Miracles from working with members

Here's the new blog update:

Elder Christiansen (our district leader, who goes home in ten days) has been focusing a lot on how weekly planning should go, particularly how we can use weekly planning to help align the keys between the missionaries and the members. Yesterday we felt prompted to call our ward mission leader - Brother Johnson - in the afternoon to check in with him about our plans for the day. We did not have any set appointments for Sunday, which is unusual for us. We let him know that we hoped to see Nicki G and Matthew H, as well as Sister Robertson. We asked him if there was anyone else he thought we should see.

Calling him was an act of faith. We were pretty confident in our plans, but we have learned enough about Brother Johnson to know that he wants to feel included. And he should be! He's the ward mission leader! We were not sure if he was going to give us any feedback that would change our course of action, but we wanted to be more like the missionaries in the Preach My Gospel DVDs (who called their ward mission leader every day to report on their work).

Brother Johnson said that he would LOVE to go see Nicki and Matthew with us. We were humbled by his willingness to give up his Sunday afternoon to go teaching with us. We arranged to knock on his door at 4 PM so that he could follow us to Nicki and Matthew's home.

Because of the prompting (from the Holy Ghost) to call Brother Johnson, we were able to:

1.Show Brother Johnson that we cared about him and wanted to involve him.
2. Invite the Spirit into three different homes because of the powerful, real testimony of a non-missionary.
3. Get the mother of one of our investigators to open up to us and share her concerns.
4. Find a new investigator.
5. Invite said new investigator to be baptized in the first lesson.
6. Have a positive, genuine interaction with the non-member husband of one of our returning members.
7. Help Brother Johnson make contact with a man who might hire him to do some remodeling work (which would help the Johnson family financially).
8. Teach two lessons to investigators with an active member present.
9. End the week with 19 lessons taught.

I know that working with ward leaders (instead of above them) is the will of God. I know that I need to do a better job in the future of communicating with and seeking guidance from my local leaders. I know that the principle of repentance allows me to assess my life on a continuing basis and make changes where I need to.