We had a great week this week. Who knew that new years here is so
crazy! Basically any kind of fireworks are legal here and WOW! I think
my ears are still ringing. this place is crazy. They are STILL using
fireworks all the time even though it is the 3rd! We have heard that it
is to get away all of the bad spirit's from 2017 and welcome 2018 with a
fresh start. something like that. All of Aruba is covered in red paper
from the left over fireworks and it always sounds like a war! Scary/fun
on the bikes for sure!
As well, David and
Melissa gave us a really sweet Christmas gift! They invited us to a
super cool restaurant called Texas de Brazil. It was soooo good. Buffet
with 13 men walking around with huge things of meat that they cut off
and put right on your plate. It is soooo fun! We felt like queens. Plus
they didn't even make us pay for it because they had some kind of
really nice coupon for it. David's dad works there so I don't know how
they made it work but it was awesome!
As well
we have so many really cool investigators. We are teaching two people
from Venezuela right now, Daniel and Nerwins. They are so awesome. When
we got there yesterday they had some cookie thingys waiting for us on
top of their pamphlets and everything. Daniel looks like Vin Deasel (how
do you even spell that) and they are just SO cool.
We also have Juan David on date! He is the son of David and Melissa and he is doing great! He is so excited for his baptism!
Also.... I hit my 10 month-aversary! so weird!!!
The
following is a portion of the letter I sent to my mission president
because I don't have too much time to write my big emails! Sorry!
The
area is doing so great! We are teaching some amazing people and we have
2 baptismal dates at the moment. They are both so promising. I am so
grateful that I will be able to stay here to continue to teach these
amazing people. I am blown away by how much this gospel changes lives
and I love the opportunity I have to witness the changes happen in the
peoples' lives here in Aruba.
Sister Davidson is so
great! We are so happy we get to stay companions for this next transfer!
We have been working really hard and really trying to follow the Lord's
will. We have really good unity and we are constantly having spiritual
experiences every time we do companionship study and every time we teach
a lesson. She is doing amazing and is such a great example for me!
Wow
my testimony is growing so much. I know God knows us so perfectly. What
we do and don't understand, our doubts, our fears, our strengths, our
desires, everything. He knows! I learn that everyday during personal
study. It is amazing.
My spiritual experience this week
was when we asked our investigator Leasbeth to be baptized. Wow! We
weren't able to see her for a while because she has a hard time
remembering our appointments, but we were finally able to see her one
night when we stopped by. We were able to sit down and have a catch up
lesson with her. When we taught her the Book of Mormon she really just
wanted to read from the beginning, so we invited her to do so. We
followed up with her reading and she couldn't remember where she had
left off because she didn't have her book with her. We gave her our book
to look through and after looking for a moment she said she was in
chapter 20, and of course we immediately thought she was talking about 1
Nephi. Then she said, "yep, chapter 20 of Mosiah." Our jaws dropped.
She hasn't had that book for very long! Then we just kept talking to her
and about the things we had taught her and she remembered everything so
perfectly. The spirit told us that we needed to ask her to be baptized
and so we did, and she was SO excited. She was just beaming with joy.
She said that it would be an honor, and then she yelled in to her house
in excitement calling to her mom to tell her the good news! The only
thing is that she is in her 30's. Haha Leasbeth is so amazing and loves
this gospel. She is already being a missionary and sharing this message
with all of her friends.
I love being a missionary!
-Sister Woodbury
Caught in the rain...again!
New Years dinner with member family
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