Thoughts from Mission Leadership Conference... and worn out shoes

Hello!

        This week was fun - it got a little chilly this week! It was in the 60's and I actually had to put on a long sleeve shirt. Just kidding - it was probably in the 40's and with humidity here, it actually feels cold. Don't laugh at me! It is pretty funny, though, to be out working, knocking door to door to find somebody to share our message with, and everybody keeps asking "How are you out in this cold?" when it's in the 60's. 

Missionary shoes. In a year and a half my dress shoes will look this this too. 

Edit: JUST KIDDING I have new shoes... It's fine...

         We had a lot of really great involvement from the members here in Fort Caroline this week - enough to where we actually had 9 member-present lessons, (where a church member is with us when we teach somebody who isn't).   It is hard to do sometimes because people are busy and aren't able to come out at nights a lot of the time. 

         

    There's a big emphasis to have missionaries really focusing on their purpose, which is "to invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end."  

     We focused a lot on this topic at the Mission Leadership Conference I got to attend last week.   We were also trained on using our ipads to skype in members during our teaches. With technology today, we shouldn't ever have a teach without a member present (in person, or via skype).

Getting training at Mission Leadership Conference

All the missionaries at the conference... I'm in the third row back, seventh from the left.

      So Elder Willets and I have been re-evaluating our teaching and making sure that we are focused on building people's faith from the second we meet them, instead of just teaching a history lesson about prophets, Christ's life, the Book of Mormon, etc. We've seen a lot of miracles and people have been very receptive as we've done it.

           Best wishes from Florida! Stay warm! :)

Elder McMullin

Elder Day and I at the Mission Leadership Conference last week!
Good to see him again!