May 28

Hey momma!

  

How are things going back home?

 

Wanna hear about my week? Of course you do. ; ) So! Monday was Victoria day where all of the commonwealth celebrates Queen Victoria because she was on the throne longer than anyone else. So everything was shut down. We went to a carnival instead and I bought some cotton candy. Obvi. The MAJOR highlights from this week are as follows:

 

Remember the two people that just randomly came up to us and/or called us and asked to meet with us? They're both inactive members of the church that have just moved into our area. Cool huh? During this week we knocked into a haitian family that had never heard of the Book of Mormon before, and they happily told us to come back to teach them about it next week. The cool part of that story is the little girl named Selena. Selena is friends with our new Haitian families children, and she stopped us while we were knocking to ask if we were going to knock on her door. She said she loves church, but her mom won't go, and she really wanted us to go knock on her door and talk to her mom about it. So we did. Her mom didn't talk to us for six seconds before she closed the door. Yikes. We went to report back to our little Boss, who sadly asked "well... do you teach kids?" uh...... I guess? we told her that if she was over eight, and if she could get her mom's permission, she could come sit in on the lessons we're going to have with the Haitian family. Instantly a smile jumped onto her face and she yelled "I'm eleven!" as she started running to her house to get her mom's permission. Her mom turned out to be pretty cool, she had just thought we were Jehovah's witnesses. :P She said her daughter can learn about whatever she wants to, except the TJ's (French, les Temoins de Jehovah). So we grabbed her a book of Mormon, and a kids copy, and we left her happily flipping through her new books. :)

 

On sunday we went to a pentecostal church with a ward member and her friend, which was pretty interesting. Lots of Christian rock and loud prayers and stuff. It was cool. They had ten people up on stage with shirts saying "I took the plunge" that were being baptized that day. I decided we should definitely make "I took the plunge" T-shirts for our converts. ; ) They zoomed in on them while they were actually being baptized (In a font that looks a lot like ours, oddly enough!), and lo and behold, the youngest daughter of our new Haitian family was happily baptized into the Lifecentre pentecostal church yesterday. Does that count as a baptism in our area? ; )

 

So! This week was pretty cool. We saw miracles left and right, and it FLEW right on past us. The best part? Are you ready? Patricia agreed to be baptized. :D :D She set a date for the 5th of June so that her dad can come down and perform the baptism, and we're SUPER stoked for her. :) Her husband is way supportive too, we're expecting him to follow suite in a month or so. They're both doing wonderful, reading their scriptures, praying as a family, becoming friends with the ward, and we can practically WATCH their lives change. It's incredible. I'm so lucky to be out here, and I'm so happy I was put here as my first area so I could meet all of these wonderful people and be a part of the most important step in their lives thus far. The church is True. Thank you all for all of the love, prayers, and support. I feel it everyday.