March 26, 2018
Hey, Everyone! :)
Sorry for the really brief email last week that provided you with very little information about how my week went! Hopefully I will be able to remember what happened haha.
Well, so start out, last week on Monday, we had our zone activity for the transfer! It was pretty fun to be able to gather with the other missionaries in my zone before finishing up the transfer. What did we do for the activity? Well, we made reservations for a guided tour of a Hindu temple here in Flushing! It was very very interesting! I learned a lot about the Hindi religion that I did not know before, so it was pretty neat :)
A couple weeks ago Elder Rice and I found an investigator named Ken. He used to be Hindu, but has recently taken a liking of Christianity! When we knocked into him, he was super down to meet with us and promised to come to church the following Sunday! And guess what! He did! And not only that, but he came the next Sunday as well! However, Ken had to leave from church an hour early, so we decided to have a quick lesson with him before he had to go. At the end of the lesson, we invited him to be baptized and he did not hesitate to say yes! So, Ken is not progressing toward baptism and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost! We are pretty excited for him!
Another investigator we have been working with over the past transfer is James. He is the cousin of one of our less-active members and really likes the church. However, James is not the best with keeping commitments, so we have been contemplating dropping him. We have trying helping him in just about every way imaginable, but he really just doesn’t show the intent to change. However, last week James did show up at church on his own as well as yesterday! So that was pretty cool. Although, there was just one little thing that made it a little interesting... James brought vodka with him and was beyond drunk throughout all of church. It was an interesting experience helping him trough each hour of church. I am just glad he decided to come!
Last Saturday, Nancy was baptized!!!!!!! I am so proud of her for finally making the decision to be baptized! Nancy is the friend of Sister Ibanez here in the branch and was referred to the missionaries by her. Nancy has been taught for a good while and has finally been baptized and confirmed! The baptismal service was beautiful! She asked me to play a musical number for her while was stressful to put together in the one day I had hahaha but it turned out alright. The most stressful part was the day of the baptism, though! We went to turn on the baptismal font, and all the hot water in the church building was shut off!!!! So, we grabbed the largest pots we could find and started hastily boiling water on the kitchen stoves! Hahahaha! It was an adventure for sure! Eventually, the Korean Elders helped us find the water heaters for the building and we were able to fix them just in time to fill up the rest of the font with warm water. Definitely never going to forget that day!
Well, last week was transfers! Elder Rice and I stayed together and we got another companion! His name is Elder Schroader. He has been on his mission for 3 months now and just finished being trained over in Staten Island. It is weird being in a trio again :) it can be fun, though!
That’s about it for me this week! I love you all! I can’t wait to hear all about your thoughts on General Conference this weekend!!!!!! Have and amazing Easter!
Love ya!
Elder Snell
P.S. Jacob and the Duapa’s Mom were baptized and confirmed a couple weeks ago!!!!!!!!!!! SO AMAZING!!! GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!!! :) :) :)
- Mikee, Jacob, and Happy!
- Hindu temple!
- Trio bed! Hahahaha
- District photo
- Trio
- Snow storm
- Baptismal water hahaha
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