Prepare, Interact, and Invite!

Hey!

This week was good.

Our zone training was really good. I used to be kind of nervous giving long talks and stuff and didn’t really want to have to do them here on the mission but I feel a lot more comfortable now. I have a method…I study what I’m supposed to give like super good, Way more than I know I’ll have time to give but just so I can really understand the topic. Then I go through and think of what I want them to know and go from there.

This one was a little different because I talked about the new way to teach and tried to apply it while I gave this one. I think I did a good job. There’s a reason why DC 84:85 is on my missionary plaque. It’s helped me out a ton here. Also at BYU-I before the mission I took a public speaking class. Honestly it was kind of random that I took it because it was not part of my degree or anything. I just thought it would be fun because I liked debate in high school. Some of the skills have really helped me. A lot of things that are like not really what you should do when you speak publicly like use your hands weird, use bad examples or just weird things that everyone does that are also a little awkward to tell someone not to do and not seem rude. I don’t know if you understand me but I got rid of a lot of bad speaking habits with this class.

So this week was fun too. We really tried to put into practice the new teaching way. The prepare, interact, and invite. It’s so simple but so powerful!! Like a lot of times you have to rely a lot more on the spirit to talk. You will have a great lesson plan and want to teach a certain point next then they will say something different and you have to adapt your teaching a lot more. It’s a lot more effective and I really feel like it’s been helping us a lot.

Yesterday we had 7 people in church too which also testifies to that. We had some really weird lessons this week too.. One of the most frustrating things here is when you KNOW your teaching by the spirit but it’s almost like you can see the spirit go to them and just bounce off their hearts instead of going in... It’s really sad. Humility is really important to be able to feel the spirit. A lesson we had yesterday was a lot like that. I was just about ready to stand up and bear my testimony to this less active about Joseph Smith because he didn’t want anything to do with him and then tell him that if he didn’t humble himself he would never know. Well I basically bore my testimony like that but then I was patient and just sat frustrated for a bit. We brought 2 members with us and they helped us a lot. By the end of the lesson the guy kind of cried a bit and said he missed going to church and next week he might go. It was a big change and made me humble myself a bit for being impatient.. Anyways this new way to teach works!

Anyways we have interviews with the new president this week! It should be interesting. He’s a super great guy and I love him. I’m excited to get to know him more because it’s still weird to think that President Kusch is just chilling in Rexburg now and not here haha.  

Anyways I love you all! Have a great week

Love Elder Marrott

A baby squirrel

Baptism for Enedina and President Avila

Hey!!!

There was nothing special here for the 4th. People don’t celebrate here like Cinco de Mayo.

So we finally baptized Enedina this week! She got baptized on the 4th of July.  The baptism was super cool.  She invited a ton of her family that are not members and they had a super good experience. We are going to keep working with her daughter in law and I think her and her family could all get baptized too. It’s a little hard because their husbands are really bad people.. It’s really sad. People just don’t care or they don’t see the damage they do to their families.

We also met the new president Avila! He’s super cool! He and his wife have like 1 week now in the mission. We met them on Wednesday in Consejo and it was super cool. He hasn’t really changed too much, still the same idea of work hard according to preach my gospel. The church came out with a new way to teach though in this seminar for new presidents. You can actually see it in LDS.org. It’s really simple
1. Prepare to learn
2. Interact to edify
3. Invite to act.
Its super cool and we are actually going to have a training meeting with the whole zone to learn more about it tomorrow.

So next up to baptize will be a few weeks.. There’s one that could be close but she needs to get divorced so she can get married. But besides that she’s perfect. It’s a pretty common problem here..

Anyways love you all! Have a good week!!

Love Elder Marrott

Enedina Family at her baptism

Countryside