Missionary tactics that work!!!!
Before my mission president was called to his current calling, he owned a used car business in Orem, Utah. He had a very successful business, and he's helped us all improve our missionary abilities with some very successful strategy. Here's what he told us:
1. Have your investigator sit down across from you around the table. Make sure that your chair is always higher, so that you are looking down on them.
2. Once you have them in the right position, you can then move into the negotiating. He said to write down the date that you want the investigator to get baptized on a napkin, slide it to the investigator face down, and then look at them directly in the eye (the President said non-verbal communication is key)
3. Then make sure you hand them a pen from your own pocket, so it looks like you're giving them the ability to make the decision. Wait for them to write down their counter offer to the date of their baptism.
4. Look at the date they wrote down and shake your head like you can't do this date. Then tell the investigator that you'll have to go to the back room and talk to God to see if this date can work.
5. Leave the room and walk to into the back room, make sure you shut the door. After 10 minutes, come back out with the final offer on a new napkin. Make sure that the date is only a few days earlier than the initial offer you gave to the investigator. Tell them that's as far as God will allow us to go. And you really tried praying to him about it, but that's God's final offer.
This is such a miracle!!! It's worked 5 times already with my senior comp and I, and I can't wait to use it more!!!
The President is so inspired!!! I love my mission!!!
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Monday - Day 21
Fun things that happened this past week:
Last thursday Elder Rogers, my senior companion, and I had a meeting with the President. I couldn't really tell what was going on so I just humbly followed what my senior companion did. He moved, I moved. He talked, I talked. He sat down, I sat down.
We showed up to his house and we waited a little while, we sit down and then President hands Elder Rogers and I a piece of paper that has nothing to do with teaching simply, which is why we thought we were there.
- He told us to stop contacting and only serve people. Find ways to serve and find people that way. Get referrals from people. Go to hospitals and tell them we are ordained ministers.
- Go to homeless shelters and work with people and DO NOT work with the homeless people themselves, we don't have time to work with them right now, instead work with the good people who work at these places.
- Only teach Males of leadership age and families. President gave us a perfect lesson about Gods plan for families. It was amazing and only about 10 minutes. Invite people to dinner.....do whatever the Lord prompts us to do but don't contact and harvest. Find new investigators by other means.
1. Find families that can be the leaders (He said in a few days there will be families found)
2. Find a place where we can have a "learning center". Where we can meet with people we find.
3.Then when there is enough members to form a branch we need to find a church building.
I'm sure happy the President said not to teach the bums. I've had a couple powerful experiences with them so far in my mission, but they are smelly. Also, they don't have very good manners.
One time my senior comp and I decided to take a bum home with us to clean him up. As we were disrobing him, I could not believe the foul stench coming from his nether regions. I almost had to put my arm to the square and rebuke the devilish smells in the name of Joseph Smith.
Anywhoo, we started talking to Michael (that's the bum's name) about the gospel, and when I got to the first vision, there was this spirit in the room. I asked Michael if he felt it, and he said yes. Then I committed him to being baptized by an official representative of Jesus H. Christ. He said that he wanted to be baptized.
So, my senior comp decided to baptize him in our bathtub. The only problem was that our bathtub wasn't very big, and Michael was there half-naked in the tub coming up and down for air. My comp just kept dunking him under, but as he would push his head down, Michael's feet would pop up.
Eventually, after holding his head under water for a good couple minutes, Michael (the bum) finally stopped fighting and was baptized.
The spirit was so strong. So, so, sooooooo strong.
I love my mission!!! I love the church!!!!!
Last thursday Elder Rogers, my senior companion, and I had a meeting with the President. I couldn't really tell what was going on so I just humbly followed what my senior companion did. He moved, I moved. He talked, I talked. He sat down, I sat down.
We showed up to his house and we waited a little while, we sit down and then President hands Elder Rogers and I a piece of paper that has nothing to do with teaching simply, which is why we thought we were there.
- He told us to stop contacting and only serve people. Find ways to serve and find people that way. Get referrals from people. Go to hospitals and tell them we are ordained ministers.
- Go to homeless shelters and work with people and DO NOT work with the homeless people themselves, we don't have time to work with them right now, instead work with the good people who work at these places.
- Only teach Males of leadership age and families. President gave us a perfect lesson about Gods plan for families. It was amazing and only about 10 minutes. Invite people to dinner.....do whatever the Lord prompts us to do but don't contact and harvest. Find new investigators by other means.
1. Find families that can be the leaders (He said in a few days there will be families found)
2. Find a place where we can have a "learning center". Where we can meet with people we find.
3.Then when there is enough members to form a branch we need to find a church building.
I'm sure happy the President said not to teach the bums. I've had a couple powerful experiences with them so far in my mission, but they are smelly. Also, they don't have very good manners.
One time my senior comp and I decided to take a bum home with us to clean him up. As we were disrobing him, I could not believe the foul stench coming from his nether regions. I almost had to put my arm to the square and rebuke the devilish smells in the name of Joseph Smith.
Anywhoo, we started talking to Michael (that's the bum's name) about the gospel, and when I got to the first vision, there was this spirit in the room. I asked Michael if he felt it, and he said yes. Then I committed him to being baptized by an official representative of Jesus H. Christ. He said that he wanted to be baptized.
So, my senior comp decided to baptize him in our bathtub. The only problem was that our bathtub wasn't very big, and Michael was there half-naked in the tub coming up and down for air. My comp just kept dunking him under, but as he would push his head down, Michael's feet would pop up.
Eventually, after holding his head under water for a good couple minutes, Michael (the bum) finally stopped fighting and was baptized.
The spirit was so strong. So, so, sooooooo strong.
I love my mission!!! I love the church!!!!!
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