We realized something this week. It´s hard to get people to let you into their house to teach a lesson. We also realized that if we simply start teaching the first lesson during they initial contact things go a lot better. It´s pretty much:
"How are you?"
"Call me elder."
"What´s your name?"
"We are missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints and we have a message for you. It is simple and easy to comprehend....(entire First lesson)"
This has worked way better than our old system as it allows a person to feel the spirit and generally people accept the invitation to learn more.
We have also been trying to excite the ward and get the ball rolling. It´s the reason that we are giving an English class. The weird thing is this is probably my most nervous time of the week. You know, speaking in English. Personally, I don´t think that I will grow up to be an English teacher, but it is a good experience. Some of the people there have better grammar than an American. People think how we ask someone´s age is funny, 'how old are you?'(como velho você está). Here they ask; 'how many years do you have?'
We have succeeded in gaining one member´s trust and he has given us a few referrals. He even goes out to visit them with us. We usually drop by his house to walk with him and it is fun to be in his house as he has 4 kittens, their parents and 4 puppy's and their parents all running around together. We have a noite Familiar planned in their house today (I´ll try to remember my camera).
Randoms:
* I had someone ask me how many kids I had
* People don´t believe that I am only 19. When will I actually look my age? I hope not to look 45 when I´m 30.
Elder Quain
English Class
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