FW: how to repair

Dear Mom and Dad 25 April 2010

Things have gone well this week all things considered. We have
made a lot of progress that was very much needed. This week is week number
one of the transfer and we are doing all the necessary preparations for
weeks 2 through 6 and even for the next two transfers.

We were able to teach Amy this week. She is sweet,
nothing can get her down. She has received a lot of opposition these past
few weeks but she is so resilient. We have been helping her along through a
very long and tiresome repentance process. The way she came in contact with
the church were not in the normal conventional ways of watching a television
ad, or having missionaries talking to her. It is a miracle that we are even
teaching her. In my second transfer here Elder Hancock and I made the
choice to start going to the Riverside ward on Sunday along with our normal
ward. The reason we deceived to do this was so that we could inspire the
Riverside ward to be more missionary minded; we hoped that by having
missionary leaders in the ward that they might see it as a chance to utilize
the missionaries and get more organized. So, on the Sunday that Amy came to
church wanting to learn more about the church she talked to Elder Hancock.
We were at the right place at the right time, for the right person.

This week we were interviewed by some high school students for
an AP English project. It was an amazing experience. They were doing some
comparing of the different churches here in Tulsa. They brought with them a
video camera and sound equipment and filmed the whole interview. They said
they are going to send us a DVD next week with their final project, so I
will send that home so you can see how things went.

We had 11 new missionaries come into the mission this transfer.
All 11 of them are outstanding, they are defiantly better then I was when I
first came out. As we sat down with them and did some role plays it was very
apparent that they were prepared and ready for the people they are called to
serve here. New missionaries always bring a new excitement into the mission.
As you sit in the room with all of them you can just feel their faith and
anxiety. It's good to know who the mission's hands will be in a few months.

We are focusing the mission now on being better planners and
using daily and weekly planning as times to show the Lord that we are
prepared disciples that He can send His prepared people to. We have created
several power points that we are using to teach and instruct missionaries on
how to better use goal setting and plan making principles that some of us
older missionaries have learned to use. 75% of our mission is missionaries
who have only been out under a year. The younger the mission the more time
you spend training and that's what we have been doing these past six months.
In the next three transfers we are going to be losing the bulk of our
leadership and its going to require younger missionaries to step up and take
on some of the responsibilities. We older missionaries have the
responsibility to pass on what we have learned so that the mission can
continue to grow. I am excited to see how Zone Conference's goes this
transfer and to see how the missionaries apply what is taught.

I love you and thank you for all that you are doing. I will be
writing another tape this week filling you more in about things.

Love your son,
Elder Kelly Conrad