Letter and Pictures - Week 27

It's great to hear about all the good things that are happening! Trek sounds fun for Kaylee. It's good to hear that school and work is going well. I love hearing about Jay and the missionaries. I'll be joining in on the special family fast. I wish I could've gone to the temple with you guys. We had transfer calls last week on Saturday and then this past week on Wednesday is when all the changing around took place. Elder Moli and I took those that were leaving to the airport and then later picked up those coming in. They were 5 coming and 5 going and at several different times. It was fun. Then on Thursday morning we did all the paperwork for each of the new missionaries so they can be legal here in St. Lucia. Everything worked out well for the most part. Elder Nixon coming in from St. Maartin got stuck in Barbados for the night. He was taken care of though. We picked him up in the morning. We also had the baptism of Christina who I interviewed. She was first taught by Elder Moli and Elder Clement and then Elder Hardy and Elder Platt finished the teaching. She is a wonderful lady and loves to feed us missionaries. We've had several times of going over to her humble home and her providing for us. There home is like the ones you've heard about where it's very small and the showers are outside. She doesn't have much in the eyes of the world but she has a wonderful family and friends who love her. She was so happy when she went through on her righteous decision to follow Christ and be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. She had the biggest smile on her face and felt good about what she did. Despite the time taken away we still had some good lessons this week. We extended a few baptismal invitations and set some dates. Alma accepted a date and Villia as well for March 12. Villia and Alma are sisters who live close to each other. We teach them separately. We teach Villia and a lady named Shenellle together. Both of them came to church this week and they loved it. We will set a date with Shenelle just now. They've started their reading in the book of Mormon. We hope to see them continue to progress. Kevin has been doing everything we ask him to do and he is feeling the joy of doing so. He comes out with us to our teaching appointments and comes to church and also to baptisms. He reads and prays. His prayers are getting better each time we visit. He is a bit slower in his understanding so we are going through the lessons slowly but he is diligent and tries his best. I've been studying a lot about the plan of salvation lately and I read a talk by Elder Hales on it that I really liked. In the talk he said that as we seek to understand more about God's plan of happiness for us, His children, and couple that effort with prayer that it will change the way we see life. There is another quote from somewhere else that I liked that said that life makes more sense from the creator's perspective. I know that God's plan is perfect because of Christ and his atoning sacrifice and that this is the way to true lasting happiness. I love you all!

 

Love,

Elder King 

Christina Didier's baptism. This is her family. Elder Hardy on the left and Elder Platt on the right.