(Response to Dad's e-mail, in which he discussed teaching Jacob 5 in Gospel Doctrine)
Sweet dad! Im actually just about so start that chapter! I dont have a whole bunch of time and cant access the link, but thanks! Love you!
(General e-mail)
Weekly letter will really be more of a weekly phrase. We just had to many things to do today and got to the internet late. Well this week was very interesting. We met an old investigator named Michael who now has a bap. date for next month. That makes 15. Lots of other cool stuff, we had 5 people in church, got a reference who also wants to be baptized, found another ref. who also wants to be baptized and had a general party with my first born in the wilderness. He´s so cool. He´s basically me, just alot more sheltered and home schooled. :P We also have interviews with President this week, so we´re all pretty pumped for that. I promise, more details next week. Love you all!
Monday, April 18, 2016
Monday, April 11, 2016
11 April 2016 - Boca Chica (Santo Domingo)
(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!
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!
Monday, April 4, 2016
4 April 2016 - Boca Chica (Santo Domingo)
(Response to Dad's e-mail. There was more, but it was of a more personal nature. Also, the Frogley tradition is for the men and boys attending Priesthood Session to go out for Mexican before the session.)
Dad, I have some very bad news.................I did not eat Mexican on saturday. My heart was crushed. BUT We did eat semi authentic Italian pizza today, so that was pretty swell. My son is awesome! More about that in the big letter. Conference was truly inspiring. Wow. What a spirit.
(General e-mail)
Conference!! Man that was great! I didnt want it to end! I laughed, I cried. It moved me Bob. ( If any of you get that quote, Ill be proud of you.) Starting with President Eyerings testimony in the very beginning, the Spirit was just there. I loved the emphasis on families and how much our Heavenly family loves us. Elder Oaks´ talk about the purpose of oppisition was also really great. Elder Holland had me in almost in tears like normal. He is so amazing. I was a little concerned about how little we heard from our Prophet though. He only spoke for very brief intervals, especially in Priesthood session. Still amazing though.
The rest of the week! So tuesday I headed up to the capitol to pick up my son! His name is Elder Call from Spocan (no idea how to spell that) Washington. We are very similar and he too loves to sing! We got back to the house with our Zone Leaders and one of the senior missionary couples to find that....our house got robbed again! That makes 4 times now. The foolish mortal still didnt take anything actually valuable though. He snagged all our speakers and a fair amount of cash, tore through all my suitcases and stole my sandals. He didnttake my camera, the house DVD player, my nice shoes, my watch or any fans. Hurray! So we fixed up the back door, chained up the hole he made in our patio and pray that it doesnt happen again.
The rest of the week was pretty swell though! We had lots of meetings so we didn´t get too many lessons in, but the ones we had were great. We set 8 new baptismal dates too! Speaking of baptismal dates, I have to tell you about the miracles we saw in the last transfer. So the stake set an inspired goal of 90 baptisms for the trimester. At the beginning of last month, we still needed 46. We got 31 in the White Night, but we still needed 15. We were all kind of freaking out in how we were going to prepare 15 people for baptism in like 2 weeks. Well...the weeks past and we invited people with faith and zone put 14 baptismal dates. The day of the baptisms came and in the midst of the sacred ordinances, one of the investigators from one of the other areas recieved her answer. She told the Elders she wanted to be baptized. They rushed off to do the interview, got her changed, and she was the 15th baptism to fulfill our goal of 90. Last transfer we saw so many miracles in preparing for this inspired goal. It was truly spectacular. This taught us all to trust more and more in the Lord, and less in ourselves. When the Lord says we can do something, He means it.
As for our current baptismal dates, we have Miriam who is totally awesome. She lives in Goatierre (the little town in our area. Kind of far away) and is the cousin of the only member that lives out there. She has a huge desire to join the church. She read the restoration pamphlet and practically memorized it before our next visit. We put a date with her and alot of her cousins. We also have Dafni...again. Dafni reeeaaally wants to be baptized, but is still living with her bum of a boyfriend. So we have to get him to shape up and also get the married. We´re going to have a family home evening with them tonight, so we´ll see if we cant get Francisco (the BF) to participate. Well, I love you all! Have a great week!
(Pictures)
Its a boy!!!! By wonderful son was born last tuesday! Does he remind you of anyone??
Conference in English!! Guess what we got! It said proscuitto, but it was really just ham. Close enough!
Dad, I have some very bad news.................I did not eat Mexican on saturday. My heart was crushed. BUT We did eat semi authentic Italian pizza today, so that was pretty swell. My son is awesome! More about that in the big letter. Conference was truly inspiring. Wow. What a spirit.
(General e-mail)
Conference!! Man that was great! I didnt want it to end! I laughed, I cried. It moved me Bob. ( If any of you get that quote, Ill be proud of you.) Starting with President Eyerings testimony in the very beginning, the Spirit was just there. I loved the emphasis on families and how much our Heavenly family loves us. Elder Oaks´ talk about the purpose of oppisition was also really great. Elder Holland had me in almost in tears like normal. He is so amazing. I was a little concerned about how little we heard from our Prophet though. He only spoke for very brief intervals, especially in Priesthood session. Still amazing though.
The rest of the week! So tuesday I headed up to the capitol to pick up my son! His name is Elder Call from Spocan (no idea how to spell that) Washington. We are very similar and he too loves to sing! We got back to the house with our Zone Leaders and one of the senior missionary couples to find that....our house got robbed again! That makes 4 times now. The foolish mortal still didnt take anything actually valuable though. He snagged all our speakers and a fair amount of cash, tore through all my suitcases and stole my sandals. He didnttake my camera, the house DVD player, my nice shoes, my watch or any fans. Hurray! So we fixed up the back door, chained up the hole he made in our patio and pray that it doesnt happen again.
The rest of the week was pretty swell though! We had lots of meetings so we didn´t get too many lessons in, but the ones we had were great. We set 8 new baptismal dates too! Speaking of baptismal dates, I have to tell you about the miracles we saw in the last transfer. So the stake set an inspired goal of 90 baptisms for the trimester. At the beginning of last month, we still needed 46. We got 31 in the White Night, but we still needed 15. We were all kind of freaking out in how we were going to prepare 15 people for baptism in like 2 weeks. Well...the weeks past and we invited people with faith and zone put 14 baptismal dates. The day of the baptisms came and in the midst of the sacred ordinances, one of the investigators from one of the other areas recieved her answer. She told the Elders she wanted to be baptized. They rushed off to do the interview, got her changed, and she was the 15th baptism to fulfill our goal of 90. Last transfer we saw so many miracles in preparing for this inspired goal. It was truly spectacular. This taught us all to trust more and more in the Lord, and less in ourselves. When the Lord says we can do something, He means it.
As for our current baptismal dates, we have Miriam who is totally awesome. She lives in Goatierre (the little town in our area. Kind of far away) and is the cousin of the only member that lives out there. She has a huge desire to join the church. She read the restoration pamphlet and practically memorized it before our next visit. We put a date with her and alot of her cousins. We also have Dafni...again. Dafni reeeaaally wants to be baptized, but is still living with her bum of a boyfriend. So we have to get him to shape up and also get the married. We´re going to have a family home evening with them tonight, so we´ll see if we cant get Francisco (the BF) to participate. Well, I love you all! Have a great week!
(Pictures)
Its a boy!!!! By wonderful son was born last tuesday! Does he remind you of anyone??
Conference in English!! Guess what we got! It said proscuitto, but it was really just ham. Close enough!
Monday, March 28, 2016
28 March 2016 - Boca Chica (Santo Domingo)
(Response to Dad's e-mail, in which Dad described the Easter feast we all enjoyed.)
Ah.....such food. Haha that sounds super amazing. haha Im Jealous. The stake made us dinner today, specialy made by chefs and stuff at it was.....rice....pasta....and meat. It was good though. haha Love you dad!
Ah.....such food. Haha that sounds super amazing. haha Im Jealous. The stake made us dinner today, specialy made by chefs and stuff at it was.....rice....pasta....and meat. It was good though. haha Love you dad!
Oh! and I also tried to take out money from my card aaaaaaand it didnt work. So I dont know whats up with that. It works fine when i just swipe it, but I cant take out cash.
(General e-mail)
Dang it! I have no time! Ill write a nice big letter next week! really fast! Baptism was great! Through miracles we met the stake goal! The house got robbed. Im training here in Boca Chica and im still DL! Love you all! Woo!
Monday, March 21, 2016
21 March 2016 - Boca Chica (Santo Domingo)
(General e-mail; note "se fueron" means "they left", "they went", or "they went away")
Alright! So I cant believe I forgot to tell you all last time, but we got robbed! Not last week, but right before. Like friday night I think....Something like that. They just took my new wallet so se fueron my temple recomend, drivers license and several other personal things. So that kinda stinks, but at least they didnt try to take my bag. The guy was totally stupid too. He had his hand in his pants to make it look like he had a gun and he looked like he was about to pee his pants. I kinda just wanted to pull out some black belt all over his face, but there are rules against that. Anyway...
So this week was...interesting. We kept teachin the folks, found some more folks and did lots of missionary things. haha One point of interest, I have chikonguna! Thats kind of like Dengue less strong. I got a fever and stuff and now there's a giant rash all over my body.
So Saturday, we had a White Night, where lots of people from all over the stake were baptized. That was great and that is where young Yilbert was baptized.
I also want to tell you about one of our lessons with Angela Ramirez. She was an oldish investigator (person that was taught previously by missionaries) and was kind of put on hold because she was so busy. She is still really busy, but I felt that we had to visit her because Elder Johnson told me she had been to church various times, had a testimony of the church and wanted to continue learning. GOLD! Now she has started to read in the BoM and praying alot. She still doesnt want to get baptized though because she has doubts about a few things and wants a surer knowledge of the BoM. Anyway, the last lesson with her was amazing. She also had told us that there was something bad in her life that was keeping her from being baptized. So, we had planned to talk to her about the atonement and the power of prayer. We brought her best friend, who is also a return missionary, and proceeded to teach like one of the best lessons of my mission. Well, the Spirit did anyway. We started off with the story of Enos to explain about prayer, the power of faith and its role in forgivness. Then we moved on to the story of Alma the younger. Afterward, we transitioned to Alma 7 that talks about the importance of baptism and how we shouldnt be afraid to follow God. Then we all bore our testimonies and personal experiences about The Atonement in our lives. The Spirit was so strong. We also answered alot of the questions she had and left her with 2nd Nephi 4 to read. She really wants to be baptized, just doesnt feel ready yet. At the end, I asked her how she feels when we visit her. She said that she always feels at peace and happy, even though she knows we're going to talk about baptism which stresses her out. We testified that all these good feelings that she had were The Spirit, testifying to her. I cant describe all of what happened, nor the feelings that were had, but wow. That was a really great lesson. There is so much power in the Book of Mormon. Well, I do believe thats all. I love you all and I hope you all have a great week!!
Alright! So I cant believe I forgot to tell you all last time, but we got robbed! Not last week, but right before. Like friday night I think....Something like that. They just took my new wallet so se fueron my temple recomend, drivers license and several other personal things. So that kinda stinks, but at least they didnt try to take my bag. The guy was totally stupid too. He had his hand in his pants to make it look like he had a gun and he looked like he was about to pee his pants. I kinda just wanted to pull out some black belt all over his face, but there are rules against that. Anyway...
So this week was...interesting. We kept teachin the folks, found some more folks and did lots of missionary things. haha One point of interest, I have chikonguna! Thats kind of like Dengue less strong. I got a fever and stuff and now there's a giant rash all over my body.
So Saturday, we had a White Night, where lots of people from all over the stake were baptized. That was great and that is where young Yilbert was baptized.
I also want to tell you about one of our lessons with Angela Ramirez. She was an oldish investigator (person that was taught previously by missionaries) and was kind of put on hold because she was so busy. She is still really busy, but I felt that we had to visit her because Elder Johnson told me she had been to church various times, had a testimony of the church and wanted to continue learning. GOLD! Now she has started to read in the BoM and praying alot. She still doesnt want to get baptized though because she has doubts about a few things and wants a surer knowledge of the BoM. Anyway, the last lesson with her was amazing. She also had told us that there was something bad in her life that was keeping her from being baptized. So, we had planned to talk to her about the atonement and the power of prayer. We brought her best friend, who is also a return missionary, and proceeded to teach like one of the best lessons of my mission. Well, the Spirit did anyway. We started off with the story of Enos to explain about prayer, the power of faith and its role in forgivness. Then we moved on to the story of Alma the younger. Afterward, we transitioned to Alma 7 that talks about the importance of baptism and how we shouldnt be afraid to follow God. Then we all bore our testimonies and personal experiences about The Atonement in our lives. The Spirit was so strong. We also answered alot of the questions she had and left her with 2nd Nephi 4 to read. She really wants to be baptized, just doesnt feel ready yet. At the end, I asked her how she feels when we visit her. She said that she always feels at peace and happy, even though she knows we're going to talk about baptism which stresses her out. We testified that all these good feelings that she had were The Spirit, testifying to her. I cant describe all of what happened, nor the feelings that were had, but wow. That was a really great lesson. There is so much power in the Book of Mormon. Well, I do believe thats all. I love you all and I hope you all have a great week!!
We took a temple trip with investigators.
Not sure if I sent any of these before, but Here's the yankee facility. Piece by piece.
Filipe! Our investigator.
Theres also this swell Baseball Museum! We took the assistants and office Elders and they all about hicieron poo poo en sus pantalones [pooped their pants], especially in the facility. They said it was the best Pday of their missions and Im now the favorite of all. :)
Yilbert got baptized!
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
15 March 2016 - Boca Chica (Santo Domingo)
(Response to Dad's e-mail, in which Dad mentioned eating at Sette Bello, Daylight Savings, and reading The Infinite Atonement).
That sounds swell as always. You guys eat at Settebello alot though. 0_- I had no idea that we sinned in the Spirit world. I hadnt ever thought about that. Ha! setting clocks back. That doesnt exist here, thank goodness. I have so many photos I want to send, but these dern computers just wont accept my camera. I think their racist.
Anyway, Love ya Dad!!
(General e-mail)
Hellooooo people who dwell across the sea! So I went to write this yesterday, and just as I started, the power went out! Yay! So we got permission to write today, and we´re at the nice internet place so I can use punctuation and send photos! Double yay! Anyway, I have much to say, so let us begin. So yesterday we went to a baseball museum in our area with the office elders, the assistants, and the Zone leaders from San Pedro. They all LOVE baseball and after we visited the Yankee training center, they said it was the best Pday of their whole missions. We pretty much made their lives. It was really great. And now, the week before. So this last week we went and visited an old investigator named Angela. The missionaries lost contact with her because they didnt know her college schedule and she has alot of class. Luckily for everyone, she has Sundays off. So we went by her house twice this week and had really great lessons. She already has a testimony of the church and everything, but is still working on the Book of Mormon, only because she hasnt read it yet. haha We also tried to put a baptismal date with her, but she doesnt feel ready yet. Shes a little afraid and told us that theres something in her life that she needs to fix first. It has nothing to do with any of the commandments though, so we´re a little nunplussed. (not sure how you spell that anymore) Anyway, we´re continuing to work with her. She´s really awesome though.
Next we have the De Jesus family. They´re the 7 kids that had a baptismal date for this Saturday. Soooo...the came to church on Sunday, but we and the bishopric decided that they weren´t ready and shouldn´t be baptized yet. When we told our ZL he just about died. They will definately be baptized though, we just gotta reactivate their parents first.
Yilbert however is still rarin to be baptized. We will have our last lesson with him today and the interview tomorrow! He is super ready. He reads pretty slow, but has a mountain of desire. We´re also working with his family but theyre a bit more difficult.
Dafni though is amazing. If yalls remember, thats the Haitian mom that we took to the Temple. She really wants to be baptized, but her boyfriend doesnt want anything to do with us, her, or the church. Apparently he´s (ahem) not the nicest person. We´re trying to visit them together with the stake president and the bishopric, but he always leaves or is already gone. What a bum. He doesnt even care for his 4 kids!
On an up note, we had a visit from someone super super awesome. His name is Brother Turley (I think, something like that) and he is in charge of the history of the church...the entire church. He is the guy with the keys to any church history vault, site or room in the entire world. He has authority to investigate whatever he wants that pertains to church history however he wants. Needless to say, that was super dope. He explained alot about the importance of reactivations. He used the example of Oliver Cowdery (If I remember correctly. My notes are in the house) who served a mission to Canada. There he served with vigor, but little success. He was very frustrated until he found and baptized a young man named John Taylor. From that single act, this young missionary brought at least 3 prophets and many apostles into the church, all due to the reactivation of Oliver Cowdery ( I think). He talked about sooo much and I dont have time to write it all, but it was amazing. He also did a Q and A session. We talked about:Poligamy, blacks and the priesthood, D and C 125, rebaptisms, and tons of other stuff. One of the things that stood out to me the most, was when he said that the lost 10 tribes have all been found. He has access to the Patriarchal Blessings of every member in the entire world and, through them, has found members of every single tribe. So thats pretty sick.
Well, I think thats it. If I think of anything else, Ill take a note and tell you guys next week. Love you all and have a great week!
That sounds swell as always. You guys eat at Settebello alot though. 0_- I had no idea that we sinned in the Spirit world. I hadnt ever thought about that. Ha! setting clocks back. That doesnt exist here, thank goodness. I have so many photos I want to send, but these dern computers just wont accept my camera. I think their racist.
Anyway, Love ya Dad!!
(General e-mail)
Hellooooo people who dwell across the sea! So I went to write this yesterday, and just as I started, the power went out! Yay! So we got permission to write today, and we´re at the nice internet place so I can use punctuation and send photos! Double yay! Anyway, I have much to say, so let us begin. So yesterday we went to a baseball museum in our area with the office elders, the assistants, and the Zone leaders from San Pedro. They all LOVE baseball and after we visited the Yankee training center, they said it was the best Pday of their whole missions. We pretty much made their lives. It was really great. And now, the week before. So this last week we went and visited an old investigator named Angela. The missionaries lost contact with her because they didnt know her college schedule and she has alot of class. Luckily for everyone, she has Sundays off. So we went by her house twice this week and had really great lessons. She already has a testimony of the church and everything, but is still working on the Book of Mormon, only because she hasnt read it yet. haha We also tried to put a baptismal date with her, but she doesnt feel ready yet. Shes a little afraid and told us that theres something in her life that she needs to fix first. It has nothing to do with any of the commandments though, so we´re a little nunplussed. (not sure how you spell that anymore) Anyway, we´re continuing to work with her. She´s really awesome though.
Next we have the De Jesus family. They´re the 7 kids that had a baptismal date for this Saturday. Soooo...the came to church on Sunday, but we and the bishopric decided that they weren´t ready and shouldn´t be baptized yet. When we told our ZL he just about died. They will definately be baptized though, we just gotta reactivate their parents first.
Yilbert however is still rarin to be baptized. We will have our last lesson with him today and the interview tomorrow! He is super ready. He reads pretty slow, but has a mountain of desire. We´re also working with his family but theyre a bit more difficult.
Dafni though is amazing. If yalls remember, thats the Haitian mom that we took to the Temple. She really wants to be baptized, but her boyfriend doesnt want anything to do with us, her, or the church. Apparently he´s (ahem) not the nicest person. We´re trying to visit them together with the stake president and the bishopric, but he always leaves or is already gone. What a bum. He doesnt even care for his 4 kids!
On an up note, we had a visit from someone super super awesome. His name is Brother Turley (I think, something like that) and he is in charge of the history of the church...the entire church. He is the guy with the keys to any church history vault, site or room in the entire world. He has authority to investigate whatever he wants that pertains to church history however he wants. Needless to say, that was super dope. He explained alot about the importance of reactivations. He used the example of Oliver Cowdery (If I remember correctly. My notes are in the house) who served a mission to Canada. There he served with vigor, but little success. He was very frustrated until he found and baptized a young man named John Taylor. From that single act, this young missionary brought at least 3 prophets and many apostles into the church, all due to the reactivation of Oliver Cowdery ( I think). He talked about sooo much and I dont have time to write it all, but it was amazing. He also did a Q and A session. We talked about:Poligamy, blacks and the priesthood, D and C 125, rebaptisms, and tons of other stuff. One of the things that stood out to me the most, was when he said that the lost 10 tribes have all been found. He has access to the Patriarchal Blessings of every member in the entire world and, through them, has found members of every single tribe. So thats pretty sick.
Well, I think thats it. If I think of anything else, Ill take a note and tell you guys next week. Love you all and have a great week!
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| Elder Frogley's "Parents" |
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| Poor-Man's Umbrella |
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| Temple Trip |
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| The zone at the temple |
Monday, March 7, 2016
7 March 2016 - Boca Chica (Santo Domingo)
(Response to Dad's e-mail. I have no idea what grandma quote he's talking about...)
Amen y amen!! haha thats so cool Dad! I also really liked that grandma quote. Sounds like Jason is making quite a boom in his work. Fulfilling his destiny as Jason Borne. I am taking my triguard. One dropper every morning and night cus thats what it says on the bottle. How much would four capsules be? four droppers?
Also, no worries, when I get back, I will be happy to help you with anything you need around the yard. :) Love ya daddy!
(General e-mail. FYI, "por fin" means "finally" or "at last", and "semana" means "week".)
Alright! I have much to say this week thanks to several spectacular experiences! First, PERLA GOT BAPTIZED!!!! Por fin! Haha we had the baptism Saturday morning on the beach! Unfortunately... My computer and internet are garbage today so I cant send photos until next week... so thats a bumber. But, saturday afternoon we had a temple trip as a stake and that was amazing. All the recent converts went in to do baptims for the dead and all our investigators went to the near by MTC to listen to President Corbitt. From our Investigators we got Yilbert and Dafni to come. Yilbert wasnt that interested, but Dafnis experience was life changing. She has four kids, one of which is special and cant even talk. She has been feeling very confused about the gospel and all the different churches. Shes been recieving a testimony of the restored gospel bit by bit though as we teach her and read from the Book of Mormon. The temple though was the big factor. President Corbitt had a wonderful discussion with all the investigators about what the temple is and the basics of what happen inside. Dafni was fascinated by the vicarious ordinances, especially the sealing. Afterward, we went for a walk around the temple and listened to the testimonies of the recent converts. During the whole experience, Dafni said that she felt the Spirit so strongly and just felt so loved that she wanted to be baptized! She now has a date for the 26th! Also, the stake started a special fast on saturday to help us meet our monthly goals. The next day, Sunday, we put 8 more baptismal dates with a part member family for the 19th! Also, Dafni came to church for the very first time! It was fast and testimony meeting and she got up and bore her testimony about how she new that this was the true church!!! FASTING WORKS!! BOOM! Wow The Lord is good to us here in Boca Chica.
Also, on a not so spiritual note, one of our Investigators, Felipe, gave us a tour of the local Yankee training facility. He works security there and invited us to his work! It was really cool! Were going next week too with the Zone leaders and the Assistants. This week was just really fantastic! Love you all and hope you have a swell semana!
Amen y amen!! haha thats so cool Dad! I also really liked that grandma quote. Sounds like Jason is making quite a boom in his work. Fulfilling his destiny as Jason Borne. I am taking my triguard. One dropper every morning and night cus thats what it says on the bottle. How much would four capsules be? four droppers?
Also, no worries, when I get back, I will be happy to help you with anything you need around the yard. :) Love ya daddy!
(General e-mail. FYI, "por fin" means "finally" or "at last", and "semana" means "week".)
Alright! I have much to say this week thanks to several spectacular experiences! First, PERLA GOT BAPTIZED!!!! Por fin! Haha we had the baptism Saturday morning on the beach! Unfortunately... My computer and internet are garbage today so I cant send photos until next week... so thats a bumber. But, saturday afternoon we had a temple trip as a stake and that was amazing. All the recent converts went in to do baptims for the dead and all our investigators went to the near by MTC to listen to President Corbitt. From our Investigators we got Yilbert and Dafni to come. Yilbert wasnt that interested, but Dafnis experience was life changing. She has four kids, one of which is special and cant even talk. She has been feeling very confused about the gospel and all the different churches. Shes been recieving a testimony of the restored gospel bit by bit though as we teach her and read from the Book of Mormon. The temple though was the big factor. President Corbitt had a wonderful discussion with all the investigators about what the temple is and the basics of what happen inside. Dafni was fascinated by the vicarious ordinances, especially the sealing. Afterward, we went for a walk around the temple and listened to the testimonies of the recent converts. During the whole experience, Dafni said that she felt the Spirit so strongly and just felt so loved that she wanted to be baptized! She now has a date for the 26th! Also, the stake started a special fast on saturday to help us meet our monthly goals. The next day, Sunday, we put 8 more baptismal dates with a part member family for the 19th! Also, Dafni came to church for the very first time! It was fast and testimony meeting and she got up and bore her testimony about how she new that this was the true church!!! FASTING WORKS!! BOOM! Wow The Lord is good to us here in Boca Chica.
Also, on a not so spiritual note, one of our Investigators, Felipe, gave us a tour of the local Yankee training facility. He works security there and invited us to his work! It was really cool! Were going next week too with the Zone leaders and the Assistants. This week was just really fantastic! Love you all and hope you have a swell semana!
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