Week 53 - Curacao

Well, this week was pretty darn uneventful as well! Curacao is doing really well! IT HAS BEEN SOOOO WINDY!!!! Somebody needs to tell me how strong the wind is so that i am not crazy. It has to be super crazy MPH because holy cow. We have been contacting quite a bit, but unfortunately no one is ever home! We have been able to find some people who are being prepared though so our efforts aren't wasted. We have been working with this one less active named Angel and it has been so awesome to see the changes he is beginning to make. He is really changing and regaining a love for the gospel and just getting to watch that is such a wonderful experience. He is doing really well.
 

Sister Garcia is doing awesome and she is just a really great missionary. She really follows the spirit to know what to say and she is just a very good example to me. I cannot believe she already has 9 months in her mission! I remember when she came in. She has just grown so much and has really formed into a very diligent missionary.

This week we taught a man named Etson. He is a very special man who has semi recently lost his vision because of a health problem that he has. We were just teaching him a very basic lesson about God when we asked him if he believed if God really sent His son especially for him, and he told us "Yes i believe He sent His son for me."We then asked him how he felt when he said that and he just said very enthusiastically "I feel really good, content, happy!!" It was so simple but so sweet and my testimony really just grew in that moment. I love being a missionary so much. I know that is a very simple experience but that really was something that just touched my heart. This work is amazing.I am happyyy!! 

I just want to invite you all to be missionaries where you are and figure out what the ward mission plan is wherever you are! If there isn't one, MAKE ONE! This is the Lord's work and the only true church. His church!! I hope you all have a wonderful week and I wish you all a very merry saint patricks day! :)

-Ruman/Hermana/Zuzter/Sister Woodbury

PS, Dad- to answer your question, Curacao is definitely the place to go as a tourist. There is wayyy more to do here than in aruba or bonaire...but make sure you come with money! That is what you HAVE to have to do anything. Its not too bad but i feel like there jsut isnt too much to do on any of the islands. curacoa would be best though. prettiest as well :) bonaire has the prettiest ocean though. 

Finally...a new toaster!