29 August 2016
Time is flying. It's so crazy. It's been an awesome week.
One
bummer from this week was that Lu wasn't baptized, she's gunna need a
little bit more time. We went to visit her to go over the baptismal
questions, and she told us that she's still drinking coffee, even though
she's trying to quit. It was kinda funny, she told us, "I got rid of
all my coffee, but it got so bad, I just went out and bought more!". She
also feels that she wants to prepare a little bit more for baptism. We
had a really good lesson with her on Friday where we talked about
baptism and what reservations she had. The Spirit was really strong in
the lesson, and we went over Alma's question to the people where he
says, "what impedes you from being baptized?", and she looked at us and
was like, "well, I guess nothing". We're gunna move her date forward a
little bit, hopefully she can be baptized by the end of the month.
We've
kept working with our investigators Tommy and Debora. They're seriously
so cool, like some of my favorite people I've found on my mission. They
are likely the first people I've taught where we mark to go by and
teach them, and they are there EVERY. TIME. It's a Cape Verdean thing I
guess. This week we took our Branch President with us to meet them, and
the lesson we taught them lasted almost an hour, and despite the fact
they're 17 and 15, they didn't care, and loved the whole thing! They had
tons of questions about baptism and receiving the Holy Ghost, which was
rad. On one of our subsequent visits, the rest of the family, who was
sitting in the other room playing cards, was like, "wait, you're leaving
already? stay and play with us!", to which we had to politely tell them
we would next time :P because of their questions about baptism, we had
planned to take Tommy to watch the baptisms on Saturday with us, Debora
told us she would likely go to see her dad who lives on the other side
of Praia, but when we showed up on Saturday, she answered the door, all
dressed up, ready to go with us. It was funny because while at the
church, Tommy kept teasing Debora, mostly when he found a poster showing
the dress standards for youth, and Debora's dress didn't go to her
knees, so he ripped on that. It was classic. They're like super
prepared, really really cool. We should be seeing a lot of progression
with them.
A fun thing that happened this week was a Stake
activity in which they ran a 'mini-MTC' for a bunch of perspective
missionaries, and every companionship of missionaries in Praia received
two mini missionaries to take out and work with for a couple days, from
Friday night til Sunday night. My recent convert from my last area,
Adiley, was there and served for a couple days. It was so cool to see.
For me, I got Brother Gomes, a kid who lives on the other side of Praia
and is a member of 3 or 4 years or so. I know I could've been a little
more patient with him than I was, but it was a fun experience for us. He
was really excited by the end of it about what he learned, and has a
solid desire to go out and serve a mission now. There were a few classic
moments where he asked a couple of questions, like, "what time does
church start?" to which I asked him, "well, what does your planner
say?" or when I put on my sunglasses and he said, "oh, so you use those
when the sun comes out?" and I told him, "when, yeah, they're
sunglasses" hahahaha. He was a really sweet guy, and wrote me a really
nice note that he hid in my scriptures telling me how much he liked his
mini mission. It was a good experience.
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| Elder Massey with "Elder" Gomes - his mini missionary |
Another funny
story from this week, I met up with a member, Tatiana, from Cova
Figueira that shouted at me from a taxi one night on our way home.
Thankfully Elder Masubelele, who also served in Cova Figueira, knew her,
and she was also staying in his area, so we met up with them on Pday
and had lunch at her aunt's restaurant and got to catch up with her.
It's funny because this country is so small, you can literally see
anyone you've met on your mission at any given point in time, especially
in Praia, because people pass through here all the time. I found out
this week that a couple I found through Adiley about 3 months ago is now
getting married and baptized this week, and next week, Mundinho and
Nixi from my last area are getting married! Always lots going on here.
It's so cool to see the little ways in which the Lord uses you as his
instrument at different points for different people.
Well, that's about been my week! Love y'all!
Elder Massey
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| Dancing in the streets |
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