(Response to Dad's e-mail, in which he shared his excitement for the stake meeting its baptism goal, cards sent, Christian training and District Leader, and Mom mentioning the FIRM Foundation Expo including the Book of Mormon Evidence Conference).
Amen and Amen dad. Haha The ward package? from like 6 months ago???? Aside from Christmas I've only gotten cards. Are you guys sending them to the Miami address? Yeah, President Corbitt had a meeting with all the new training leaders where he expressed his love and confidence in us. It was very uplifting. Its also a blast. My sons Spanish is amazing (for a noob), because he studied for 3 years in high school. Yeah, MOm told me about the conference. THats really cool. I do have one doubt/question though, but Im gonna ask Dave and then maybe you guys can consult together or maybe the answer is just really simple. ANyway, Thanks Dad! Love you!!
(Response to the Easter picture)
Oh my gosh, Carson! He's so big! And adorable!
(General e-mail)
Alright. So. My son is a beast. He's teachin, he's tractin, he's puttin baptismal dates. He's just a beast. Love that kid. So we had an interesting week! We found a grand total of 18 new peeps to teach! And we didn't even contact that much! haha It was amazing! And alot of them already want to be baptized! We now have 14 baptismal dates, ranging from here to June, but more about that later. So I would like to share a few specific experiences from this week. First: I have been studying the Isaiah Chapters of the BoM and find it rather fascinating and much easier to understand. Well the other day, I finally got to the part where it mentions the coming forth of the Book of Mormon and talks about taking the sealed book to the different persons. The learned man rejects it because he seeks the glory of the world and thus believes that he knows all. The Unlearned man wont read it, simply because he can't read. The next part is the most interesting. That the Lord (almost wrote Senor), then qualifies the unlearned man, and gives him the needed knowledge to read the book. So now, the application. You might remember Daphni, the Haitian lady who recieved her answer at the temple. Well the other day we went to visit her and she told us that she had now read about half of the Book of Mormon! Here's the kicker: she can barely read! This was the same day in which I read those versus in Isaiah. So, I shared them with Daphni, and Testified that the Lord had qualified and commanded her to read His word. While we were reading it, she started crying. It was really amazing
Now, a funny experience. So our ward only has one ward missionary, an elderly sister named Mariana. She is awesome and loves to leave with us, but she's a little crazy. We were in a lesson with a few evangelicals and she started trying to convince them that all the Bible happened after the Flood. My companion and I were both trying very hard not to laugh while we corrected her. Then, as I was trying to explain that Peter was called as a prophet, she went off on a long winded scripture rant that ended in saying that all the apostles were prophets. (this was right after we had explained that God only calls one prophet at a time) Oh members... hahah It all turned out ok though.
So my time is gonna run out soon, but lets talk about the baptismal dates. The majority of them come from Miriams family, but there are several news and others who are just now feeling ready. So Miriam and Nicouri are going to be baptized on the 30th, along with a young girl named Ana Erika. Dahpnis date is for the 23, but Im not sure we're going to get her boyfriend situation fixed before that. It would probably be better if she just went back to Haiti and met the missionaries there.
Anyway, with all these people wanting to be baptized, only Ana Erika came to church. Thppppt. So when we went to teach Miriam and her family, I gave a rather heart pricking parable about keeping the Sabbath day holy and church attendence. They all promised to go to church the next week, and we put another baptismal date there. So that was basically the week! For Pday we did a hard core kitchen clean. we cleared out all the old cupboards, finding useful things and lots of garbage. My son almost wet himself when he found some ooooold spider corpses. So, I decided to be a good dad and fish them out for him (He's not a big spider fan. ;)) But yeah! Love you all! Love the work! I know that Christ is my savior and that He guides us in His work. Bye!
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