Bonjour!
Things have been
pretty good this past week. Sunday went really well for us, as we had the most
Amis at church since I’ve been here. It’s really nice to see how well some of
them are progressing! On Monday night we had a really special FHE with one of
the families we are teaching. It’s the family with one young man who is a
member (Romario). Its crazy to see how well they’ve progressed. At first even
he was hesitant giving us they’re contact because he said there was no hope,
and even our first lesson with them, the Mom sort of brought up as well that
there was no hope, and that they were staying Catholic, but would still follow
the lessons anyways. So we’ve been teaching them and they’ve even started
coming to church. The Mom told us a really cool story about it as well. She
said that after our lessons she wasn’t really planning on coming to church, but
when she woke up the morning before Sunday, she said it was like a voice in her
head telling her to go to church with us. She said she didn’t really know why
it was there, but took it as being from God and decided to come with us. Even
the rest of her family was stunned seeing her coming along but she came, and
she LOVED it there. It was good to see that as well as with Gbegamey still
being a little weaker branch, sometimes things don’t run as well, but she saw
past those things and that day at church had a huge impact on her. On Monday we
were with the family again, and this time we brought "The Restoration" DVD. It’s
a killer. And had a spiritual experience watching that, just like every time.
Both the mom and the daughter explained after the special feelings they felt
while watching that, and we helped them understand it was the Holy Ghost
confirming the truth of the message. They both have baptismal dates fixed for
the next few weeks, and are no doubt very ready for those. Its amazing to see
how powerful the spirit can be, and how us as missionaries only set things up
to where the spirit can come in and help them know these things are true.
Our
other Amis are coming along really well also! So it’s very nice to see the work
progressing like it is now. We went out and taught as well with one of my
converts from the first time in Gbegamey on Thursday and that was really fun.
He told me a story that touched me a lot as well. Since I’ve been back he’s
been to church every Sunday, but the member who gave him to us as a contact
hasn’t been. We were talking about it, and he was telling me how it all kind of
started one night when he was there with a few member friends, and there was a
party going on. It was a pretty rough one and there was alcohol there as well.
They were tempted to go, saying that they would just avoid the alcohol, but he
kept telling them it wasn’t the best idea. After talking about it for a while
he tried again to convince them not to go, but they left leaving him behind. He
went home and came to church the next morning and didn’t see them there. When
he visited them later he found that they had all been caught drinking at the
party and things aren’t going too well with them. He told me he still tries to
help them come back and return to church, but it hasn’t worked much since and
they still haven’t been back. The story reminded me a ton of one of those
classic church stories, but really touched me a lot that even though his good
friends and examples in the church made a bad choice, he chose to stand alone,
and in the end avoided big problems in his life. So things are going pretty
well with the work!
President Morin and his wife left to Togo with the couple
this past Wednesday so we’ve been kind of running things solo here. We’ve done
our best to "Hold down the Fort" as he told us to. Driving is still
great as ever as well, and the excitement never gets old ha-ha. Things have
been pretty cooled down the past week as well which has been nice! This rainy
season has been much more cool than the last. We have a big group of
missionaries going home this next week, so Monday we planned a Anglo-phone vs.
Franco-phone basketball game which I’m pretty pumped about. I was named a
starter, so I’m sure you guys are pretty proud about that:) Ha-ha, it will be
fun though, our team is mostly Americans and a couple Ghanaians, even though
they’re not the best it just makes our team look more athletic. Unfortunately
Desvergez is playing on the other team along with Lemaire. So we'll have to see
how that goes! But yeah all is going pretty well here! I love and miss you all
a ton, I hope you have a great next week!
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| Little dog we found:) |
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