Hello Family!!
This week was pretty intense! Sounds like it
was pretty crazy for you as well. I can’t believe Shane will be in the MTC on
Wednesday! He’ll only be staying for 12 days so before you know it he’ll be in
Winnipeg. So exciting!! He’s going to love it and is going to see some amazing
miracles on his mission.
So this week we went to Mindelo for zone
conference, this upcoming week we have zone conference in Praia as well as
mission leadership council (we are no longer allowed to have zone leader’s
council because there are sister leaders now...), and next week we are going to
Fogo for ANOTHER zone conference. Lots of training's and awesomeness.
I’m pretty excited.
Yesterday was stake conference here in Praia
and today marks one year since the stake was organized here. Last year there
was just short of 1000 people in attendance, this year we had almost 1800!!!
Almost double in one year! It was so cool to see! Elder Matti Jouttenus, an
Area Seventy, was there and he gave an amazing talk. The Church is growing so
fast here and the members are awesome!! The members from Assomada came so I got
to see some of my recent converts and some of the members I worked with for the
first time in almost a year. One of my recent converts, N, is now married
and getting ready to go to the temple. There was also a family who was
extremely inactive when I was there who is now almost fully active. They had
started going to church just before I got transferred and now they are doing
awesome!! It was so cool to see the fruits of my work from over a year ago and
to see so many of the people that I love from my first area.
So yesterday we had a miracle. We had a guy who
was going to get baptized this upcoming week but we realized that he is not
actually ready so we didn’t have anyone to be baptized. That would make two
weeks in a row which is not good. However, we have this investigator named
E who has been going to church for about a month without us knowing. We
had taught him once and marked a date for him on May 11. He was super pumped
and yesterday we taught him the Restoration and when Elder Hill finished
telling the First Vision, he told us that he felt as if the world outside had
stopped and he just felt happy and awesome. We invited him to be baptized on
May 4 and he answered emphatically, I ACCEPT. This guy is amazing!!! Heavenly
Father is so merciful to us and is literally just sending His most prepared
children to us.
Well, enjoy the rest of the week. I love you all and hope
everything goes well!
