New Year, New Work

This week was crazy. Between exchanges and baptismal interviews I spent very little time working in my own area. So the 

The Ward keeps working

Last week I mentioned a mother and son that were baptized and how the ward is integrating them. It was cool Saturday after the son's baptism that he went out with a group of members to eat Esfihas and socialize. They invited us to go as well but because of the time we couldn't stay out that late. It all worked out in the end though because they came by and dropped off some at our house for us as well. The members also received our other investigators really well when they went to church for the first time this sunday.

Raising the Bar

So our President gave us a challenge with the new year to have a high number of baptismal dates marked this week as a mission. He had us all at the leadership counsel the week before decide on a challenging goal per companionship and then had us as leaders each shake his hand to say that we would do everything possible so that all the missionaries in our zones or districts would accomplish the goal. It made the week turn into craziness because on tuesday and wednesday I went to other areas on exchange to help those missionaries mark lots of baptismal dates and do interviews for their investigators. Then on Thursday my companion stayed in our area working with some Returned Missionaries on exchange while I went to another city on exchange with another member that is preparing for his mission to do baptismal interviews for the sisters in our zone. Through all this craziness and more baptismal interviews on Saturday every companionship in our zone was able to clear the goal for baptismal dates and there were quite a few baptisms as well!! It was super cool to see the excitment that our zone had as we went out and were able to raise the bar because of high goals. 

Hope you all have high goals as well this year. Do what you haven't done before.

If we set out to make a paper airplane, we can it with your own capacity,

If we set out to build a great ship, we'll have to trust the Lord like Nefi.

It all depends on what we DESIRE

Have a great week!!

Elder DP