Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Letter 03-12-2013

Hi,

Not much time to email today. We've got a special opportunity today to leave the mission and go to the Jordan River temple, so that's taking up most of the day. We even get to eat in the cafeteria :)

Bernie's baptism went AWESOME. He's been being prepared for a long time - it just took a little friendliness to get him where he's now at. I had the chance to do the confirmation; what a thrill (and a little bit of a scare). But it was also cool beans.

So yep back to finding. Got lessons set up with a couple pretty promising potentials this week so we'll see how things turn out.

Elder Chandler
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thought: teaching skills

Elder Bloomfield and I have had some great, productive companionship studies over this transfer. The thing we've probably hit most is teaching skills, particularly asking questions, listening, and bearing testimony. We've concluded that 90% of the lesson should be those three things, and only 10% hard teaching.

We had the first counselor in the mission presidency stop by for our comp study this morning. Without knowing he was doing it he solidified everything we had taught each other and gave us the final piece to our puzzle - the 30-45 minute lesson plans in PMG. Know/memorize those statements, and those can be our 10% teaching. Everything else is questions, listening, and testimony. Kinda cool. So get familiar with those bullets brothers!

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