Today we had an excelent companionship study where we talked
about how we could improve our teaching methods and use of time. We concluded
with us needing to be more focused on those who were prepared by god to recieve
us. Many Missionaries in Tacna believe that we must prepare and teach our investigators
and help them to find their testimony, however, Preach my Gospel teaches us to
FIND, TEACH, INVITE. That is all we can do. Preach my gospel does NOT say that
we must force the spirit into someones life by teaching them OVER and OVER and
OVER AGAIN. We must be effecient Missionaries and the lord will to the
preparing we just need to do the Finding the Teaching and the Inviting. This
last week we found Three people ready to baptize. THEY WERE PREPARED BY THE
LORD and all we had to do was find them. I know that The Gospel Changes lives
but if we continue to teach people who are not prepared it would be like
trying to bathe a cat. You might be able to do it, but the likelyhood of that
happening is a lot better when we work with the will of God. The gospel is like
a river. We need to help every that wants to go with it. Some people might be
already trying to go with the flow of the gospel but they are tangeled in reeds
of doubt. Others are actively marching upstring. We must help those who let us
help.
Elder Tanner
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