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| Elder Parker |
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| Members fed us lunch in between conference sessions. Sister Roubidoux, Dorrance, and Elder Parker |
Well
it's been another week here in the B-E-A- utiful land of Trinidad down in San
Fernando and quite a bit has happened this week! And if this email is a little
funky it's because I left my planner at a members house on Friday and won't get
it back until Thursday! Sorry!
On
Tuesday we had an awesome district meeting by Elder Naylor about having a positive
attitude on our work and how a positive attitude really blesses us! Then we had
a full afternoon of everything falling through and when we called an
investigator to see if she was home while standing outside her house she told
us that her husband doesn't want us coming over anymore but that we can still
call to check up on her and stuff... so that was a for sure downer. But we had
a great lesson with a recent convert of ours, sister R and her husband who is
high up in the Methodist church here in Trinidad and was asking some great
questions!
On
Wednesday afternoon we headed out to a part of our area called Princes town and
had some cool lessons with the members out there! There used to be a branch out
in Princes town, but because of fighting in the leadership they shut it down,
but there is still great members out there! But that night we were able to have
a great lesson answering some questions of an investigator named Marcus who is
a relative and referral from a member out in Couva! He has a ton of questions
and loves to talk and even asked us if he could be baptized! But right now we
are a little worried that he may be seeking information from not the best
sources... But right now he seems solid and just got married to the woman he's
been living with on Saturday!
On
Thursday we did some more finding after lunch which was normal. But there was a
lady who was really rude to us when we just asked her name and she straight up
told us that she already knows everything about our church. So that made me a little
peeved and I got kind of smart with her which was completely un-Christlike of
me to do and I felt super bad after we walked away... haha but we met this
crazy cool guy named Chris who we talked to outside of his house for about 15
minutes and then he invited us inside to learn more! We testified of the
Restoration and the Book of Mormon which was super powerful and invited him to
read it which he said he would! He is a single guy with two kids and is trying
to know the truth!
Friday
was the so-called "Long Drive" We got up and drove about an hour to
the mission home for Mission Leadership Council with the other leaders in the
mission to go over some policies that President Egbert and the Assistants want
us to review with our Zones to help us be more obedient. We also talked a lot
about what to teach members. One of our Key indicators that has been assigned
to us from President Egbert was AMV's which is Active member visits where we
teach active members and seek referrals from it. But they told us that a great
way to help investigators feel the spirit to share the gospel is found in the
Atonement! So that was way cool! Then we drove the hour back to San Fernando to
meet up with Bishop Moore to drive us out to Rio Claro which is about a 90
minute drive. We had a sweet lesson with them about the Atonement and they fed
us Hot Dogs and Root Beer! Real American Stuff! It was extremely nice of them!
But Rio Claro is right in the middle of San Fernando and Sangre Grande and
Brother Gopaul works in Grande so he got it to them on Sunday. By the time we
got back it was about 7 and we just had everything fall through to do some
night time contacting which was a bummer...
SAturday
conference was exceptional! Shout out to my mom for loving my almost as
unconditionally as Christ does and I loved being reminded of it by Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland. It was amazing to be so spiritually fed both Saturday and
Sunday!
But on
Sunday in between the morning and afternoon sessions we got "Real
Fed" by a member family at a park close to the church which was way cool!
Curried Aloo and Roti! It was sweet! We also set a baptismal date with our
investigator named Stacey which she is stoked about! It was amazing!
But
this week was good! lot's of driving and lots of "Spiritual Food"
BLESS
UP
Elder
Dorrance
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| Sister Roubidoux, Sister Buckhave, and Dorrance |
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