Monday, August 24, 2020

Week 54: A Divine Reset

 Hey y'all!! 


This week was just an average week in Austin. We posted another service ad on Facebook and got a few opportunities on that. We were able to help one lady move rocks and lay mulch. She is extremely high risk so we weren't able to meet in person at all which is kind of weird but we communicated through messenger and got the job done. 

We've been having more and more in person dinners recently too which is a great sign. Its been nice to sit down in person and finally get to meet some of these members. We've been doing a lot of zoom appointments too to remind the members that we still exist. We try and keep them short cuz a lot of families have little kids but they are great appointments. 

Also we are kicking our Facebook page (The Church of Jesus Christ in Sunset Valley and Southwest Austin) into high gear and have been posting a ton. We also go live 4 times a week, Elder Davenport and I take every Monday at 7, and share quick spiritual thoughts. Our efforts haven't shown a ton of success yet but we know it will soon. 

Elder Uchtdorf recently gave a missionary devotional that changed my thought process on online proselyting and missionary work. He mentioned that the COVID-19 pandemic was a "divine reset" on the way we do missionary work. I thought that was so enlightening. I have been looking at online proselyting as more of a "band-aid" to the temporary pandemic problem and less of the future to missionary work moving forward. I definitely feel more of a responsibility now to experiment and learn how to do this new age of missionary work. 

Anyways that's it for this week! Love and miss you all.
Elder Anderson

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