From time to time missionaries write or call me and express frustration and disappointment because they have worked very hard, been very obedient, and still haven´t been blessed with baptisms. They often express concern that maybe they aren´t being a very successful missionary. It is very important that missionaries in El Faro understand how the Lord defines a successful missionary. Directly from Preach My Gospel Chapter 1 is the answer to that question. Your success as a missionary is measured primarily by your commitment to find, teach, baptize, and confirm people and to help them become faithful members of the church who enjoy the presence of the Holy Ghost. Avoid comparing yourself to other missionaries and measuring the outward results of your efforts against theirs. Remember that people have agency to choose whether to accept your message. Your responsibility is to teach clearly and powerfully so they can make a correct choice. Some may not accept your message even when they have received a spiritual witness that it is true. You will be saddened because you love them and desire their salvation. You should not, however, become discouraged; discouragement will weaken your faith. If you lower your expectations, your effectiveness will decrease, your desire will weaken, and you will have greater difficulty following the Spirit. Message From Presidente Dayton A Successful Missionary 13 de Septiembre de 2015 El Clarín de El Faro
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From time to time missionaries write or call me and express frustration and disappointment because they have worked very hard, been very obedient, and still haven´t been blessed with baptisms. They often express concern that maybe they aren´t being a very successful missionary. It is very important that missionaries in El Faro understand how the Lord defines a successful missionary. Directly from Preach My Gospel Chapter 1 is the answer to that question.
Your success as a missionary is measured primarily by yourcommitment to find, teach, baptize, and confirm people and to helpthem become faithful members of the church who enjoy the presence of the Holy Ghost.
Avoid comparing yourself to other missionaries and measuring theoutward results of your efforts against theirs. Remember that people haveagency to choose whether to accept your message. Your responsibility isto teach clearly and powerfully so they can make a correct choice. Some may not accept your message even when they have received a spiritual witness that it is true. You will be saddened because you love them and desire their salvation. You should not, however, become discouraged; discouragement will weaken your faith. If you lower your expectations, your effectiveness will decrease, your desire will weaken, and you will have greater difficulty following the Spirit.
Message From Presidente Dayton
A Successful Missionary
13 de Septiembre de 2015El Clarín de El Faro
Message From Presidente Dayton Cont.
13 de Septiembre de 2015
You can know you have been a successful missionary when you:
1) Feel the Spirit testify to people through you.
2) Love people and desire their salvation.
3) Obey with exactness.
4) Live so that you can receive and know how to follow the spirit, who
will show you where to go, what to do, and what to say.
5) Develop Christlike attributes.
6) Work effectively every day, do your very best to bring souls to
Christ, and seek earnestly to learn and improve.
7) Help build up the Church (the ward) wherever you are assigned to
work.
8) Warn people of the consequences of sin. Invite them to make and
keep commitments.
9) Teach and serve other missionaries.
10) Go about doing good and serving people at every opportunity,
whether or not they accept your message.
When you have done your very best, you may still experience
disappointments, but you will not be disappointed in yourself. You can feel
certain that the Lord is pleased when you feel the Spirit working through you.
We feel so grateful to be surrounded by so many dedicated successful
missionaries in El Faro.
Con mucho amor,
Presidente Dayton
El Clarín de El Faro
Attributes of Jesus Christ – Patience
Message From Hermana Dayton
13 de Septiembre de 2015El Clarín de El Faro
In Preach My Gospel we learn that ,"Patience is the capacity to endure delay, trouble, opposition, or suffering without becoming angry, frustrated, or anxious." When we are patient we hold up under pressure and are able to face adversity calmly.
Job is the ultimate example of patience. The suffering he endured is overwhelming. Job's seven sons and three daughters were killed, he lost all of his herds and flocks, all but three of his herdsmen were killed. In job 1:20-21 it says that Job "arose and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground and worshipped. And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord." Paul wrote "we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience, hope." Romans 5:3-4 Job blessed the Lord even after he lost everything. We learn in the scriptures that the end result of glorying in tribulation is that we experience the power of God's love through the power of the Holy ghost. In the end, the Lord praised Job and rewarded him with double of what he had taken from him.In missionary work we can apply the principle of patience as we --
1--Realize the final result of life's situations are in God's hands.
2--Realize that our investigators will all progress at different levels--some take much longer.
3--Take time to listen and understand our companions.
4--Take the time when we pray to receive promptings...to listen for the Lord to speak to us.
5--Wait for the Lord to answer our prayers in his timing.
6--As we endure trials and pain without becoming bitter.
President Monson said, "Life is full of difficulties, some minor and others of a more serious nature. There seems to be an unending supply of challenges for one and all. Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required." Patience-- A Heavenly Virtue--Ensign, Nov. 1995, pg 59.
President Dayton and I love you and feel grateful for how patient you have been with us over the last two months as we have tried to learn our responsibilities. We love you dearly and thank Heavenly father daily for the opportunity to serve with you in bringing others to Christ.