8 MONTHAVERSARY!
Well
this week was so fun! I really dont have too much to say because we
were in Trinidad most of the week, but it was so fun! I seriously love
Trinidad soooooooo much. Words cannot describe. Like wow! I want to
serve there so badly. I actually had a dream that i received my permit
to work there. then i woke up. Darn it. Haha!
Well,
zone conference there was AMAZING!!!! A member from the Seventy (area
leadership) , Elder Alonso came. Wow. So basically he said this mission
is the best. At lunch he came and sat at our table :) He told us his
conversion story and it was really awesome. After lunch, the elders did
a role play of a lesson about the BoM being taught to an
"Investigator". After the role play, Elder Alanso got up and said, and I
quote: "I have been a 70 for 11 years. This is the first time I have
seen missionaries teach people, not just a lesson". After he said that i
looked around the room and everyone was tearing up. It was just so
powerful and such a wonderful manifestation that our hard work is paying
off! It also reassured me about how insanely inspired President Egbert
is. So awesome. He told us he can only see blessing in the future for
this mission. He was really impressed by us and told Pres. that he is
doing a great job. An amazing experience to say the least!
Other
than that though, not too much happened this week! Our branch president
here in Bonaire is awesome! He reminds me SO much of Brother Worthen
though! Haha! Just the Bonaire version. It's kinda freaky hahaha! He
is awesome though. He has a really young family and so often in Branch
council or other church meetings he us just over there holding his
baby. Last night he was literally holding his baby and writing on the
white board about branch business. Literally so awesome. I love the
Albus family!
So some fun little experiences for you this week:
We
were teaching this lady who was at one point investigating the church
for 13 years, but could never get baptized because she is living with
her boyfriend. Well, during our lesson a bus from a church from very,
very different religion pulled up to pick her up from church. Oh. My.
Heck. We were dying. It was so awkward. literally a bus came in the
middle of our lesson to pick her up for church. Man! Also, we taught
Nuris this week and wow! She was telling us about how she was reading
the BoM, and then she read about Nephi dying. She said she was
uncontrollably sobbing. she was SO sad. I love her so much. she loves
the Book of Mormon more than anything! Also, we were teaching this lady
named Fania. We had a really good lesson about prayer and how to know
if our message was true, and at the end of the lesson she gave one of
the most sincere prayers i have ever heard. she sounded like Joseph
Smith as he prayed for guidance about which church to join! She asked
which church was true, if Joseph smith was indeed a prophet, and if the
book of mormon was true. She was crying and it was just a very
spiritually powerful lesson. We love her and everyone we are teaching!
Well that is it from me this week, but I hope you all have a great week!
-Sister Woodbury
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