Hello everyone! Well
this coming transfer I will be staying in Curacao to finish training Elder
Bigelow, and I am really excited to do so. This has been a really fun transfer,
and a really fast one too. Not a whole lot is even changing in our whole zone.
We will be getting one new Spanish elder, and a couple new Spanish Sisters, and
very few of the areas are being changed. I am excited to be here in this area
for another transfer, and am hoping that we will have much success these next 6
weeks.
We had some really
cool experiences this week. We
had two really great lessons with our new investigator named Magnolia, During
the week we taught her about the Restoration through the prophet Joseph Smith.
After reciting the first vision to her we asked her "What do you learn
about God and Jesus Christ from this experience?" She responded "He
wants us to be baptized and be born again." It wasn't quite the answer we
were expecting, but it was an AWESOME answer. During these first couple of
weeks, she has just shown a really great understanding of the importance of the
Restoration, and pretty much every answer she gives to our questions is an
inspired answer haha. I just feel like all the events in her life have been a
preparation for this time that we are teaching her about the Gospel, and I know
that what she said was given to her by the Spirit, and we definitely felt
the Spirit. We are excited for what God has in store for her in the future. We
are going to invite her to be baptized this week, hopefully at the end of
October.
We have this old
lady named Theodora that we have been teaching for a long time. She has been
having eye issues and has been waiting to have an eye surgery for like 4 months
now, and finally about two weeks ago she got the surgery, and will be able to
finally start reading in the next couple of days. We have pretty much taught
her all the lessons, and have just been reading a little bit from the Book of
Mormon every time we go over there, since she isn't able to read it herself. We
had invited her to pray earlier this week about being baptized, which she
really wants to follow Jesus Christ, but she wanted to know for sure if this
was the right church that she needs to be baptized into. She prayed and felt
peace, tranquility, and just really happy while she prayed. At first she didn't
really understand what that meant, but we talked about the Spirit and how it
communicates with us, and she understood that that was an answer straight from
God. We put her on date to be baptized on the 6th of October. Matthew 7:7: Ask,
and ye shall receive, seek, and ye shall find, knock, and it shall be opened
unto you. I know that if we want to know something, we just need to ask God,
who will give to us freely, and if we have faith we WILL receive.
I hope you all have
a great week! Keep working hard!
Elder Porritt
Another Beautiful Sunset
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