Dear Family,
Well….
I am staying here for another 6 weeks with Sister Watkins. Crazy
huh? This will be my 5thtransfer here. We are excited. So much to still do
here. Obviously we were meant to be companions, ever since that 4th birthday
party.
This
was a good week. A little slower, we’ve weeded out most of our
investigators so we are going back to the finding stages. Karin was
baptized on Saturday. I always love the days leading up to a baptism
because they are really big faith builders. There is always a trial
before a baptism and the investigator and the missionaries need to have lots of
faith to overcome it. Karin interview went well and everything was
great until a few hours before the baptism, and she said she wanted to postpone
it. After lots of prayers and faith, she was feeling confident
again. Her baptism was amazing. The spirit was so strong
and we had 42 people there! One of the best baptisms I’ve been too. After
she shared her testimony with everyone; it was a really special night.
Our
new member Macken passed the sacrament on Sunday. He did so
well. He is progressing quickly and the branch is doing a great job
of helping him. He is excited to have his first family home evening
this week and teach his family the gospel.
Either
this weekend or next weekend the little boys we are teaching are going to be
baptized. They are so excited. The older one is 14 and
the younger one is 10. They’ve already read like 10 chapters in the
book of Mormon. They are the nephews of one of the families in our
branch. Their parents are less active but the uncle is really taking
them under his wing and has committed to help them stay
active. Hopefully their parents will follow soon. They
are the cousin of the other little boy we baptized here. So he’s
being just a good little missionary to them and showing them how to be reverent
in church. It’s so cute.
After
the boys, we don’t have that many progressing investigators so we are going on
a hunt for middle aged men that can be leaders! Haha but really we
need some more priesthood here. So that’s our new
direction. Also there are a lot of Chinese people here randomly;
There’s a Taiwanese embassy. Sister Watkins has a friend serving in
Asia and she baptizes like 2 people every week. So we are going to
try to contact some Asians. We are thinking about starting an
English class and trying to find some Asians and Dominicans. We will see what
happens with that!
Well.
that’s about it for this week. We are looking forward to another 6
weeks here! Which I don’t know now what will happen for my last 4
weeks if I will stay here or go back to Puerto Rico. So I guess we will just
see when we get there. But it sounds like everyone is doing
well. Lots of bike riding and family field
trips! Jealous!!
Shout out to Dad! Happy Father’s
Day!
Love to All
Sister Cole
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