Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Nelson and Edna Tie the Knot


Well, another fantastic week!! We had lots of great things happen and some exciting things going down in Santiago!!! 

Let’s start off with the marriage of Nelson and Edna (the Haitian couple) on Saturday which was incredible!! It went so well! The entire ward was there and we had a great time!!! The ceremony went well, we ate delicious Haitian food and we enjoyed spending time with all the members!! It was a really cool missionary opportunity as well to see their family and family friends show up and to meet the members and to be inside the church. They were dancing and enjoying themselves.. It was really neat to see Edna and Nelson so happy on their special day! It was really special and the ward did an incredible job of putting this on! Highlight of the week!


On Sunday, we had a really good turnout with our investigators and we had quite a few people show up for our class the second hour, including a lady that was a neighbor of another investigator!! She enjoyed the class and even appears to be really receptive.

On Monday, we had a missionary activity with the young men in our ward where they came to lessons and worked with us for a couple hours! it was great to see them working with us and excited to share the gospel! (there were 7 that came!)

Following that, we had a Family Home Evening lesson with a family from our ward that has an investigator living in their house named Sadrack! Elder Moore promised him that if he came to church, he would find work, and sure enough after the second week, he found it! We had a great family home evening and we helped Sadrack accept a baptismal date and he along with the family are excited about that! We had a great lesson on baptism!

It’s been a great week and I wanted to even share some of my personal feelings about having the young men come and visit with me! It was cool to see that even they were looking forward to being missionaries and talked with our investigators about that! Really neat! Made me think back on my aspirations to serve and looking back through my mission experiences thus far, it is so worth it! The reflection and looking back and seeing the good it turns one into by serving others and just trying to help others is a gratifying work. It is worth doing.For anyone deciding or debating on whether or not to go; GO. 


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