Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Ian,
Boy, I've got quite a bit to write about. Well first, I
have a new companion now! His name is Elder Tillmond, from Las Vegas. Man, he’s
a greenie, fresh from the MTC, but he's pretty ready to be here! He's got a
great work ethic and is super excited to work here. He also listens to the Holy
Spirit really well, so that's super helpful. His sensitivity to the Spirit has
actually helped out a lot here.
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Finding people in this area has become really hard
recently. Not only that, the people we're teaching has become really flaky. Not
the best way to start a mission :P But we fasted on Sunday and Elder Tillmond
thought about trying to help the ward become more involved. The ward is cool,
but they're pretty complacent when it comes to helping the ward grow. They also
rely a little too much on us to grow the ward. What Elder Tillmond and I want
to do is to help them realize that the growth of the ward is their
responsibility too. So, for the next few weeks, that will be our biggest focus;
visiting members and ward leaders and training them a little bit on how their
calling can help the work. We're also going to get Bishop to start the Preach
My Gospel class started up. This ward has no ward missionaries. We want to
teach the ward that we need their help, and with it, the work can advance 10
times faster. Maybe our numbers will be a little lower for a bit, but this will
help us in the long run here. I'm just glad I have a companion who is ready and
excited to work as I am!
Well, the Family History Fair was this past week and I
gotta say, it wasn't as successful as I hope it would be. This is partly what we
had planned to focus on helping the ward. The Stake made 4000 invitations for
this activity, and divided them among the 6 wards to invite people. Each
companionship of missionaries was given at least 200 to invite, and we gave
them all out. The rest went to the members. Well, the night of the fair, there
were only about 80 or less people there, and most of them were members. My
companion and I invited more than 200 people and NONE of them showed up. My new
companion and I talked a bit about how we felt about that and we both agreed
that there needs to be a change. So, we'll be focused on how we can improve the
work ethic of the ward. We're both excited to get started!
Hopefully, we can get some good work done here! If we're
able to get the ward to work better with us and if we can have better meetings
with the ward about the missionary work by the time I leave this area, I'll be
satisfied. It's a personal goal of mine to leave an area better than I found
it. I'll write you all again next week! Thank you so much for all your support
and love! Miss you all!
-Elder Froude
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