Monday, July 19, 2010

New companion in Gillette

Elder Flannery is a cool kid, I get along with him fairly well personality wise, missionary wise, there's a little left to desire, it seems that most of the time I have to give him that little push that he needs to want to go out and try to see people. But oh well, we get along and have alot of the same interests. So it all works out in the end. We have 10 missionaries in Gillette, and I wish I could say a lot was going on... 2nd ward before I got here was teaching the least amount of lessons per week, not we're teaching the most, and it still seems like no real progress is happening... All of our legitimate investigators, are eternal investigators who have been taught for upwards of 2 years+ each... We REALLY need to get new investigators, and we have been trying, but truth be told, tracting does not work very well at all, we still go out and tract every chance we get, but have managed to find nothing but bashers. There is actually an interesting statistic attached to it, 1/ 1000 people that investigate from tracting are baptized. 187/ 1000 that investigate from referrals are baptized, and 864/1000 that are given to us from members that investigate are baptized. Tracting really doesn't work very well, we still do it because we have to, but the more the members get involved in missionary work and teach the people they meet, and invite the missionaries over, the better the work goes.