Letter Home - Week 31

This week was crazy busy with MLC and Zone Conference. We only taught like six or seven lessons this week when we usually have around 15. It was a great week though. It was full of learning and good times. I enjoyed it. No senior couple yet. They come this week on Thursday. This is the last week of the transfer so we find out at the end of this week where we go. Kevin we are working towards his date of March 5th but he will be pushed back a little bit because we need to teach the rest of the lessons to him and he needs to gain a testimony.

Monday: We went in the morning to go get a haircut by Elder Ropati (one of the Samoan Elders) before the activity. We then went to play some football and basketball at one of their playing fields. I think because of my shoes or something I kept slipping and falling while playing football. It made it difficult. We taught a guy named Josh about praying about the Book of Mormon. We also had a lesson with Kevin. He was struggling with prayer but after helping him understand more about it, why it is important, and inviting him to pray to receive an answer and then following up with him he has began praying to receive a confirmation from the spirit.

 

Tuesday: Today we had to run around in the morning to print off and get everyone in the zone conference talks to study from for zone conference before leaving to Barbados in addition to a lot of other errands. So we weren't able to see anybody before we left for MLC. We got in to Barbados and were picked up by the AP's(Elder Pape and Elder Stewart-Johnson). They are awesome missionaries! It was still early so we went on splits with Elder Odhiambo and Elder Kuru. I haven't seen Elder Odhiambo for four months. It was great to see him. We grabbed some KFC for dinner and then went back to their apartment to wait to be picked back up by the AP's to take us to the hotel. They had a lot of missionaries to transport and they came in at different times so they were running all over the place. 

 

Wednesday: We had some breakfast at the Mission Home provided by the Herrinton's. After we had MLC. Elder Martinez of the Seventy was present at the mtg. with his wife. They are really cool people. The mtg. was great. We were asked to study a talk by Elder Bednar about the enabling power of the Atonement. It was something I had never really understood before. It talked about instead of asking for our trials to be removed to pray for the strength to face our trials. It was really good. We lunch during the mtg. and then came back to the mtg. We were at the mission home for the whole day. After the mtg. there were interviews going on and so there was a lot of waiting around talking with the other leaders in the mission. It was fun. Elder Kuru and I watched some Mormon messages while waiting. We had dinner and the a little devotional by Elder and Sister Martinez. It was such a spiritually uplifting day. Went back to the hotel.

 

Thursday: We flew back in the morning but our flight was delayed for several hours. We got some breakfast and hung out until the time to leave. We got back late. We had a branch council mtg and then I had a baptismal interview to perform for Christina's daughter Sancha. It was a great experience for me.

 

Friday: We were supposed to have zone conference at 11:30 but because the Herrington's flight got cancelled we didn't have it until 4:30. We had lunch and went proselyting for a couple hours. We taught Kevin about his pathway to baptism. (The things he needs to do before he gets baptized to prepare himself) We then went back to have the mtg. It was good. It's always great to hear from President and Sister Herrington. They are such a delight and teach me so much each time I hear them. Elder Moli and I taught a section in the mtg. about the importance of making the baptismal pathways for our investigators. It's something new that has been brought up in the mission. I like it. I believe it really helps our investigators understand not only the end goal but the path to get their. We then had our interviews by President and took everyone home. We didn't get home until way late. We got home around 1:30am.

 

Saturday: We then had to take President and his wife to the airport at by 6:00 and wake up at 5:30. We then got to pick up my luggage that was lost for a time at the airport but I got it back. President said we could go back and sleep for a couple hours to make up for lost time. That was nice. We cleaned the church after. We then went back to our apartment and got ready and studied. We had Sancha's baptism today that went really well. She was really happy. We taught this new investigator named Kerry John at the end of the night with Kevin. We contacted her and gave her a book of Mormon and invited her to read. We went back for the first time today and she read the introduction and up to the middle of chapter 3. We had a good first lesson with her. I'm excited to continue to teach her. We were led to her by the Lord. I'll tell you more next time on how we met her.

Sunday: Kevin came to church but no one else. We are trying to get the others to come. We just keep doing what we can. We gave the sacrament to an older lady named Sister Alene. We also had a lesson with a recent convert named Odellia who is 20 or 21. She is the only member in her family. It was a really cool lesson as we were able to give her hope and help her with a challenge of depression that she has been facing for a couple years. She is a really great person and has a strong testimony. We also had a lesson with Shana and Stephanie and a few of their friends and family. We talked about the book of Mormon and helped them to understand what it is and where it came from.

I had fun this week :) Lots of good times! I love you guys! Hope you have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King