11-9-09 "13 Meses"

Well another change ended yesterday, but not much has changed. No one in the District has changes, so we will all be together again for another 6 weeks. I also completed 13 months in the mission yesterday, which is crazy to thing about. Only 11 months and I leave the field. It makes me want to work hard and take advantage of this time I have to help others come unto Christ.

We had another tough week again. It was one filled with knocking doors and looking for new people to teach. We realized that knocking doors just doesnt seem to cut it here, and that we are going to have to work different in order to find success. So we have a few ideas that we are going to try this week. The first one is an open house that we should have this weekend. Im not too excited about this one, just because it wasnt too planned, but help is help, and we will gladly accept any offers from the wards.

One of the other ideas we have is to set up in the Fayuca. Every Friday they set up a fayuca, where just a bunch of people go and set up tents and try to sell clothing and pretty much everything else. We plan to set up a table and try to just give out as many movies and pamphlets as we can. Hopefully, through just giving away a bunch of material, we can get a few references out of that activity. I think it has possibilities of working well and maybe the interested people will come to us.

The final idea we have, which will start next Sunday, is to teach the members how to invite and make references. Next Sunday, during the second hour, we will teach the members how to do the basics of missionary work. At the end of the class, we will commit each family to invite 2 other families that they know to listen to the missionaries or participate in a family home evening.

We hope that with some more participation of the members, we can get some more going as for the mission work. Its gonna be tough, but that makes it fun at the same time.

Its kinda a boring letter, but right now we are in the ground and pound stage. Just a lot of knocking and contacting, looking for the ones who are ready to accept this message.

Its gotten a lot cooler here, Id say about mid 80s and in the night down to the 60s, so its really nice. Im enjoying the mission a ton and Im greatful to the Lord that I can be a missionary and that i am able to testify to people everyday about the Restoration. I hope you all have a great week!

Con amor, Elder Turley