Trials and Tribulations?

A picture of our Zone Training

Hello everyone! Not too much exciting happened this week, mostly just a ton of knocking all day long.

So a little update about Amy from last week: Turns out she lived in the other Elders' area :( and has been super hard to get a hold of since she doesn't have a phone, and every time they stop over she doesn't answer. She didn't come to church yesterday either :( , so it's likely that she'll just get lost and fall away. Kinda disappointing, but such is missionary life. 

We had several exchanges this week since Elder Bissereth is the DL [District Leader], and I took over the area for the day while he went to work in the other areas in the district. It was the first time I've been the one to stay, and the most interesting one was when Elder Taylor, a "greenie", was with me. It was the first time that I've been the more experienced missionary! Haha, it was kinda a boring day anyways because we literally had no appointments, so we knocked all day long. It was funny too because we only ran into Spanish speakers, so he did more work than I did haha. He said it was the first time he's had to do a whole door approach in Spanish by himself so hopefully that was good. I want to learn some good Spanish while I'm here too, but I'm gonna focus on Creole first haha.

This week marks 5 MONTHS as a missionary! (This includes the MTC, 3 1/2 in Florida) That's crazy! Almost 1/4th is gone already! The days go slow but the weeks go fast, it's true.

So no one came to sacrament this week (except for Adline and Alicia of course), which is kinda sad, you know? 

The only other thing of interest is that we ran into a bunch of Hebrew-Israelite folks this week, which is annoying. For all those in the mission you know who they are, and for those "watching" at home you have Google. There was one guy in particular that was just hounding us. It's worse when there's a black and a white person in the companionship. He was shouting profanities against us and against God, "breathing out threatenings" as the scriptures would say, (it didn't help that he was obviously high on something) and that was probably the first time I've felt my faith so visibly and physically attacked. We ended up just walking away, "smile and wave" as it were, and letting him yell as we went back to the car. It was a learning experience for both of us I'd say.

SO yeah! That was my week, hope all is going well for all y'all! Keep up the Good Work!

Lanmou,

Eldè Stevenson