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| Merry Christmas! |
This
week was a lot of the same old same old... We are really trying to get a lot of
contacting in but we can't seem to be in the place where
people are home or interested... haha so lately it's been a lot of yelling at
houses that aren't home or aren't too interested. (Instead of knocking, people in the Caribbean just yell into the house for people to come out)
But on
Tuesday we headed down to Point Fortin in the morning for district meeting and
then I was able to go on a tradeoff with Elder Hendricks from Point Fortin and
it was really good! We were able to visit with an older member who is kind of
sick in her legs and so she can't come to church but we had a sweet lesson with
her about the restoration and invited her to share it with her friends. She said she would try and talk to her friend who owns a shop
down the street! I've really seen that it's the doctrines of this church that
change people, it's not the missionaries or the church, but it's what it
teaches and what it really stands for that help people to want to change.
On
Wednesday we dropped Elder Hendricks back down in Point Fortin. It is like
an hour and half drive so that was pretty fun, but a long time in the car for
two days. We spent the rest of the day in Princes Town with Brother
Williams visiting members there who are all so close to coming back to church.
On
Thursday I was able to go and get my stitches out of my toe which was nice. It
definitely made the pain chill out a bit but that took a while and so after
that we had a coordination meeting and had an awesome lesson with a part member
family who the dad is a Presbyterian and who knows everything we teach to be
true, but can't bring himself to leave his church which is pretty sad, but he's
a great guy and loves his wife! He would be an awesome member of the
church!
On Friday
I was able to head up to MLC (Mission Leadership Conference) in Valsayn at the mission home with the other Zone
Leaders and Sister Training Leaders to talk about the mission and what
President Egbert wants us to do to help it to grow. It was really good. We
focused on the Book of Mormon and how it is so powerful in conversion. We had
an awesome lesson with a woman that night as well with her 3 children about the
Book of Mormon and it went super well with them also!
On
Saturday we started our fast and went to pop in on a less active woman and her
friend was there! So we taught them both about the book of Mormon as well and
had an awesome lesson with them and they both said that they'd come to the
Christmas dinner later this month at the ward! Another thing that we talked
about in the last Zone Conference was about teaching the members about the
doctrines of the lessons and so we were able to go and teach an active family
about the gospel that night and it was cool to show them the evidence of what
they already knew in the scriptures and helped them to understand it more and
more!
On
Sunday we had really good church and we actually had a really awesome group
meeting in Siparia with a sister who invited a couple of her friends over for a
lesson and it went super well. But Siparia is super far away so we visited them
as well as another member family there in Siparia and made the long drive home!
It was another long day of driving, we had a couple of them this last
week!
Hope
you all have a great week!
With
Love,
Elder
Dorrance
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| Map of all the places we drove this week. Our area is huge! |
