Good Morning family and friends! How is everyone doing these days? I
have been doing well here in Bento. Can you believe that the transfer
has already ended? This last transfer just flew by. It was a transfer
of only 5 weeks, so a little bit shorter
than usual, but still doesn't feel like I've been here this long in
Bento. Neither Elder Marques or I were transferred so nothing much will
change for us. I'm excited that he is going to stay another transfer
here because he is a cool guy and a really good missionary
so it will be fun. Another reason I am glad that our companionship
will stay the same is because we both made the goal of reaching the
Standard of Excellence for the mission this month in March.
The
Standard of Excellence is a bunch of goals in various of
our Key Indicators as missionaries that we need to reach weekly for the
month. Also part of this standard is to have 3 baptisms in the month
which is a pretty high bar. So this week we both decided to focus on
these numbers to motivate us to work extremely
hard and accomplish the goals. This week was a great experience and I
feel like we had a lot more results because of this motivation. Some of
the interesting goals in the standard of excellence are 12 Lessons with a
member present and 120 Contacts each week.
I don't think I've ever had these numbers of these categories, definitely
a different standard then normal. We had to force ourselves really
hard this week to reach these goals, we had to invite a ton of members
to go on visits with us and also literally talk
to everybody we saw each day to have enough contacts. We both saw that
by completing these numbers, we would also be finding a lot of
investigators with potential and helping our other investigators grow
some friendships with members in the church to help
them progress more toward baptism. I think that if we can continue at
this rate of completing all of our goals, our goal for 3 baptisms will
also happen. Haha I think it was a great idea or maybe even inspiration
for President Wright to make this standard
because both Elder Marques and I feel like we are having a lot more
success. We were able to mark 4 baptismal dates this week and also find
25 new investigators and all of our other numbers have risen
significantly, so the work is going faster here, and I
think we will have a lot more baptisms in the near future.
One of the investigators that was really cool that we met this week
was a young woman named Letissia. We met her doing contacts and were
able to teach her the restoration and the Book of Mormon this week. She
really liked our visits and told us that
she would pray to know that the things were true. The last visit we
had with her she told us that she prayed and felt that the things were
true. She accepted an invitation to be baptized and on Sunday Morning
when we went to pick her up to go to church,
she was standing outside her house waiting for us before we arrived. I
think she is an elect investigator and she will be baptized this month
so we are super excited. We also found quite a few other investigators
that seem really interested.
This was one
of the things that I think is part of President Wright´s vision. Talk
to as many people as possible to find the elect investigators every
week, and don't spend as much time with the investigators that aren't
progressing. In order to reach this goal every week
we cant spend very much time with investigator that don't have a very
strong desire to know the truth or willing to follow the example of
Christ, so we are trying to talk to everyone and find the elect investigators .
I'm really excited for this week and am
hoping that we can continue to find the people that are prepared to
hear the gospel and be baptized. We are going to keep working really
hard to hit our goals to help as many people as possible. I really am
grateful for this opportunity to serve a mission
and serve God's children. I know how important this work is and its a
privilege for me that I can help out a little bit. Thanks for the love
and support from everyone. I just want you guys to keep staying
awesome! Keep sending me emails and stuff and if
you have any specific questions I´ll try to answer them all. But have a
great week!
Love
Elder Gee
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