Letter from Cameron October 29th 2012
This week has been great my companion is super good he and I have worked really well together and he has taught me a lot I but I want more time with him to learn more but he will go home on Friday so we will see what happens. This week we have worked well but it has been difficult in another way because week we received a training meeting on new mission rules and the new way to work here in the mission and it’s super weird. Elder Johnson, Area President of Mexico has officially decided that missionaries in all of México City and other parts of México will not contact in the street nor will they knock doors ever again! That’s crazy! They say that we have to start working better and the way we were working before was wrong. Now all we can do is ask for references and visit less-actives. So what we have now is a list of 50 less actives of which we have to teach and bring them back to activity these less actives are chosen by the bishops and should be people who don’t have very many problems there just kind of lazy so we as missionaries will work with the people most likely to return to activity. It’s really weird-- every time I pass somebody in the street I always want to contact them and I feel like I should so it has been pretty tough but we are getting used to it. When my companion found out the new rules he kind of got a little down on the whole thing. He had this “feels like we have to learn something all over again and why learn it when he is going home in 10 days” attitude. But he helps me out and told me that he will do whatever I want. But we are doing well. So this Friday he takes off and I will be with other missionaries in a trio until transfers on Tuesday so we will see what happens. I called the assistants (they live one area away from me super close) and I am going to see if I can go hang out with them for a couple of days to learn how to work better with the changes in the mission. But I will not be doing any contacting or knocking doors. The bishop is kind of worried because if the ward doesn’t help us out by looking for investigators or people to teach then the mission president will take the missionaries out of the ward which is like a death sentence here in México. The US elders are just like members that baptize every once in a while but here missionaries are everything.
Without missionaries your ward is bound to fail. So the bishop has started doing family home evenings every night with members and the members have to bring their friends the FHE. That’s how we will now find people to teach. It’s kind of crazy lots of people say it’s a waste of time. I think that it’s a little bit more difficult but all in all I think it will be good so that everybody has a friend at church.
President Hinckley said that every convert needs 3 things a friend, the word, and a responsibility. So this will hopefully help out. it’s that some people get confirmed and then they’re "clean from sin" and don’t understand that going to church has anything to do with it. It’s like a onetime deal. How silly.
Anyway what’s up with Sean Merkle? Where the heck is that kid?
Is Zack going to go on the mission early now that the rules have changed?
I heard Brynlee had her 12th birthday and I totally forgot. I got a super sweet letter from Brynlee like 3 weeks ago with drawings and what not it was pretty sweet. I hope she is doing good and enjoying her days now that she is 12 she is in young women’s right. How cool. Tell her happy birthday for me.
Anyway a little bit of changes that we are experiencing but I think it’s for the best I think once all the elders get used to the system it will be better and we will hopefully baptize more. There are many elders and ward members that have told us just to contact and knock doors and forget what Elder Johnson says. But that sounds kind of silly to me because we are called by a prophet to do what he wants and these are his orders. That we don’t knock doors or contact. That’s like saying that we know better than God and his servants here on the earth.
Anyway everything’s good and the work will go onward.
Elder Hendricks
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