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| Beautiful Trinidad Sunset |
Well
this week was pretty ridiculous for sure!
On
Tuesday we had district meeting in the morning with the Assistants and the
Sando Missionaries and then we were able to have Elder
Nebeker come out with us all day! And because the other A.P. can't drive the
transfer van which is a manual, they took our car and we rode in the van all
day! It was pretty fly! But it was cool because we had a couple of appointments
fall through but we were able to meet some forreal awesome people! Like we were
just walking and walked right into this birthday party where they invited us in
and gave us food and drink and were pretty cool. A couple of the younger people
were even pretty interested in meeting with us, so that was pretty sweet!
On
Wednesday I headed out to an area called Princes town for the first time where
there used to be a church branch but now there is just a bunch of inactive
members that we need to go and check up on. When we got there it turned
out that the member who shows us around couldn't make it so we kind of had to stumble
around up there on Elder Little's memory which turned out to work pretty well
for us! But we met with the Ramnarine family who are so poor it hurts me. It
really took me back to the days in Guyana where a ton of people just really
have nothing. There are like 7 people in this little one room house and
everyone shares a bed. The dad is a cocaine addict and the family is just so
sweet and puts up with his crap. They are super sweet and love the gospel
and would come to church in a heartbeat if they could afford to come out. It
was really a pretty humbling experience. It was also pretty crazy today because
of how much it rained, it seriously rained for like 3 hours straight! It was
ridiculous.
On
Thursday we had a cruddy day... We have really been trying to rebuild
our teaching pool and we are just getting rejection after rejection. Nobody
will talk to us... Thursday was a day jam-packed full of rejection... But
we had a super effective coordination meeting and an interesting lesson with the
Dennis family that night. They are less-active and I'm not sure why, but
they just are. They love the gospel and have testimonies, just don't come...
super weird!
On
Friday we had a ton of people that we taught and had a pretty alright day! We
had a sweet lesson with Marjorie and her Grand-daughter Jasie-Ann who should be
getting baptized on the 5th of September! Super exciting!
On
Saturday we had an actually great time finding! Saturday was the only day of
the week that we actually found anyone cool that we were able to contact into!
Like this one lady we called into her house and her son came out and didn't
look too interested so we started walking away and he yelled back after us that
his mom is coming. So she invited us to sit down and got us some water and then
she started talking to us about her beliefs as a Muslim which was cool and she
even gave us a Quran. It was super nice of her to let us share a little bit
about what we believe and then she was able to share with us!
On
Sunday Anisa, Marjorie, and Jasie-Ann all came out to church which was pretty
awesome! All 3 of them should be getting baptized in September and they all
really loved chruch! San Fernando ward is probably the best ward or branch I've
ever seen on my mission that fellowships with investigators so amazingly! They
immediately just took Jasie-Ann and Anisa into young womens that was super
cool. And we even got a text later that evening from the young womens asking
for their numbers to invite them to a young women activity this week! That has
never happened on my mission before and it was just a real testimony builder
for me of the power of member work and fellowship!
This
morning though we got to head up to Curepe to have th All Trinidad Sports day
which is always fun! All the zones get together and hangout and play sports!
It's super fun to get to see everyone!
It was
a fast week and I hope everyone else had a good one!
Much
Love,
Blessings,
Elder
Dorrance
Grateful to Elder Little for the pictures since my camera broke...
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| Trinidad Sports Day |
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| Holding hands with Elder Little because we LOVE eachother |
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| Elder Dorrance, Elder Ahanonu, and Elder Sheen at Sports Day |
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| Elders Bingham, Clark, Dorrance, Perez-Uri |
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| Elder and Sister Francom |
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| 2014 Corolla - What I get to drive everyday |
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| Mission transfer van |
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| Elders Little, Nebeker, Dorrance |
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