Hey guys!
This week was neat, we had zone conference and interviews and all sorts of awesomeness. To start off was zone conference. We left fairly early to get there and it was really cool. President said some great things and the zone leaders gave a great lesson on boldness. "If we don't know how to teach, we're going to lose, and we're going to lose a lot [...] our lessons are works of art." Our lessons are works of art and they need to be worthy of being signed by the spirit. Also the boldness thing, we need to be bold in the manner of Christ. We can't be too bold, nor not bold enough but bold in the manner of Christ. If we are too bold we will be focusing on numbers and lessons and never people. If we aren't bold enough, we will be focusing on friends and comfort. If we are bold after the manner of Christ we will be focusing on teaching people with lessons and helping them as individuals to come unto Christ.
Next up on the list, we have Cascais! This Saturday we had an activity with the zone to help out the branch in Cascais. They have probably the most amazing chapel I have ever seen. It looks out from the mountain towards the sea and is pretty much a mansion. It even has a deck pool! They don't use it anymore but its there! You walk in to see this curved staircase going upstairs with the prophets lining the walls. It was amazing. That day we had an open house inviting people to tour the chapel. The hardest thing for them though is the location. The chapel is pretty much hidden so its hard to get people there so we did contacts all day inviting people to the chapel. It was way fun. Met some Jehovahs Witnesses who gave us a hard time about family history, met a guy named Oo-Oo-Oo-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha who gave me 5 thank you's and only gave my comp 4 (he made that clear) and I placed a pass along card on a Ferrari. Oh man, tell me it wasn't awesome.
Unfortunately no one showed up for church. It was a sad but the sacrament still was wonderful as always. Then for the finale, on Sunday we were in-charge of doing the third and final hour for the relief society and the priesthood combined. We had it down in the sacrament hall. So, what did we do? We did a theatre! I was the reference, Elder Taylor was the member, and Elder Ramos and Simpson were the missionaries! We showed three situations, 1) missionaries asking for references, 2) teaching with the missionaries, and 3) welcoming investigators to church! With each of these we showed examples of what not to do and what to do that works. It was super awesome. Everyone was laughing and it also got the point across really nicely. The members were extremely involved with telling each other what they need to do to help the investigators feel welcome and what not. The ward mission leader was SO happy, as was the bishop. We now have soo many invitations to go and eat and peoples houses. We are really excited and hope this makes a big difference in our ward! We also really hope it lasts and not just something for this group of missionaries.
It was a good week, this next week is going to be crazy. We have a mission conference of sorts with Elder Dykes along with a division in another area and ward mission council! Hopefully we will be able to get some solid work in!!
Well, I love you guys! Pray for opportunities to share the gospel with those around you. Then do it!
Love,
Elder Cordon
Yeah, definitely Caiscais!
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