Our district has
experienced some miracles this week! The sisters in Dumbea Sur Mer have an ami
who is planning on getting baptized in August, the Elders of Dumbea now have a
car (it's a must to have a car in Dumbea because it's a HUGE secteur) that is a
yellow Juke, which Sœur Flake nicknamed the "Pikajuke," AND we have a
new ami that is progressing and that we're going to invite to be baptized in
August!
The ami is named
William and he's a friend of the Guidi family in the ward. He's been coming to
Church for a little while now, but we didn't push him to take the lessons
because we were waiting for him to ask us. And guess what! He finally did!
Haha, it helps that he and Moise started talking at Church and, because Moise
is a super member missionary, he really talked up the missionary lessons to
William. We've taught William every day so far this week, and we'll teach him
every day (besides today cuz it's P-day and we need a break). He's progressing
really fast and he understands everything really fast. It helps that he's
already read the whole Book of Mormon and now he's re-reading it more in depth,
and he's read the whole Principles of the Gospel book, and he reads all the
brochures we give him. He says he doesn't like reading buuuuuuuttttt that's a
lie, haha. And he's already quit smoking, drinking, and drinking coffee. He's
literally a golden investigator, and he could be baptized tomorrow.
But we're not gonna push too much because he wants to be sure about everything,
but he's already told us multiple times that he knows the Church is true. He
already refers to it as "our Church" not "your Church" like
other amis do up until they get baptized. Yeah, he's a miracle!
On Thursday, we had a
conference with the Grangers and we (finally) watched the Worldwide Missionary
Broadcast that everyone was talking about in January, haha. It's a really good
broadcast and, comme d'hab, [as always] I was super motivated to get out there and work
after the conference!
On Friday, we went to
visit this inactive sister that another member had told us about. We taught her
and talked with her and she wants to come back to church. Awesome! But then we
looked in the ward list, and she's not there. And we talked to the ward clerk to
search for her in the records for the stake, and she's not there. Meaning she's
not a member. WHAT. This is why we stress the fact that we are a Church of
ORDER because when there's not order, people get lost. So we need to figure out
what went wrong with her membership record... And yesterday, we heard that the
missionaries in the past didn't always send in the baptismal records to be put
in to the system, so maybe her record got lost somewhere... Oh man! Craziness!
Other than that,
things are going well here in the great VPVM! Sorry, I'm out of time to write!
Talk to you all next week!
Tal Toul!
Sœur Matheson
P.S. sorry for the
lack of pics I know you all hate me for not sending pics............. :)
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