Training, Preaching, Repenting and Baptizing!

January 23, 2017

This week was pretty great! We got to skype into a training done by one of the Caribbean Area Seventies named Elder Gamiette! He is way cool and a very powerful speakers as all General Authorities are! The training was for church leaders and missionaries and talked a lot about how we need to be preaching repentance and baptizing converts! It really makes sense that when an investigator has repented, he will feel the joy that brings and he or she will want to continue to feel that by coming to church and partaking of the Sacrament each and every week! As for us members the same thing applies that when we understand repentance we will be truly converted to the gospel!!! 

Then also we were meeting with one of our investigators last night named Patrick and he is doing pretty good! However last night he started telling us about his life and how hard it is! It was pretty awful to sit there and listen to him tell us about how he has NO family here on the Island, they are all in Haiti. He told us that he has nothing; he doesn’t even have his own wooden home... He has no true friends, gets paid practically nothing and works 6 days a week all day long! It really just made me think about everything that we have! Sometimes we may think we have it hard but we don’t. Hopefully I can continue to be more humble and grateful for what I do have rather than what I don’t have! I love this gospel and the Gospel provides us with the love that we need to continue! 

January 30, 2017

We had a really great week this week! A lot of learning! We had the worldwide Missionary Broadcast and I learned a lot about Preaching Repentance and Baptizing Converts! It was really great and they also announced how there is a new schedule for our days and that has been really good also! Gives us more of a choice as to when we want to do our studies and planning so that is very nice! 

Then our mission president and his wife were able to come to the Turks for a few days at the end of the week! It was really good having them here to try and help the branch and to help figure out more with the language barrier we are having! We talked a lot about maybe bringing in a Haitian missionary that speaks English also and just being in a tri-companionship! That would really be so good for this area because the Haitians are ready for the gospel but we just can’t give it to them because we don’t speak the language! So President will be working on that but other than that we had a really good week! We were able to help more people come to know Jesus Christ better and start helping them to repent and change their lives! So I am excited about that and excited to continue to help these people!