Hey family!
So this week was pretty good. No we did not get
robbed again. Already learned that lesson and we will no longer be leaving the
balcony door open at night. I haven’t heard from the new Canadian since he left
two weeks ago. They don’t waste any time getting them to their new area
although I’m sure he’s doing well. I did hear that he had an unfortunate
experience with the Fast Ferry though... I hope I never have to take that boat.
If I do, it won’t be for a long time because I don’t feel like I’m gonna be
leaving this island any time soon.
So not much to report this week. We had zone
conference on Wednesday which was AWESOME!!! President Oliveira is an inspired
man called of God and he knows EXACTLY what the Lord wants us to do. All we
have to do is do it. We are putting a lot of focus on learning the basic
doctrines taught in Preach My Gospel and as a result, President challenged us
to memorize 30 scriptures from PMG in the next two transfers. Elder Hill and I
decided that we wanted to up the challenge so we are going to memorize a
scripture a day from now until the deadline. I am not going to be familiar with
my English scriptures when I get home. But that’s ok! I’m really seeing an
improvement in my teaching because of this and I know that it’s only going to
get better. Also we gave a training in Zone Conference on the role of the
Spirit in Conversion.
So unfortunately, our wedding may have to be
postponed for a bit. We are having trouble finding a time when we can go to the
registry with them and we have been feeling that they need a bit more time. It
WILL happen though, but maybe not till next transfer. Other than that though,
things are looking good. We have four people preparing for baptism for this
upcoming week and have been finding some awesome new investigators. Two of the
four for this week are going solid but the other two don’t have permission from
their parents yet. BUT that will all change tonight. We both feel like things
are going to go well and tonight we are going to talk to their parents again.
We had a really good lesson with them last night and the Spirit really touched
their mom. So our lack of baptisms is going to end this week and we are really
feeling good about the end of the transfer. We are receiving a lot of help from
the members and Heavenly Father keeps sending us His prepared children.
Not much else to report. I can’t believe you
guys go back to school already!! Craziness... enjoy the end of summer and have
a good week!
Elder Dola
