This week was transfer week, which means that we had a lot of different Elders to pick up from and drop off at the airport. Monday morning we had Elder Weiss come in to stay for a day to catch his flight to Curacao. He was fortunate to be here, because that night Elder and Sister Williams fed us RIBS, and invited some less active members over as well so we could talk to them. The next morning we woke up at 5:30 and took him all the way to the airport to find out that his flight got delayed by 12 hours. We also had two Elders from Guyana that came through on their way back home. They came with us to teach Roger and several other investigators. The following day we got up at 3AM to take the two of them to the airport for their flight to Curacao. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep this week, but it was a blast.
Now I'm with my new companion Elder Stott finally. He is an awesome Elder, we are going to have a great transfer together, no doubt. Yesterday we had a funny experience at church. We were sitting in Sunday school with all the adults in the chapel, when this man walks in. He had long rasta dreads, and he sat down and started yelling. The teacher would ask a question and he would yell out the answers and ask funny questions. We went to sit by him to see what was up, and he had a lot of alcohol on his breath. We ended up going to another room and trying to talk to him, but he was too drunk and just kept yelling and saying funny things. It was a real adventure. Eventually he went outside, peed on the grass and left. haha
Saturday we had MLC which was great. We were at the Williams and skyped with all the other leaders in the mission, it's great to be able to see some of them again. Interestingly, our mission has been selected as a pilot mission for this new idea with smartphones. So either this next transfer, or the one after, all the companionships will be receiving smartphones. haha. This isn't going to hardly affect me at all, but that's ok, it's going to GREATLY help the missionaries behind me to be more effective and communicate more effectively with the members and investigators.
We had a cool experience that happened yesterday while we were in POS teaching Carlos and Barbara. They actually weren't at the house when we got there, so we just sat down with Gustavo, who was there, and taught him about how to use Preach My Gospel effectively, which we had given him a couple of weeks prior. He has that recent convert FIRE in his eyes, and asked us what he should study from it to become the most effective missionary he could. Then we read through part of 2 Nephi 9 and talked a little bit about the Atonement, and that was when Carlos and Barbara got back home. We just talked about how Jesus Christs' Atonement was an infinite one, and that without it we would never have any hope of being cleansed from sin. Then we talked about how baptism by immersion is symbolic of being cleansed from sin, and how we have to go all the way under the water in order for it to count, that was when Carlos realized that his former baptism, which was a sprinkling baptism, wasn't complete in that sense, and he said "I want to be baptized". The Spirit was really teaching him and helping him connect all the dots together in his head. I am so grateful for the Spirit in the work.
Gopall has been having some health problems this week with the new medication that he has been prescribed. We haven't been able to see him because of that, but we should be going to see him probably on Tuesday. Also, his sister is coming up from Guyana. She has been taking the missionary lessons for the last couple of weeks as well, and seems pretty interested, so we are excited!
Elder Porritt
No comments:
Post a Comment