We helped out at a homeless shelter last week with a bunch of Americans. It was a shelter run by the catholic church. They fed them a Thanksgiving meal; it was really great to see the reactions of all the kids each open up a christmas gift. They were all so cute. There were also a couple Italian nuns running around. I felt like I was in the Sound of Music. Dont worry, we took pictures with them. Elder Hatch was asked to give the prayer- which was a bit ironic since we were at a catholic function haha. As he gave the prayer, there continued to be camera flashes and one of the nuns continued to have a loud phone call. When the prayer ended, Sorella Bair and I opened our eyes to find everyone standing the room. Interesante...
I conducted the activity at District meeting last week. I talked about how we could be more effective about receiving referrals from the ward members. I totally incorporated the Blodgett-Higgins technique with the paper chain of links and rap idea (although I didnt rap for them, Sorella BAir and I seriously considering making one up. She is a mean beat-boxer).
The idea is that every family is given a chain of links and everytime someone in the family invites someone to an activity and or invites someone to talk to the missionaries, they rip a link off. Once every link is gone, the missionaries give a prize to the family! We even demonstrated it for the district: Sorella Bair and I did short and sweet roleplay of how the chain of links technique worked. She pretended to be the member and me, the missionary.
Me: How are you?
member: Great! I talked my friend about the church today!
Me: Yay (hands the paper chain to her)
Member: rips one link off
Haha everyone loved it. We then roleplayed member referral invites.
Members are so effective in this missionary work! I found an awesome quote in Preach my gospel by President Benson: *Memer-missionary work is one of the great keys to the individual growth of our members. It is my conviction that member missionary work will raise the spirituality in any ward where applied*
What a powerful, true statement! The Short Hills Ward really thrived and grew stronger! Keep inviting:)
The italian men are interesting. The other day, sorella BAir and I were stopped by man with his arms wide open (as if he was giving us a hug) and he said, *Siete bellisime!* (you are beautiful!) A total stranger.
I love teaching english course! Our students love us too! We taught them about restaurant words last week. When we were teaching action words, it was my turn to teach the word *to eat*. The first question that came out was *Giuseppe, do you eat food?* and the funniest thing is that when we speak, we have to speak very slowly. Haha, lets hope he eats food. OH we tried out an awesome teaching technique for english course. We usually will share a spiritual thought at the end of the lesson-just a scripture and sharing of testimony. This time, we handed out pieces of paper and had each of them secretively write a question of their own about the Mormon church or about religion in general. We received some awesome questions! Like: how is mormon church different from the Catholic church? or do you believe in life after death? SUCH GOLDEN QUESTIONS. Each time, we will pick a question to answer!
I love being a missionary. I have been studying the gospel of Jesus Christ lately and came across 3 Nephi 27. The gospel of Jesus Christ is simply to become like Christ. We must put on the character of Christ, by following him and obeying His commandments and then *we will be lifted up on high*. There are such beautiful promises given to those who follow Him.
Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Sister Clyde
ps. Mount Etna totally erupted again!! HAHAH. lava spurting out and everything. Where am I?
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