14 Jul 10 - 21 Jul 10

11:50 AM

I had a slew of things that I wanted to write about but now my brain has shut down again. I'm not required to think on P-Day so I don't. Unfortunately, it takes my brain about 8 hours to reboot.

There's this 12 year old girl who we've found through this neat program called the "Master Member Referral Maker" (that one of my Zone Leaders and his previous companion came up with) who will hopefully get baptized this weekend. She's been going to church for a long time now with her grandparents but her parents have been holding her back from getting baptized. Her mom is Inactive and her dad isn't a member. We've been trying to get the parents to come to the lessons but they refuse to. So, me and my comp talked about it and she's been ready for baptism so if her parents don't care there's no reason we should wait around any longer.

The Master Member Referral Maker works like this.

Each Axillary (HPGL, EQP, RSP, YWP, and YMP) passes out a 3x5 card to each member in their class at the beginning of the lesson. The member then puts down their name and phone number. The Axillary leader gives the members 3 to 5 minutes to let the spirit work on them. The member will only put down a name of someone they want to have the gospel in their lives (whether they be a member or nonmember). This forces the missionary to work through the member.

After the 3 to 5 minutes, the Axillary leader then teaches a lesson on the "pure doctrine of Christ." This will get the members fired up about sharing the gospel. The pure doctrine of Christ can include (but is not limited to) Christlike Attributes, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, or things Jesus Christ did to share the gospel. As long as the lesson is centered on Christ, you can't go wrong. At the end of the lesson, the members hand in their cards to the Axillary leader who then hands it in to the Ward Mission Leader. The WML compiles a list and gives a copy to the missionaries.

The missionaries cannot contact the referral on the card without the member's help. What they'll do is call the member and ask how it's going sharing the gospel with the name they wrote down and if there's anything that they (the missionaries) can do to help whether it be giving the member supplies to give to the name or stopping by the member to share a quick lesson on ways to share the gospel. This gets the members focused on missionary work and puts the progression of their name in their hands. Also, it establishes a fellowshipper from the get go.

One thing you must realize if you want to implement this is that it HAS to be done this way. There have been times when people want to change how this is done and they'll get few to no names compared to 15 or 20. I've already received over 50 names from this. I know this works! And right now I probably sound like a pyramid sales man...

Hope this fires up the missionary work in your areas!
Later
Elder Garcia