Monday, June 25, 2018

Week 68 - Bonaire

Wow...we had a great week over here! Felt like the end of a movie where everything just works out. It was so awesome. We got transfer calls and I am headed to Aruba for the 3rd time!!!! I will be companions with sister Hardy! Craziness!

We went to zone conference (our last one with the Egberts) in Curacao last week! We flew there in a TEENY TINY 8 passenger plane. I have literally been in buses bigger than that thing. It was soooo fun and i got to see sister Cole and sister Davidson! I love them both! It was awesome!

Saturday we had a baptism! That day was NUTS. Buuut i will go into that later! 

Bonaire is doing so awesome!! Mainly I just wanted to let you know about how wonderful the Relief Society is doing here! My heart was sooo warm after this last Sunday. Sister Burrup and I taught relief society two weeks in a row, and this last week the President herself taught it. It was such a success!! We talked about ministering and during the lesson she even said "wow, these classes are a lot more interesting than what we used to do". Hearing that just filled my heart. Before, they would just read through something random in a random Liahona and now they are having excellent classes with lots of participation. It is now very spiritually uplifting! Also, Sister Burrup and I had a baptism on Saturday and it went very well. Luis is so converted! Bonaire is really starting to thrive. 

Wow has my testimony grown this week! We have seen so many miracles this week, mostly on Saturday. So our investigator Luis was supposed to get to the church at 3:30 because the baptismal service started at 4 and he knew to be there early. Well, at 3:15 we received a call from a random phone number (because he doesn't have a phone) and it was Luis! He was borrowing someones phone to ask us for help! He was stuck at work about 15 minutes away by car! He was SO stressed out and just begging us for ideas. Well, the person who owned that phone needed to leave and we lost communication with him. We hopped right down onto our knees and begged for help. We didn't know what else to do so we just went over to where he lives about 15-20 minutes after we had talked with him thinking that there was no way he would be home, BUT HE WAS! It was a miracle. Later on he told us that some dutch lady saw him completely stressed out and frazzled and offered to take him home. He just dropped everything and left work without permission from his boss or anything. He said he just yelled "BYE BYE" to his boss and his boss was so confused as to what was happening. Well, he got home, got ready and everything, and then a member picked him up. He ran back to his work with the member to explain what had happened and the member had actually known his boss and was totally calm and okay with it! He even congratulated Luis even though he isn't really very religious himself. Then he made it to the chapel right at 4. It was amazing. He said he was praying the whole time and just wanted to cry because it was so stressful. He kept saying over and over again that he wouldn't have missed that baptism for anything in the world. It was a beautiful and flawless experience! God truly answers our prayers! And Luis is SO converted!!!

That is all i can really think of, but life it good and I am happy! Have a great week and don't forget to read your BOM!

-Sister Woodbury
 









 

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