo :)
Things are still in place for Rita's baptism for November 6th! The thing is is that she still struggles with why we don't drink tea or coffee....and she needs to give it up a week before her baptism and we're having a hard time contacting her. If she's still drinking we'll have to post pone the baptism until a later date until she's fully ready. I'd rather have her be completely ready and committed then still blury about things, if that makes sense.
Love you fam!
Love Sister Ireland
I'd like to share a cool story that's happened this week. In some missions tracting is definitely the way to go in trying to find new investigators, but for some missions it's very unproductive....that's how the Canada Calgary Mission is. Our main focus is try to get investigators through the members of the church and help build their faith in missionary work. In our mission (so far) there's no rule where you have to do a billion hours of tracting each week, it's not a huge priority. But, Sis. Tomlinson and I have a goal to have a new investigator this month by our own finding efforts so we've been doing our best to talk to everyone that we see on the streets and follow any promptings we have to knock on certain doors. It's hard trying to find people this way because most of the time they just say they're not interested. Well, Sis. Tomlinson and I were knocking at a door and we saw this girl on the other side of the street walking her dog who wouldn't stop barking. "If you don't stop barking we're going to turn around and go right back home!" she yelled. It was kind of entertaining seeing this girl react to her dog but eventually we lost sight of her. So, we decided to go down another street and see if any members from our ward would be home but came out unsuccessful. As we were walking back to our car the girl walking her dog was heading towards us...and was still yelling at her dog who wouldn't stop barking. We both decided to approach her and as we came closer we saw that she was around our age and her face and ears were covered with mulitiple piercings. MULTIPLE. MUCHO. A LOT. I instantly thought to myself, "There's no way this girl is going to be interested." I was judging her appearance and not looking on the heart. But, we still stopped to talk to her and it came out that she knew a few things about the church and was interested in learning more! She willingly gave us her address, phone number, and we plan to teach her about the Restoration tomorrow afternoon. I learned a huge lesson. Regardless of what a person appears to be or look like we shouldn't hold back in allowing them to have the opportunity to learn about the gospel. Again, the Lord looks in on the heart and when we receive a prompting to talk to someone we should trust in His ability to comprehend all things. When we learn to humble ourselves and obey His counsel, not ours, doors that we thought didn't exist or could never be opened are opened. "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and I work not among the children of men save it be according to their faith." (2 Nephi 27:23) When ever the Lord directs us to say or do something...JUST DO IT!!! As we do so our faith and trust in Him increase and we become instruments. I prefer to be a banjo :)
Things are still in place for Rita's baptism for November 6th! The thing is is that she still struggles with why we don't drink tea or coffee....and she needs to give it up a week before her baptism and we're having a hard time contacting her. If she's still drinking we'll have to post pone the baptism until a later date until she's fully ready. I'd rather have her be completely ready and committed then still blury about things, if that makes sense.
Love you fam!
Love Sister Ireland
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