Well
these past few weeks have just been pure madness! We've been working our
tails off and been so crazy busy that the time is just flying by!
On
Tuesday we had district meeting and a bunch of regular appointments, nothing
too crazy. We did get to see Marjore, Anisa and Jasie-Ann and they are doing so
great! They are on track to get baptized on the 5th of September! But we did
try and pass by a less active member in the night time to find him not home. His dad invited us into his huge house and showed us his 72 inch flat screen TV and his Mazda Rx-7, this car is sweet! It's all original and he keeps it
nice... That was probably the highlight for the day! haha
On
Wednesday we went out to a place called Princes town which is pretty far out
for us so we only go out there once a week, but it's always an adventure! We
got to see this member who literally for over an hour tried to convince us that
we need to join her company called Amway. Still not too sure what they do but
it is definitely not for me. Especially because she got so vexed that we were
like 8 minutes late, she was talking about how she has to move her meetings
around whenever she is even a minute behind schedule. It was getting on my
nerves. But we got to go see a super funny family that night who kind of
complained the whole time about their extended family but it was super funny
because it was just some silly argument and they ended up just laughing at the
whole thing. They were in tears laughing at themselves with Elder
Little and I just watching them...
On
Thursday we had a sweet experience with taking Bishop Moore to see Marjorie and her
family! He really enjoyed our lesson and is giving his approval for
their baptism this weekend! He's super excited! And that night we had a super
funny coordination meeting with our ward mission leader, he was basically
telling all of us about how he's going to school to be able to counsel people
and if he wanted to he could make one phone call and put us all in a mental
institution... he's crazy, but is the hardest working member I've ever met on
my mission. He's a great guy!
On
Friday morning we went and picked up some pants that I had gotten tailored and
this really nice Muslim guy who owns the tailor shop told me that he did it as
service and i didn't need to pay him for it. All he asked was that we keep him
in our prayers. It was a huge testimony builder to me to remember that there are
good people everywhere. Even though we experienced a ton of rejection this past
week there are good people everywhere who just want to serve others out of the
kindness of their hearts. The rest of the day was pretty alright, we had some
good lessons with Marjorie and her family as well with the Basdeo family who is
this super sweet member family who is just so ready to learn and loves
the missionaries!
On
Saturday morning because of the limit on Kilometers on our car we weren't going
to be able to go to a baptism in Point Fortin but we were able to catch a ride
down with a member. It was a sweet baptism for the sister missionaries of this guy named
Renny! He's a super cool guy and it was an awesome beach baptism! It was overcast and right when the baptism ended it started dumping rain! I hadn't
seen so much rain in a long time and so there was like 8 of us packed
underneath this tarp on the beach just trying not to get too wet! It was
insane!
On
Sunday we had a super sweet Fast and Testimony meeting a week early because
Stake Conference is next week! There was a ton of Spanish people there, one of the other elders in the ward is from the Dominican Republic and they are
teaching a lady from the DR who only speaks Spanish so it is super cool to see
her desire to get up to bear her testimony and have the elder translate for her in Sacrament meeting
even though she is just an investigator, she is super solid! There was also a
family visiting from Venezuela who only spoke Spanish and a member bore his
testimony in Spanish that he had learned on his mission! It was a super powerful
Testimony meeting, mostly because I didn't understand half of the
testimonies... haha
On
Monday it was Independence day so we couldn't have our P-day and everything was
crazy so we had some service in the morning where we got to go paint a deck and
then a day full of appointments falling through. But the coolest part of the
day was that night we were driving home and all of these fireworks started
going off for like a half hour! It really reminded me of home and all of the
great times that I've had with my family at firework shows! It was super
sweet!
On
Tuesday we had our district meeting which was good as always and had a pretty
average day but that night we went to visit a referral with our Ward Mission Leader
to see his neighbors who are super old and the lady had just attempted to
commit suicide. It was super sad to see both of them in that state. They are
both very sick and both a little bit not there mentally, but Brother Simmons
just loves these two to death and it was, I think, exactly how the savior would
have treated these two if he would have been there. It was amazing.
This
was a crazy week and long time from P-day to P-day, but Thanks so much for all
the love!
Blessings,
Elder
Dorrance
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