Hola familia,
[Hello family,]
[Hello family,]
¿Como estan? Yo estoy muy bien—gracias por sus cartas.
[How are you? I am doing well — thanks for your letters.]
[How are you? I am doing well — thanks for your letters.]
Esta semana en el CCM fue muy bien, y muy rapido. Elder Gallacci y yo estamos los lideres de zona ahora, y enseñamos a un nuevo distrito ayer. Nuestra meta es de los ayuda a ser un distrito mejor que nosotros, con el meta que ellos harán el mismo cosa. Entonces, los enseñnamos como investigadores--los preguntamos, explicamos, testificamos, etc. ¡Creo que ellos serán muy bien!
[This week at the MTC went well and very fast. Elder Gallacci and I are the zone leaders right now and and we taught a new district yesterday. Our goal is to help them be a better district than us, with the goal that that they will do the same thing. So, we are teaching them as if they were investigators --we ask them questions, we explain, we testify, etc. I believe they will be just fine.]
[This week at the MTC went well and very fast. Elder Gallacci and I are the zone leaders right now and and we taught a new district yesterday. Our goal is to help them be a better district than us, with the goal that that they will do the same thing. So, we are teaching them as if they were investigators --we ask them questions, we explain, we testify, etc. I believe they will be just fine.]
As well, we've been learning more about contacting, and had I had maybe one lesson in this, I would have been much more effective at it with the missionaries in Ottawa! The formula is pretty simple—once you've established some rapport, you proceed to teach succintly, with 'power statements' like "I know that God is your Heavenly Father, and He loves you," followed by a question, e.g. "What would you be willing to do to feel God's live in your life," followed by testimony, repeated as time allows! We've been doing some practising and I'm hoping to do contacting on the MTC campus this coming week.
It's also been a good week for testimony—I know that the Saviour lives! and loves me, individually, and desires that I come unto Him through faith, and obedience to His commandments. I have confidence that as I excercise faith, I will be thus enable to learn more and more of Him, as, through His Atonement acting upon me, I become more and more prepared to live in His presence. I am grateful for the Lord's church on the earth, and the power of His priesthood to bless all people, and me individually in coming unto the Saviour, and receiving of His perfect love and peace, and joy.
In other matters, I received my coat this week. It turned cold yesterday, but it's still only just below freezing, I believe. One interesting point of the week was that we comitted one of our progressing investigators, Jorge, to come to family home evening with his family. Of course, this required that we thus role-play the family home evening, so I was Hermano Magaña, two hermanas were Hermana and Niña Maganña, and we provided Jorge with a spouse and two children for the Family Home Evening. The lesson went pretty well, and we played a round of Don't Eat Pete at the end. However, I do think that Jorge was a little shocked (he's a bit shy), but our goal was to help him to see the gospel in action in a family, and to introduce the rest of his family to the gospel, and I feel that we accomplished those goals.
Our district is also working hard to be early for classes, and getting to bed on time, and we decorated our class room with a large Argentinian flag, a Christmas tree, and a Christmas chain (we remove a link daily until Christmas, then continue until the departure date!). I'll be sending pictures today in the post!
I'm glad to hear that Martins has been baptised, and that missionaries are returning to our ward. Thank you for your efforts for missionary work back home.
Anyhow, I must away, thank you for your love and prayers!
Love,
David
