Thank you so much for sending that stuff. That's good that it will be there on Friday because that's when we do weekly planning and we don't leave the apartment until 2 PM that day lol. Everything I need should have been in the bag, so it should be all right. Thanks again so much :)
That's so awesome that Kristen is with the missionaries! :D Are there sister missionaries in the university ward, or are there Elders? The percentage of people that get baptized increases dramatically when they are taught with a member, and it goes up even higher when they are taught in the member's home. So that's sweet that Kristen is with them. Helps out a lot! Just to put things into perspective about how important member missionary work is... We have a goal in this mission to talk to about 80 people a week. Since that goal isn't always reached, and there are other missions (like in Utah) that don't really tract at all, I averaged the number of contacts per week to 30. If there are about 50,000 missionaries in the world, missionaries talk to about 39,000,000 people every year. The average number of baptisms per year is around 200,000 and a third of those come from part member families... so yeah lol. Us talking to people isn't all that effective. That's why it's essential for members to find people for us to teach. 130,000 baptisms (that's counting that all baptisms other than part member families come from contacts... and they don't) out of 39 million isn't a good average lol. So that's why member missionary work is so important. Because all in all according to the statistics, missionaries are lousy finders haha.
It's supposed to be cooler this week than it has been lately. High 70s low 80s. I'm excited for that!
That's a bummer about the school thing dwindling :/ That's amazing that Matthew is so far ahead though! :D That's awesome. What a smart little dude.
Love you too! Hope your week goes well!
Talk to you next week.
Coop
~ and he promised there are pictures coming ~
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