Amia's Baptism!

Good Morning everyone! The transfer is winding down to a close. We haven't gotten transfer calls yet, but I don't think I will be staying in Arima this coming transfer. However, things are really starting to pick up in this area. Since the baptisms, we kind of found ourselves with nobody to teach, but this week we found a bunch of truth-seeking individuals who are willing to listen to us.

We have been contacting this new area called Greenville, which is producing a lot of cool people. This area pretty much got destroyed in the flood, and just recently, almost everybody has finished re-building their houses. Although it is a little bit far away, we have been spending more time there recently. We started teaching this lady yesterday who told us the exact same thing another person said last week "I am searching for the true church" She hasn't really been satisfied with her husbands' church that she's been attending for a long time now and is trying to find her way.

A cool experience we had this week was with Laurels' boyfriend Kalvin. Just the lesson before we were talking about missionary work, and she had told us that she was pretty sure he didn't want to talk with us, but we challenged her to invite him to do so. Miraculously, we came back this week to teach her and he was there. We had to really change the lesson plan, and we ended up introducing the Book of Mormon to him, talking about the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and eternal families and marriage. We testified to them how much it means to have an eternal family and the joy it brings, Everyone was feeling the Spirit. Like a wise man once said: "The Spirit was so thick you could have cut it with a butter knife." He had been doing "research" on the internet and things like that, but he seemed to be satisfied so far. We di I am so thankful to have the Family a Proclamation to the World. Because he was trying to learn as much about what we believe as possible, we went over a bit of it and committed him to read it. I can't think of anything better to teach someone the most basic and precious things we believe than the Proclamation (Other than maybe the Articles of Faith, I guess). We are going by again tonight hoping that he will be there so we can share all of the Restoration with him.

Sister Gordon, one of the members has a 9-year-old daughter we have been teaching for a while now, her name is Amia. She didn't get baptized when she turned 8 because her mom wanted us to teach her the lessons. But she was baptized this Saturday with another child of record. It was a great service. I'll send some pictures.

Have a great week!
Elder Porritt

Amia's Baptism