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The Dominican food hit me hard...
[Two updates this post]
Update From 7/9/18:
Well, I just emailed on Wednesday.
The rest of the week felt like the blink of an eye!
Things
have been going well in our area, still trying to build up our teaching pool.
But we’ve been teaching lots of member families! We had zone conference on
Thursday and President Barney has been wanting us to focus on teaching as many
lessons as we can so we can become master teachers. (And help practice more Spanish!!).
So that’s been a blast!
Well, not
much really to update on this week because it was pretty short. We contacted a
couple new people, and Saturday we helped a part-member family tear down a tree
house! We’ve also started teaching the son of a recent convert who’s 9 and just
a ball of energy. Its super fun haha.
I dont
have a ton of time, but I just want to bare you all my testimony of this work.
I know God lives and is in the details of our lives. He truly does love us! I
know it. He loves us enough to “prune us back” so we have the capacity to grow
even more. The mission has not been easy for sure, but it’s helped me realize I
can grow through Christ’s atonement. We can all be instruments in his hands to
lift those around us if we let him. Go make someone’s day brighter!
I love all
you guys and hope you all have a super week.
-Elder
Bolinder
Update From 7/16/18
Overall it’s been a good week.
Went by super fast again! We’ve been working with a lot of our members and
recent converts still. The Flores familia is still doing wonderful! We are also
working with another brother to help prepare him to enter the temple! Had
exchanges this week with the Karen elders, and interviewed someone they’re
teaching for baptism. Exciting! We’ve also been doing some heavy biking lately,
man I forgot how out of shape my legs are! Haha.
We are
finally meeting with our Dominican friend Jonathon again! It was really cool,
we watched the restoration video with their family and his eyes were fixed the
whole time. He even asked some questions at the end which was great because he
usually doesn’t open up much. We can tell that he is feeling the Spirit testify
to his heart, but he still says he wants to take his time with baptism and
continue learning. We will just have to be patient. So before we went over, we
had just got done eating a rica hispanic dinner with another family. Right when
we get there, they say “Come on in! Sit down!” And they load up a huge plate of
Dominican rice and beans with fried bananas! So, the whole time during the
movie I was just trying to keep everything in my stomach and not throw up from
having double dinner😂
We had a
really awesome experience afterwards. We were walking to our car to go home
when we walked past this woman in the parking lot. We waved, said hi, and
walked right on by. Didn’t think anything of it. Then we hear very quietly from
behind us, “Hey, um.. can I talk to you?” We Came to find out that she was
baptized a member of the LDS church when she was 11, and she hasn’t been to
church since she was that age. She got emotional and told us how her grandpa
had a strong testimony of Christ and the church, and she wants to find peace
and the love that she knew she felt as a child. It was such a sweet moment to
be able to comfort her and testify to her that God placed us in her path for a
reason. She then told us how she wasn’t going to say anything when we passed
by, but that she felt something inside telling her she needs to turn around.
How cool!!! We referred her to the English sisters, just another experience to
testify that God directs this work and prepares hearts to return to Him!
We also
got to go back and see our Puerto Rican friends Evelyn y Angelo. We went with
the new Hermanas and gave them a priesthood blessing of comfort and peace. Her
brother was deported back to his country and she was absolutely devastated.
It’s super sad. She’s been struggling a lot lately, so keep her in your
prayers. Angelo is still progressing super well and reading his
scriptures!
Well
that’s basically all from this week! The mission has just been flying by. I am
enjoying every minute of it, and I am so grateful for the chance I have to
serve my Savior Jesus Christ - serving Him by serving others.
CuÃdense mis amigos!!
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| Elder Cross (far left) and Elder Bolinder with the Karen Elders |
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