Monday, February 6, 2017

Story Time

Hello everyone! This week has been an interesting week. Adjusting to the new "flexible" schedule has been weird, there's a lot that is different about how we do things now. Sometimes it's hard to know what we're supposed to be doing, but we just kinda work and do the best we can.

We haven't been able to find much time to teach the family from last week when everyone is home, because the dad (Patrick) and the only other 18 year old guy (Billy) work and are always in and out. We'll do what we can, but one of the things about this mission that's different than most places is that we don't hang on to people very long. With so many people that live here and the mandate to be teaching the "Lord's elect," when people aren't keeping commitments or appointments keep falling through they just get dropped. Hopefully we won't have to do that with the family, because they seem interested but just aren't making it a big enough priority.

We did find someone that is making it a priority though! Her name is Arjenae (pronounced are-jen-ay). She's a 15 year old African-American girl who's been through a lot in her childhood. like A LOT. Just about everything you can think of has happened to her. She really wants to turn her life around though, and seems to be doing well. She accepted the date to be baptized on the 19th, so hopefully that will happen! We even got a member to bring her to church, even though it was stake conference!

Speaking of stake conference, that was interesting too. We were asked by the stake to translate the saturday adult session into creole, but our mission president was there and since Saturday nights are prime proselyting time, he wanted one companionship to stay and one to go out knocking. So Elder Bissereth and I left while the others stayed. Turns out that no Haitians even showed up, so they were just sitting there getting stared at by President the whole time haha. They booked it as soon as it ended.

The next day during stake conference, we had a member of the seventy come speak to us. During his talk, he had President and Sister Richardson stand up with him and asked all the missionaries to stand up. Then he had us all come to the front and sing Called to Serve for him and for everyone else. That was a pretty cool and unique experience.

One of the last things that happened this week happened last night. The ward was having a "confidential baptism" and asked us to fill the font. Then we ended up staying because the person who was doing the confirmation couldn't come, so they asked one of us to do it. 

A member of the bishopric, Brother Roa, arrives, and so does the member performing the baptism. While we're waiting for the person being baptized to show up, a lady with 3 little kids walks in. Brother Roa has us go talk to her to see what she wanted and to give her a tour or something. Her name is Amy and she has 3 kids, one 10, one 8, and one 5. She asked us "How much longer?". We were confused, and Brother Roa said "Well we have a baptism that you can come in and watch?" and she was just like "Ok great!" So we set up a table and some chairs and chatted with her. We had songs and prayers and she watched the baptism and everything. Then while they were changing clothes Elder Bissereth and I taught about baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and she said "Great, so do you think I could be baptized by the end of the month?" We were just like "uhhhhhh... Yeah!" It was crazy. Turns out she has a Christian background and several Mormon friends, and met with some missionaries 6 years ago! We're going to meet with her again later today to get all the details and figure everything out, there's a pretty good chance she lives in the other Elders' area and she doesn't have a phone yet, so we don't know much yet. Will let you guys know how it all goes.

So that's my week! Hope you enjoyed, leave a like and a comment down below and subscribe to my channel! ;)

Lanmou,

Eldè Stevenson

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