Most Members in Trinidad are 1st Generation Members

This was a really good week. We decided this week that we would start going out to Sangre Grande twice a week to see our investigators out there. Pretty much we have to drive out there as early as possible and stay there the entire day so that we don't have to spend so much time traveling. On Thursday we went to see Wendy and her family again. We brought the Bishop and his wife with us. Bishop and Sister Christoffer, from Sangre Grande. They helped us teach them the Restoration, and shared their testimony of the truthfulness of it. Pretty much all the members in Trinidad are 1st generation members of the church; converts. I always love hearing the stories of how they received answers and recognized the truth. This time Ricky and Justin weren't there, but before we started her daughter-in-law Cillia and grandson Ishmael showed up and sat with us for the whole lesson about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. We gave them all copies of the Book of Mormon and invited them to read it and pray about it. This next week Wendy is going to inviter her sister to come join us, so that will be a total of 6 people we have met at that house hold. Wendy accepted to invitation to be baptized, probably either General Conference weekend or the weekend after. We are hoping the many more of her family members will also make the decision to be baptized on that day. Things are going pretty great in Sangre Grande.

Back in Arima we have been working a lot more with the branch missionaries. There are actually 14 branch missionaries and we are on a mission to go find them all and unite us all together at the branch missionary coordination meeting every Wednesday. Along with the missionary fireside that is going to happen at the end of the month with the stake president, we are hoping to get everyone excited about missionary work.

This last Sunday was Stake Conference. We weren't able to get any investigators out to it, because it's kind of far away from Arima, in Port of Spain. The conference was really great though. We heard from the Stake Presidency, the Patriarch, and a 70 from the DR, who spoke to us in spanish with a translator.

That's about all that happened this week. Things are moving forward pretty well here in Arima. It's exciting.

Elder Porritt