We met with a part member family. Our bishop went in full force and invited the Dad to be baptized. It was good though because the Dad just needs to make the jump. It was crazy though because literally the wife and kids were begging and pleading with him to say yes. His daughters were saying Dad you need to get baptized so that you can come into the temple when we get married. It was intense, not the usual approach I would take on part member families, but it was needed. We committed them to pray as a family about when he should get baptized. We will be following up with them next week and we hope all goes well!
Something that is exciting is we have started to master Facebook proselytizing, sort of. We are at least starting to figure out how to do it somewhat effectively! What we have started doing is we find prayer groups and we join them. We then message people hi and if they respond we say 'do you want' to talk about prayer. We have actually gotten some pretty good results from it! The next challenge is finding other groups that aren't religious and finding ways to make a normal and natural conversation.
Church was crazy. We texted our bishop and asked if there was room for us and he said there might be. We ended up waiting outside of the building and one minute before he sent us a text and said come on in! It was a throwback to West Branch; there were only about 17 people there. After serving in larger and larger wards my entire mission it felt pretty scarce.
-Elder Compton
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