Hey Everyone,
So it was really interesting the meeting I had this last
week. I thought it was going to be a departure meeting, and it kinda was.
But President wasn’t talking about our departure papers or anything. He
more wanted to talk about the "legacy we leave behind". He referred
a lot to the kind of impression we would leave on everyone before we finished
the mission. He is worried that a lot of us are going to "peacefully
leave the mission", or slowly stop working and visit all of the places we haven’t
visited yet and visit old areas instead of focusing on the mission. He
wants us to worry more about what people think about us when we leave, if they
saw us as a hard worker all the way through or missionaries that just "got
by". He mentioned to us that the last 2 months of the mission would
be the months we remember the most. So he wanted to know what our goals
were til the end of the mission.
Something else interesting was that he asked me if I would
like to stay in my area till the end of the mission. I told him I would
pray about it and talk to Elder Pike about staying with him. I felt that
it was the right thing to stay in my area, so I let him know. I also let
him know that my goal is to baptize 20 people before I finish the
mission. 20 people in one change is something that has never happened in
my zone. I will be busting my butt to get it jaja!
A cool thing happened to us at the end of this week.
We hadn’t been having much luck in the work, but we went on divisions with the
zone leaders on Friday and Elder Pike with our zone leader contacted a girl
named Brenda, which seemed like the only solid person they talked to.
When we went there on Saturday, she was there, but only because she had told us
she would be. They were remodeling their bathroom and she really needed
to be somewhere else, but she was also interested in us. So we went in
and shared something short and sweet and invited her to church. Long
story short, she loved church and had a million questions about being a member.
We know she will be a baptism with her family if we do what we are
supposed to.
Anywho, that was my week.
Love ya guys!
Elder Scott Donner
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