December 17, 2012

Hey Guys,

I felt like we had success this week even though our numbers don´t show much improvement. We doubled the number of lessons we taught with member this week which really wasn't that impressive of a number but it was hard.  We lacked in church again.  I guess we need to work more on our commitments, we also didn't find many people. But I am happy, I am enjoying my time as a district leader and am starting to get the hang of it. I hope I am being a bless to my district. One thing I have noticed more then anything is that Missionaries at least senior comps know how to work or how it should be done. Si sometimes you have to teach them something knew. But most of the time my calls and DM are used more to motivate the members of my district. It is like General Conference. They really don´t say anything new but you leave feeling refreshed and more excited to do what is right. I just have to work on doing that. As well as keep myself motivated which sometimes is harder then my District. I need to be the example in all aspects of the work. One thing I wish there was more training on was Baptism Interviews. I had my first two this passed week. One was super awesome really prepared said he was going on a mission. Luckily he was my first. I thought a lot about how it was going to go, what I was going to ask etc... when it came to it I forgot everything about what I thought would make the interview good and ended up being really short. It was probably not that great an interview but he is a super stud as Elder Navarro would say so, it was good. 

          The second interview was horrible. It was someone from another district which probably was why it was harder. I was covering for the ZLs meaning I was interviewing another DL's investigator. Elder Navarro trusts me a lot which means I do a lot of stuff to help him out. Which is alright I enjoy it. But anyway I was just kind of pushed into a room with a Baptismal Candidate from Elder ?.... District and was not informed anything of her situation. Turns out it was her third interview. The other 2 she failed something I should of know. She had a smoking problem (which I felt like she had repented of) and was living in the same house as a man but they weren´t together just friends but they had been together before. At that point I politely stopped the interview and went to talk to this Elder. He goes home in a month and half and was an Ex-zoneleader. He said it was no big deal and that she had only fail the other interviews for smoking. So I went and finished. Like an hour later I still wasn´t feeling good about it so I called the ZLs and told them about it they said they didn´t really know so I had to call the Assistants. They said they didn´t think it was a good idea. They called President and after a while he said no.  It wasn´t handled very well and I hope she can still prepare to be baptized. I feel really stupid the assistants said don´t worry about it wasn´t my fault. 

Anyway that's about it I am trying to work hard. Thanks for everything!!! 

Love Elder Wray