First off, I'm so freaking jealous that you guys were all in
Lake Powell! That's twice now that I've not been there and you all have
been. Lake Powell is seriously like my favorite place on earth. Many of my
fondest family memories come from our times there. I'm so happy that I'll get
to go next year though! I hope you all treasure those great family times together
because one day you'll be in my position where you can't go and you have to see
everybody else make memories without you. I can't wait for next year Lake
Powell!
So this past week we had our Zone Conference with President
I and he's really cool and I'm super happy about the direction he's wanting
to take the mission in. He presented a new key indicator which we just call the
"Balance/ 555," which is super cool.
Basically, it just means that
the idea is to have balance in our focus. As in, if we get an investigator
lesson, we should also try to get an active member lesson and a less-active
member lesson. If we have 2 in one category, we should try to bring the others
up to 2 as well. The 555 thing came from another mission where the idea was to
have 5 of each. Here, that's basically impossible. But the idea of balance is
what we're focusing on, and that's totally possible.
President I is really
trying to get the mission as a whole to focus on people instead of numbers.
Before, we kept track of our hours finding and potential investigators
received, which are good things to keep track of ideally, but many people took
that as to just walk around for hours without really doing anything, or to take
down numbers of crazy people or gypsies or just write down apartment numbers of
people that weren't even really interested. Basically it just kind of stressed
people out a lot and made many people just try to get as many hours outside as
possible, which could lead them to neglect the members or other worthwhile
activities in favor of getting hours to look good to president.
I liked the
idea when President H introduced it, but lately it's just kind of proven to
help only mostly superficially. But this new 555 thing really is going to help.
Me and Elder D are already planning to do a lot and I'm really excited.
This new direction just frees up our time to not have to worry about just
contacting all day; instead we're supposed to spend our time having lessons,
which historically has either not really happened, or people would meet with
crazy people all the time just to put down that they had lessons. But man I
just really like this idea.
I'll let you know what happens there!
Romania's great. A while ago a saw a guy using a buzz saw to
cut a piece of tile in half. He was wearing flip-flops. His foot was right next
to the saw. I just love Romania's IDGAF vibe. I'm pretty sure that's why they
also build and insulate all their buildings with styrofoam:
Haha but no really things are going pretty well still. I'm
just really excited for how the missions going and I really think things are
going to start picking up!
Love all of you!
-Elder DeGraw
P.S. There was a Lunar Eclipse that I just happened to see
and got a crappy picture of:
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