Letter and Pictures - Week 66

Dear family,

This week Thelma and Fred came to church again and they did some missionary work! They brought their daughter and granddaughter to church too and they said they would be back. Thelma and Fred said they already consider themselves members. Thelma is having a surgery on her eye this week and then they will be baptized as soon as she recovers. She says she just wants to hurry up and recover so she can be baptized. It will take about 6 weeks for her recovery. We contacted into a young adult named Chris this week and have had several lessons with him. He has a past but sincerely wants to change. He has never been baptized but has a desire to. We invited him and he accepted to work towards it. When we first met him he and his friend wanted us to read something to them from the scriptures so we started reading 3 Nephi 11 about Jesus Christ. Chris said he felt something inside like when his mother used to pray over him but just not as strong and he let us come back the next couple of days in a row to teach him the gospel. It was a cool experience. We taught about faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End and as we read scriptures with him he said baptism really sticks out to him. We left him to read the pamphlet about it and he read more about baptism. He asked a lot of questions about baptism. We also found a family this week and shared the message of the restoration with them. They were very interested and listening intently to what we taught. They said they have been searching to know which religion is right which is awesome. Elder Tye and I taught Damian this week the plan of salvation for the lesson taught to a member. We taught him the plan of salvation. It was cool because he learned something from it and he gave us great feedback on our teaching plus he gave us a referral. One miracle of the week was yesterday. We had 19 lessons for the week so far and we were trying for at least one more to reach our goal of 20 but everything was falling through. It was getting late and we had no one to teach. It was a rough day but then as we were biking down the street Elder Tye stopped at a house of an old investigator that I had never seen and they were home, there was a male present and they let us teach them a lesson and it ended up being a good lesson where the lady was committed to read the book of mormon so we were able to reach our goal of 20 lessons. It's been a blessed week. Not much is happening with our other investigators. It's tough to teach them and they aren't really progressing. Dario is reading the book but not really for the right reasons. He said he received his answer and that it wasn't true. He said he found several faults with it which when we talked with him aren't even faults and cleared them up. We just invited him to sincerely read it with faith and not to read it to disprove it and then to pray to know if it's true again. He also said in that lesson that the bible teaches that the world is flat so that was funny. Elder Tye loves astronomy and he and I got a kick out of that. He is still going to be reading the book. Today we had a Halloween Party since it's Halloween and it's our P-day. We had a costume contest and food and games. It was a good time. It's been a good week. I love you all.

With great love,

Elder King

 

P.S. - We also did a service this week rebuilding a shop of one of our members Sister Edwards. They have monkeys here in barbados. I've seen quite a few. They are just wild monkeys running around. The locals don't like them because they are pests. We started buying fresh cow milk and eggs from a farm next to our apartment. It's good. Yes we are wearing our helmets. You all will have to send pictures of your halloween adventures. It was a lot of cereal but it didn't really make me sick. It wasn't a whole bag but it was a lot. It reminds me of the tongan on the movie the RM. Fun Fact: I've stayed the same weight my whole mission.

 

P.P.S. - I also think I've grown on my mission. I'm super close to being 6 feet.

 

This was today. We had a costume contest. Elder Spencer dressed up as Joseph Smith and the sister around him are the nephites and the lamanites. I dressed up as Harry Potter. Elder Childister and Elder Tulikihakau dressed up as the book of mormon and the bible and they go hand in hand to compliment one another.