December 11, 2012

It was the slowest week we've had in about 2 months.  We probably needed the extra time to slow down.  We have been putting up the best numbers in the zone for a while now.  We have the trust of the members, but it isn't turning into referrals.  Yesterday (I hate you for this) I had our mission leader meet us at the church instead of his house for the coordination meeting and had a bunch of graphs looking at our statistics for the last 4 months and talking about where all of our investigators are, how many referrals we've gotten, how many investigators we've added, and how many lessons we are teaching.  To point out to him that all of the people that we are teaching live in the same neighborhoods and that everyone on all of the streets that we walk on already knows us (so they've already either accepted or rejected us before) I had him look at all of the progress records from the last 6 months, and start reading investigator's names at random.  He very quickly realized that I was getting at the idea that all of them were in the same area, and that the only ones outside of a certain 3/4 mile radius were met through members.  He asked the branch president if we could do branch council in the relief society room where I had put all that up so that we could give the same presentation to the leaders in the branch.  At least I didn't do any excel worksheets.  You can hardly tell that Christmas is coming in most parts of our area.  Especially in Pacific beach and La Jolla (the most famous parts) which missionaries have aptly nicknamed Sodom and Gomorrah.  We have been trying to get her there before, but she is throwing up lots of reasons not to listen to us.  She will come around eventually though.  Ricardo has been bearing his testimony to just about everyone he meets and is really excited to get a calling.

Never assume that I hear anything, so Rachael getting a mission call is news to me.  That is exciting for her though!  I think that they want us to call you using a calling card so that it doesn't waste church minutes.  Christmas falls on a p-day, but they're making it a normal proselyting day with a phone call.  What number do you want me to call on?  It would be easiest to do the call in the morning.  We have a dinner appt in the afternoon and then we are at the temple from 5-8:30.