Mission Email

 

Dear Parents,

 

It was a great week in the Kansas Wichita Mission.

 

We completed training and interviews. Your missionary learned about teaching with boldness, repetition, and extending clear invitations, including bold invitations to baptism. They learned about the importance of teaching “baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost”. They learned about the “pipeline”. You can ask them about that.

 

We learned from them the ways that they are finding people to teach. They are searching names on Facebook and sending messages to those who respond to their friend request. They are serving so many people. We are waiting for them to ask us if they buy a lawnmower can the mission reimburse them for it?! They are delivering cookies – one district calls this “cookie miracles”. They are talking to people in Walmart, the walking trail, and the park. They are talking to people while they fish on p-day. They are creating Facebook groups. They are joining Facebook groups. They are contacting previously taught people. You’d be so proud of them – they call people on the phone! They are advertising on Facebook classified to hand-paint scripture covers, deliver a singing telegram, bring them a free copy of The Book of Mormon. They are washing the windows of businesses, they are painting benches in local schools, they are having car washes. They are teaching members and asking for their friends to teach.

Aren’t they wonderful?!

 

We are having success with our advertising on Facebook. Our ads have generated 8 referrals and 86 people who have responded personally to what they saw about baptism, the Word of Wisdom, connecting with God, and how to strengthen their family.

 

We have 527 – 1399 people visiting our mission Facebook pages every day. Our missionaries are using the lessons from Preach My Gospel as their content in creating posts and videos. Truth is being taught on Facebook.

 

Covid update:

We continue to wear masks and keep social distance.

Missionaries are not allowed into homes of members or non-members.

They continue to be allowed to teach lessons outside and wearing masks. Otherwise their lessons are taught using technology.

 

We were able to attend the Oklahoma City temple this past week with our first group of missionaries who entered the mission field unendowed. Thank you, parents for your help in making this a special day for your missionaries. Currently, we have two more trips planned for the 9^th and 15^th of September.

 

Transfers happen this week! We are saying goodbye to Sister Denieka Bowden, Sister Anna Petersen, and Sister Taylor Strock. We will miss these wonderful Sisters. We will welcome 13 missionaries, tomorrow afternoon.

 

Thank you for supporting your missionary.

We love them.

Sister Ernst