Well eventually we were able to teach one of their investigators who was new to England and spoke very little of our language, despite these challenges her enthusiasm stuck and the persistency of the Elders got us through the lesson. This also involved my boyfriend and I frantically typing sentences into Google translate to try and translate words such as Sin and prophet and invitations such as will you read the Book of Mormon? so that she could understand in her own language.
As apart of my calling as a missionary I was very involved with using the media as a source of finding and teaching using Mormom.org, Facebook, Skype and email we were able to communicate with people ready to hear the gospel all over the world. Now being home it got me thinking about how as a member I could cultivate these skills I have learned as a missionary and use them in my personal missionary work as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ. This is partly why I decided to create this blog and a Facebook group namely 'every member an online missionary' to help members to be more aware of the variety of ways available to share the gospel.
When I got home from an eventful evening with the Elders I added their investigator on Facebook and got to work translating a conclusion of what was taught using Google translate and sent it to her in a Facebook message I also linked her to a Mormon Message that talked more about the Book of Mormon and could be set to captions in Polish for her to understand. She was grateful for this and told me she understood what it meant and was excited to watch the video.
This took what a whole 5-10 minutes of my time yet the possible impact it might have on her being able to accept the gospel surely is worth the time and more. Missionary work really does not need to be hard and it can be creative also! this is just one little idea that can help the missionary work to go forward.
Sarah :)
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