Hello beautiful family of mine! It sounds like your week was awesome! Congrats to Chazzerazz and Trev Trev on taking the plunge! That decision is the best decision you'll ever make! Now you're both perfectly clean! So don't screw up! lol. Just kidding.
My week was great as well. :) Have I ever said otherwise? No! Because every week as a missionary is the best week ever! As you can see from the pictures, we spent part of the week in the Capital, and the rest of the week in the streets!
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Mountain dew! I found it in a super market
by the office! 10/9/2013 |
On Wednesday afternoon we hopped on a giant Caribe Tours bus and made the 3.5 hour trip into the capital. It was a long ride... But we made it to the mission home alive. ha. There are two good things about sleeping over at the mission home: First, it's next door to a big, American-style supermarket. Second, there's a hot water heater. haha. But besides those two things, I usually just end up missing my own bed.
Thursday we spent the day at the La Paz chapel, where Elder Fassett is currently serving, for a mission counsel meeting. So along with all the other Zone Leaders, I got to see him and the Elder he's currently training! Our mission counsel meeting was awesome! The APs talked to us about being more bold when we meet people, and using key words like "restoration, prophets, apostles, priesthood authority, etc." to get our investigator's attention. Sometimes we get lumped together with all the other door to door preachers in the streets, and the people can't tell if we're Baptists or Jehovah's Witnesses. ha. So we need to make it clear that we're not like everybody else! Our message is different, and it changes lives! They told us that we're like modern day Samuel the Lamanites and modern day Abinadis. ha. They had us read and analyze Helaman 14:11-13, Helaman 16:1-3, and Mosiah 13:3, and then practice being bold with in a mock contact with our companions. :)
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| Elder Fassett and I. Do we look different than when we started? ha. 10/10/2013 |
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| Our mission counsel. (all 11 sets of ZLs, the APs, and Pres and Hermana) 10/10/2013 |
Also, President and Hermana Rodriguez both gave us some good insight on how we can be better as leaders, and how to better help our Zones achieve their goals.
The rest of the week was spent applying what we learned! My companion and I fasted on Saturday evening/Sunday morning for help finding new people to teach... Seeing that Carlos and Karen are getting baptized this weekend, we're running pretty low on progressing investigators. ha. But guess what! God loves us, and answers our prayers! On Saturday night we were contacting... We got to the first house, talked to the guy sitting on his porch, and he said... I don't even want to talk to you guys. So we were bold and asked him what he thought about prophets and apostles, and he said, NO, I don't even want to hear about it.
Yeah... we were bummed. But we went to the next house anyway... and... Nothing. The next house..? They were Adventists and were too busy to talk to us and said to come back another time. And that's how it was for the next five or six houses... At this point, I was feeling pretty down. I was hungry, and tired, and just wanted to go home... But, we went to the next house anyway. We hiked the metal staircase and as we were about to yell "saludos," a guy came to the door. ha. He looked surprised to see us there, but just smiled and told us to come on in... He told us his name was Jonathan, and that he is currently on medical leave from work, and that's why we caught him at home. His wife is an inactive member of the Church, and he is open to all religions. We talked to him about prophets, apostles and the fact the God is a God of order, not a God of confusion. He accepted a return appointment for this weekend. :) I don't actually know if Jonathan will progress and/or end up in the font. But the experience was a nice little reminder of the fact that my Heavenly Father loves me, and He hears me when I pray. :)
Quick update on Carlos and Karen: Karen went to set an appointment for their wedding, but didn't have her divorce certificate from her first marriage, so she went to get that this morning and then headed to the Junta to set the wedding date.
Yesterday Jonathan (Karen's son) turned 16, and received the keys of the Aaronic Priesthood that pertain to the office of a Priest. :) Also, President Pindeda (our branch president) announced their baptism for next Saturday at 4 p.m., and then in the evening my companion and I met with the Branch Mission Leader to put together a schedule for the baptism. :) Now all we need to do is fill the font! :) With God at our side, this will all work out! Please pray for us!
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Everyday life in Barahona! The men are mending their nets, and the lady is sorting and drying coffee beans.
10/11/2013-10/12/2013 |
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| La Maquina at work! haha. 10/13/2013 |
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| 10/8/2013 |
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| My comp teaching an investigator to sing hymns, street contacting, and weeding a member's patio while talking to Omar about his mission call. ha. My comp is a beast! |
I love and miss you all! I hope this week is a good one. :)
Just so you don't forget, I know this church is true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Elder Cade Mooney
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