The Dot System

A planning day (morning) is very important. This is where you really fill up your schedule and plan for the upcoming week. I loved these times because we got to see our mostly empty schedule fill up with appointment and meetings and so on. Sometimes we would get really ambitious and it happened on one of these days that we made the decision we wanted to visit every member in the ward but to really focus on the less actives. If we didn’t know who they were, we wanted to.

So there we were trying to figure out the best way to do this when we came up with the best idea ever. We got little colored dots; Red - investigators, yellow – less active members, and green – members We marked that map up good. Each dot had a number associated with it so that when we looked at the map we could go back to the ward list and match the two up. It was a brilliant idea.

How it worked was even better. We would head to an appointment which would fall through – this happened quite a bit. We would then pull out our map and find us. Then we would visit anyone that was in that area. Later on this system greatly helped us as we did out 30 in 30 week and also when we started including the members in more of our lessons.

We would find ourselves in an area and know we had to be there for some reason. We would pull out our map see who was there and do visits. When we visited member we teach a short lesson and then inform them we were going to do contacting in their neighborhood for the next 30 minutes. We would ask them to pray with us and then we would go to work. That night we would contact the member and let them know who we found. We always found someone to teach when we did it this way. Being prepared is important. It’s when we are prepared and ready to go that the Lord can then guide us down the correct paths. The dot system was our way of showing the Lord we were prepared to work.

mit freundlichen Grüßen

Jenessa Jensen