Success! Elder Jones and the area are improving!
Elder Jones decided that he was on board with the whole "Become a Senior Companion" challenge that the president has for him. We are working on helping him build his self-esteem, confidence and changing his habits of not saying anything and not making any decisions. He has set a goal to make more decisions each day, have an opinion when I ask for it and to change his expectations about himself and the way he works. I have him doing the positive self-image trick that I used to help myself build confidence and hope it does the same thing for him.
As far as the work in the area is concerned, things are picking up. We continue to find more and more people who are interested in the gospel and that is great. Add to that, the fact that Brother Bird, the new WML, is on fire and intent on setting the ward on the same course and we are in good shape.
Got a chance to talk to a preacher in training and it was interesting to see how close he was to right just by studying the Bible. He wasn't interested but we did commit this open minded man to read the Book of Mormon when he had some time. I would like to see him have the realization.
Got to teach a new investigator named Juanita Rodriguez. She speaks about as much Spanish as I do and has a husband that speaks only a little English. It was funny to learn that and I laughed at the fact that his name is Eric! It is all a little mixed up, but they are interested in learning more and the whole BOM being from the Americas was cool for them. Now we just have to hope that a testimony will get her over years of agoraphobia.
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