Hola Familia,
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| Members + Missionaries: Sisters Wilson, Delfina, and Ludlam |
Hermana Wilson sigue siendo potente ( is still powerful, strong, effective).
Mum was telling me in her letter how in the Mission Prep
class they were learning to start their lesson plans with commitments. YES! The
commitment serves as the WHY and the POINT of teaching. If your teaching
doesn't result in a specific ACTION, you're probably wasting time (that is a
good rule of thumb for every teaching situation ever, I think).
In your objective to invite people to come unto Christ, the
investigator you are teaching must do two things:
- Build faith in Christ and repent.
- The commitments do both. The act of doing the commitment is the physical act of repenting, and as we obey commandments we gain faith that what Christ commands us to do really works and really is the best.
Orienting the lesson around commitments also gives you a MEASUREMENT,
something to measure the efficacy of your teaching-- At the end of the day, did
they keep the commitment or did they not?
Also super important-- the commitment is your OBJECTIVE. If
your lesson doesn't have an objective, it will be long and confusing and...
long. We first choose a specific goal and then ask, “What do they not
understand that is keeping them from that commitment?”--and that is what we
teach. 90% of the time the answer to that question is the material in the five
lessons (and usually in order), but highlighting a specific topic.
Something that has been helping me a lot the past weeks is
learning how to SIMPLIFY my perspective, which I think is really the same thing
as having an eternal perspective. I’ve realized I need to ask myself in
situations when I feel depressed or tense: “What is really going on
here?” And usually I can respond something like, “I am just looking for an address
that is hard to find” or “I am just trying to put in action the counsel of our
president, and of course, it’s not going to go perfectly at first” or “I am
just laboring as a worker en la work of salvation” or “I am just trying to
convince someone to repent, and of course, Satan is going to be trying to work
against that” or “I am trying to teach a foreign concept to a child of God with
very little spiritual education.” Seeing things in the eternal perspective
makes it possible to feel hopeful and happy and not get frustrated.
Someone asked what they do for Dia de Los Muertos. It’s three days long-- the first day (Oct 31)
is the day for niños that have died, the next day is for everybody else, and I
never found out what the third day was for. People don’t do a whole lot except
make special types of food-- there are pibis
which are these GIANT tamales that are round instead of rectangular. People do
make pan de muertos, but I didn’t see a whole lot of that. And there are lots
of candies that people sell in the streets at night outside of their houses
that I never tried. I didn’t see very many altars, but I know they make one in
the schools. And most people go to a special, enormous mass that they hold in
the cemetery. And that’s about it. From what I saw, it wasn’t a very big deal.
But the pibis are rico!
OH! As a mission we are going to memorize ALL
the scripture mastery scriptures and if we memorize the first 25 from El Libro de Mormon
before Dec, 1st, we.... GET TO DO A SESSION
IN THE TEMPLE!! AHH! Granted, it’s
the session at 4:30 in the morning, but I
don’t think that fazes anyone. Ahh...the temple!
Feel free to join me by learning 25 scriptures before the first of December
and rewarding yourself by going to the temple.
(Lia’s sister, Jenna, might beat
her!)
Much love,
Hermana Ludlam
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