Training

So our week was quite fantastical. Tuesday night the zone leaders came to do some training in the area. They gave talks on focusing the work and putting all your effort where it counts most. We´ve decided that we´re only working within the area of the chapel. They spent the night and the next day we all went on splits. Wednesday was Brazil´s Independence Day, so the priesthood had a BBQ at the church. While Elder Brelaz was on splits with the zone leaders, he was able to set two baptismal dates and the next day we found a family of five that accepted the invitation to be baptized.
So now that we´re limiting our work to the area of the church, we´re walking a lot less and teaching a lot more. Our mission goal f referrals per week is 60 per companionship and this week we finally hit our goal. So now we´re going to see the promised blessing that come from it.
I feel inspired to share a story that the mission president´s wife shared. She gave an example of investigators. There exists two types of investigators: Potatoes and Shrimp. If you are to put potatoes and shrimp into two separate pots of boiling water the potatoes will get all soft and mushy and the shrimp will stay firm. Thus it is with investigators. You have the soft investigators that don´t progress and get mushy and you have the solid investigators that stay firm. The lesson was that you can´t wait for potatoes to get firm, because they won´t. Throw out the potatoes and focus on the shrimp.

Well I hope that all is well in your neck of the woods. Until next week.
Love,
Elder David Short