Stories for the week!
-I blessed a baby on Sunday. Linaël Taïna Pedre. She's the daughter of a recent convert in our area, a single mother who chose me to do the blessing. Funny thing is, she never actually asked me myself. Our branch president told me in a CEP a while back. So, yeah, that was interesting.
-So do you remember Karine and Slorane from a while back? Well, some stuff happened and we hadn't seen them for a while, but then out of no where on Thursday she called us and asked us to come over! So we went over, and she explained that she really wants to put her life in order, and she asked for our help. She wants Slorane to get baptized first, so we're going to work with her and we'll see what we can do! She's a very intelligent kid. It was just kind of one of those tender mercy moments, the Lord letting us know that He's still aware of us.
-On Tuesday, we went and picked up a branch missionary, hoping to take him to teach several of our investigators that we had rendez vous with, and one in particular that we thought that he would be a good fit for. Well, of course, every one of those rendez vous fell through. As we were getting back into the car, a man came up to us and started talking to this branch missionary. Over the next twenty minutes, we found out that this man had gone to church and studied with the missionaries for three years, and that he wanted to get baptized, but didn't want to leave his girlfriend that he was not married to. Two years ago, he had decided to stop everything, and he hadn't talked to missionaries since then. Well, to make the story shorter, we ended up taking his number, and we're going to start teaching him again. He and his girlfriend live in different houses, so as long as we can get them to live the law of chastity, there is nothing that would keep him from getting baptized. Cool, right?
-I don't know if I ever mentioned this yet, but I'm leaving for Trinidad tomorrow morning. No, it's not a transfer-I'm coming back Thursday night. But if you remember, back in December, we had a Mission Leadership Conference where I left Guianne to go to Trinidad a few days. Same thing. So. That will probably be super inspiring and stuff. Details to come!
-My writing skills have not improved since I've been on my mission. But, as a side note, my handwriting may have! I've been practicing holding my pen with three fingers and forming my letters from the top. Also, I now write in my journal in cursive french.
-Welcome home, Jack!
-Thursday was our priesthood commemoration activity. We went for a hike in the woods. I got to carry somebody across a stream on my back!
-Beach jumping photos! This was the best one I had of Elder Harrison and I jumping. Yep.
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