When In Rome

So, this week went really well!

We found TWO new investigators in one week, and we got to teach a lot more! which always makes you feel like your doing something useful. :)

Elder Struve and I have been brainstorming ways to find new people. I didn't realize this when I was being trained here, but San Francisco is nothing like any of my other areas. It's busy. Lots of foot traffic. And people don't really like stopping to talk to you out of a whim. Most of the people we can have full conversations with are people waiting for the bus or people we sit next to on the subway.  But it hasn't really been working out for us.

Elder Struve and I were brainstorming the other day of ways we can increase our finding, and we thought of a couple new things we're going to try:

Street Performing!  We both play guitar, and our singing isn't too bad, so in the next couple weeks or so, we're going to ask around the ward to see if we can borrow some guitars, set up a table downtown somewhere and just play some hymns and pass out some pamphlets! :)

We'll probably try to get some other missionaries involved too so that as we're playing, they can be talking to people and getting addresses and phone numbers.

No Idea if it's a good idea or not. We haven't tried it.

We're also going to work through Taquerias! (that means Mexican restaurants) We already tried this this last week and it worked really well for us. Basically we're going to go into a few different Spanish restaurants and ask if we can put our pamphlets on display with a "Free" sign by it. We did it this last week and all of the pamphlets were gone by the end of the week. :) So this time we're going to put our phone number and the church address, so hopefully it will turn into some new investigators!

We figured we had to adapt our typical finding techniques to more of a "city" method, and so far, it seems to be working. When in Rome, right?

Any ways, like I said, last week was great. We added a new baptismal date, so if you can include Juan Cortez to the list of names you are thinking about. That'd be good. He needs some help quitting drugs, but we made a nice little plan with him. I'll keep you posted.

This email gave you like... no real updates. haha I just realized that. That's why I threw in the thing about Juan. Woops

Just know that I'm doing great and that my feet are kinda tired. But that's normal now... :) Love you all!