Helloooo!!!!!!!!!!
We
had a great week over here, as usual! Filled of fun and preaching and
meetings! Most of the lessons we had were over three days because we
had lots of meetings and stuff that needed to get done! I'll go
backwards...it's easier to remember that way hahaha.. Sooo today was so
fun! We had a district activity where we went on a half day island
tour! We went to a lot of the same sights that I went to at the
beginning of my mission when I was a little awkward and trying to figure
out my new surroundings, but this tour was a lot more organized and I
was able to enjoy it a lot more! The Thackery's (senior missionary
couple) usually serve in Guyana but they were here for a week helping
with some things here.
Sunday was great!
Lots of meetings and a good branch council. The branch is really
whipping itself back into shape! It got a little rough there for a
while, but prayer really works and its doing so much better! Not 100%
but with a little more effort and prayers they are going to be back
stronger than ever! After Branch council yesterday we went out teaching
with a member named Victor who is the 2nd councilor in the branch
presidency. We went and taught Gyro (i dont know what i have mentioned
about him but he is Margarita's friend) and it was awesome! Victor is
such a great teacher and such a great support for Gyro! We taught the
first vision and it was very spiritual! Gyro understands everything
really well! Now he has a friend in the church as well as a support
system! WOOHOO! We love teaching when members come along!
Saturday
was INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! President Nelson felt inspired a week and a half
ago to go to the Dominican Republic and do a broadcast for the Caribbean
saints. He did a broadcast in the morning for ALL of the missionaries
and it was SO fun! A ton of people spoke. Elder and Sister Alfonso
couple, Elder and Sister Gonzales, the MTC president and his wife, the
Renlunds, two others. Then President Nelson spoke! He gave an
apostolic blessing to all of the missionaries and tagain in the later
address to all of the Caribbean members. He spoke some VERY inspired
words and It was wonderful! Then in the later one for the members he
spoke SPANISH! He gave his talk in Spanish! Soooo crazy! He did a great
job and was simply adorable.
Other than
that our week was pretty occupied by the same old same old. We are
teaching a man named Juancarlos who is AWESOME!!! Basically our whole
contact area is just GREAT! We are loving it. Every time we ask a
member to come with us they are terrified because its not the safest
area...sooo funny. One member said she was scared to leave her car!!
But we haven't ever been in any danger and the only people who say we
shouldn't be there are the members.. Somebody did get shot there a
couple of nights ago though... i promise we will be careful and listen
to the Spirit! Crazy....missionary life!
Anywayyyyy.......
This week I wanted to share a testimony building experience. We were
teaching this sweet elderly man of another faith and he basically just
asked us a series of questions about why we don't do certain things in
our church. Why we don't memorize and repeat prayers, why we don't pray
to the Virgin Mary, etc. And I just kept repeating "because that's not
taught in the bible." During that lesson it occurred to me how real the
apostasy was. People have filled churches with man-made doctrine and it
is just heart breaking! There are so many people who are true seekers of
Christ but they are just so blinded by doctrine taught by man. I am
sooo grateful for living prophets and for the revelations they have
received. There just isn't anything in the scriptures that is contrary
to what we live and practice. The world is still in apostasy and that is
why we are here! To proclaim the truth! To help get people out of the
deep, deep effects of the apostasy! I love the gospel so much.
We
also are teaching this new investigator named Michael! MICHAEL IS SOOOO
COOL! He literally says the doctrine before we even teach anything. We
were teaching him about how prophets receive power and authority from
God, and then he jumped in and started talking about how there is no way
all churches have that. He said he has always wanted to talk to pastors
about this but they always get mad at him so he can't. He went on for a
good five minutes talking about how there are just so many churches and
he just doesn't think they are all of God. It doesn't make sense to
him. He doesn't trust pastors anymore because all they do is go to
school and "become" pastors and priests. He says they can't be called of
God. He just went off about all of this craziness for like 5 minutes
at least and we just sat there with our jaws dropped. Insane. He is
soooo cool.
I hope you are all doing well with your Book Of
Mormon challenge! My love for that book grows so much faster when I am
doing challenges so this is really helping me! I have LOVED this
challenge SO much! PLEASE KEEP GOING!!!!
Well, that is all i have for all of you this week, I hope you all have a great week! Big Hugs!
-Sister Woodbury
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