I've had a couple people ask me what I do here as a missionary, because it's a little bit more unique than other missions. Since we are not allowed to knock on doors here, we find people by talking to them on the street, in the mall, on the bus, and something I call RT contacting. Every neighborhood is organized like a stake. The "stake" is called an RW, and there is a leader over the whole RW. Then, there are "wards" called RT, which each has it's own leader. Since we can't go door-knocking, we go to the RT and ask if there are any people who would be interested in our message. They'll either give us names or tell us it's a Muslim neighborhood and we can't go proselyting there. If we receive names we go visit them and ask if they are interested.
Another thing that's really important in our work is visiting less active/inactive members. About half of the members in Indonesia are Inactive. We come to invite them back to church and share a gospel message with them. It's cool to see someone come back to church all because they felt like someone cared enough about them to invite them to come back! Another thing we do is go to member families. We invite them to do missionary work to and be good examples to their friends, to share their testimonies. They also feel us a lot of food, so no matter what you can't go bad. Most cites missionaries ride bikes and can ride for maybe 3 or 4 hours every day. I've gotten really good at riding a bike! We also have meetings we go to and stuff like that. We do service projects too, but I haven't had many opportunities to do many service projects. The most important thing about missionary work is that we learn to come closer to God ourselves, to learn how to work hard and how not to give up. I've learned so much from my mission and am so glad I still have 10 months to go!
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AuthorHOLLEY STRINGHAM: Salt Lake City, born and raised; returned missionary from the Indonesia Jakarta Mission.; a simple folk aimed on changing the world Archives
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