Goals

FIND - TEACH - BAPTIZE

The goal of every missionary should be to Find, Teach, and Baptize.  

Statistics compiled by the church show that for every baptism a missionary must teach 3 fourth lessons because 2 people will drop off after the third lesson.  

In order to have 3 fourth lessons,  a missionary must teach 6 third lessons because half of those will drop off.

In order to have 6 third lessons, a missionary must teach 12 second lessons because half of those will drop off.

In order to have 12 second lessons, a missionary must teach 39 first lessons because even more of those will drop off. 

In order to have 39 first lessons, a missionary must have 312 meaningful conversations.

That statistic makes the missionaries swallow hard, but when you break that statistic down into days it becomes easier.  When you take 30 days in a month and divide it into 312 meaningful conversations per month, each missionary only has to have approximately 10 meaningful conversations per day in order to get 1 baptism per month.  

The mission goal for baptisms has been 20 baptisms per month.  In the last three years, that goal has only been reached once when the mission had 23 baptisms in a month.  It was a a real victory.  

This is the time of "The Hastening" and we have more missionaries than ever in the Italy Rome Mission.   Goals are meant to inspire us and lift us to higher plateaus, therefore, the new goal has been raised to 40 baptisms per month.  It's a lofty goal for this mission, but goals are meant to not only be met but also exceeded.  

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(Here's an interesting side note:  The Rome Temple will have two endowment rooms.  Each room will seat 40 people.  The goal of 40 baptisms was set at the last Capi Conference.  Two days later we found out that each endowment room holds 40 people.  Was it a Coincidence or Inspiration?)