Gordon's Missionary Blog: Letter and Pictures

It's been a happy week. One of the great successes this week came from an older couple named Thelma and Fred. We recently started teaching them and we taught them a few times this week. They are so great. We invited Thelma one lesson to invite Fred to join in the lesson. She said that he isn't really a church person but she did anyway. He decided he would come down to join. That lesson not only was Thelma interested but Fred as the lesson progressed was too and even more so. When we invited them to come to church. Thelma was indecisive and looked to Fred for an answer and he quickly said yes. They both came to the district conference this week and they loved it. They are both doing really well. It made me so happy when they came. I had a lot of joy in my heart. The conference was really something special. The talks were inspiring.

We have several good investigators that have potential and we have contacted into several that I'm excited to begin teaching. One that we contacted was a young family. They were married and had two young boys. They were very happy when we met them and were very excited to have us come back. Their names are Shani and Cory. We also began teaching a mother and her 23 year old son. Their names are Joy and Akiel. Akiel read everything we gave him and wrote question down that he had. Joy wan't able to read but in our first discussion we found that she has really been exercising her faith lately unto repentance. The Lord has been working with them to prepare them. She gave up drinking, bad music, swearing, and even forgave a few that she felt she needed to forgive. It was wonderful to meet with them. There is a recent convert that we are teaching named Keemar and he is a look a like to Will Smith. His facial expressions reminds me so much of him. It's kinda cool. There was another lady named Joy who has a 6 month old daughter and we just had our first lesson with her. She is great and wants to be with her family forever. She accepted baptism. We contacted into a young pastor of another faith and had a restoration lesson with him and gave him a copy of the book of mormon. We followed up with him to see if he read and he said that he read the introduction, the testimonies and the first four chapters and that he hasn't found anything to be wrong with it. That was cool to hear.

Elder Tye and I are doing great together. It's been fun. I'm learning how to be even more obedient and we are always working on things that we can improve on. It brings an increase of the spirit and it makes life good no matter what happens. Elder Tye has two siblings. One older and one younger brother. He is a smart guy. He liked to build rockets back home. His mother is from Jamaica. He came out with Elder Whipple in Sept. but he went home for 3 months because of medical leave. He was biking and broke his collar bone. He hit his front brakes really hard going fast and flipped over them and broke it. He is fine now. He will hit his one year of serving shortly. He served in St. Lucia around me when I was with Elder Whipple. He is great.

Barbados is great. It isn't like any of the other islands. It is way more developed and a lot like America. It isn't as poor here but you still find poverty all around. It is really flat so that makes it really nice for biking. Otherwise it would be killer. The city is Christ Church. There are three branches here and this past Sunday we had a District Conference with all three branches.

Elder Dixon still hasn't emailing me about the baptisms nor photos but I heard Kelly-Ann was baptized the two Saturdays ago and the other two were baptized this past Saturday. I emailed him to send me some photos but he hasn't yet.

I believe I forwarded the mailing addresses for all of the islands a while ago but the Barbados mailing address is Trident Financial Center, Hwy7, Hastings, Christ Church, Barbados, BB15156.

I love you all!
Love,
Elder King

This is our apartment. It is nice. I like it.