MOm! I have some really cool
stuff to share with you! Firstly, I love your little personal revelation you had,
secondly I love the Macbeth's very much please tell them that. Baylin is very
beautiful and Brittan is getting pretty big! I want to see more pictures of you
all!
The baptism was amazing. Going in the ocean is so weird as a missionary. haha
We have had some very hard times but also a lot of success.The branch is
blooming and many investigators are coming to church.We are now working alot with
a part member less active family. The daughters are fromPeru and are married but
want to be married in the temple just got to work with their husbands and get
their lives in order.
We hunted iguanas with one of the husbands named fernando
and ate them last night. It was delicious way better than chicken! Also, the
other day they made us their country's dish sevichi.It is fish that isn't cooked
but the proteins change as if they were cooked because of the lime they soak it
in that catalyzes a reaction in the proteins by using enzymes...I am kind of
still a nerd.. although I may not have even written that right don't remember
the vocab well all I know was that it is now my most favorite food and I will
learn to make it :).
Yesterday the coolest thing happened. Haven't really seen
anything like it happen this way in church before.It was fast Sunday and an
investigator that we have only met with stood up to bear his testimony. Now
let me give some background on him. His name is Glenn he has three daughters and
a wife that only speaks spanish.He is from Curacao and she is from the DR. Also
he is a translator and speaks the four languages here on the island perfectly.
Well at first he didn't really want to meet with us he told us to come back next
weekend so we did and he said I have ten minutes do you still want to come in?
of course we said yes because contacts hardly every let us in here. He started
talking alot about how hard life is here for the natives on the island that he
doesn't understand how they live of of what they make and that families suffer
because parents can't provide and this island has a very dark side that is
corrupt with lots of drugs that kids start resorting to here because all there is
to do is swim dive or sit at home. As he was talking I felt like I should give
him the Family Proclamation to the World to him and show him the pictures of my
family that I always keep with it in my scripture case. So I did that and he
really started to get interested that a prophet that is actually called of God
revealed it with twelve apostles. We were able to share the entire restoration
because he wouldn't let us leave until we did and when we finished he said" you
are coming back I am reading this proclamation with my family to prepare them
and we need to hear this message together when can I go to your church and its
activities?" most perfect first lesson ever... then we dropped out of contact
with him because of all his work and the queen's birthday party festival going
on.. we started to feel like he lost interest and was avoiding us.
However, yesterday he walks in right as Railey is being confirmed with the Holy
Ghost and sits down. He listented to all the testimonies stood up and said ( I
was translating so I remember a lot of it.. even though he did start translating
for himself after awhile since he speaks perfectly) " I never have felt as
strange of a feeling as I felt right when I walked this little building, but I
know this is all right every since I talked to those two young men I knew I had
to come here but it was hard because I have been so disappointed by every
church. I gave up a little I just want a place where I could go with my family. I
don't want to go to church alone so I got so frustrated. I stopped going to
churches it has been eight months that I stopped trying to go and when I read
this paper that that missionary gave me I studied over it for two days( as he
holds it up with his notes taken all over it) and I read it with my wife and
she agrees with it and I feel it is right and inspired of God. Thank you for this
paper, but I need all of you help because I want to be part of this church and I
need my family to be here. I am tired of feeling so alone I can't take it anymore.
I have no one here that cares for me except my family and I only stay here
because they like it here and I don't want to take them from home. Please help
me thank you for your help so far, but please help my family come be here
together I know we need to be here when I got up and ready for church this
morning my wife said where are you going I said to church and she asked me which
one I told her you already know she smiled at me and I walked out the door. And
something else just like these other people shared we need to help other people
come here they need to feel this. This building isn't big enough to hold the
spirit that there is here we need a chapel a big one and we are going to fill it
with people because this is God's church." Yeah so that was probably one of my
favorite moments in my mission the spirit was very strong. Besides that this
week was kind of a blur went really fast and really busy I am just really
excited to see this whole branch continue to grow ,
Please send me more pics I
love you! Elder Bell
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