Mauri,
Things are going really good here. I have had another great
week!! Transfers did come and they will
start next week but I am not being transferred. So it looks like I will be here
probably till the end of April or the beginning of May. My companion is named
Elder Benjamin Bonney. He is from Maryland but goes to school at the U of U.
His family moves around a bunch so he has lived in Europe, Africa, and random
places in the states. His dad is in the military. He has 14 kids in his family
and he is the 4th oldest. 2 of them are adopted from Africa and there are 2
sets of twins. He has been out a little over a year now. When I flew in from
Kiritimati Island they flew in from America. So they are exactly 6 months after
me. He is chill so that is good.
This week we
have been working with families and that is the best. Nothing is better than
seeing a family that used to be angry all the time or they just don't have a
good feeling about them, to seeing them just be super happy and to just have a
good feeling when you walk into their house.
This last
week for service we made a sandbox for this family. The
house that we made it at does a preschool type thing that they do for kids in
the community that can't pay for people to go to preschool. So that was fun for
the kids.
Another
great thing that happened this week is we have been teaching a girl named Natia. Her husband is a less active RM. They are going to be married soon and she will
be baptized the week after that!! This
week we have been teaching her the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She really just understood faith and repentance
and is just doing really well. She was
talking about how she went to another village one day and came back and
everyone at the house was mad at her because she was supposed to have prepared
food for everyone while the rest of them had been out working or at school and
stuff. She said when they were all mad
and such she said the Holy Ghost just told her that she should apologize to
them. So instead of getting angry back
or something else she just apologized. Then
when we taught repentance and we talked about apologizing to people and
confessing our sins to people we have sinned against and confessing our sins to
our Heavenly Father she said she felt the Holy Ghost was helping her do that. That
isn't that big of a story but I thought it was pretty cool. She said before she always just felt like a
bad person and she felt like she had no real good thing that was going on in
here life, but now she feel like there are so many good things that go on and
she is feeling a lot better about life. Honestly
this Gospel changes people. Our
investigator Rubi came to church this Sunday for the first time. He stood up and talked about how he had gone
to school to become a Catholic Father for 2 years until he got together with
his wife, but he said he is happy to be at church. So that is pretty sweet!!
You asked if
I had a funny story for the week. I am
not sure. Lots of funny stuff happens but I don't ever really remember.
Many people
are just doing so well in this gospel. Lots
of people coming into the waters of baptism and lots are working towards it. Missionary work is really good.
I hope you guys have an amazing week, keep
remembering the Lord in all the things you do.
Love,
Elder
Dinsdale
Zone Conference: Tarawa
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