Hello Family and Friends!
This week went
well. As you know we as a mission had the goal for 300 souls that entered
the waters of baptism in January. Unfortunately we did not reach our goal
as we had some disobedience in our mission, but nonetheless the Lord blessed us
for those who were obedient. We had 255 children of our Heavenly Father
enter the waters of baptisms in January! This is a mission record!
It was sad, but amazing news all at the same time. Also our zone broke
our previous record so that was exciting!
We had zone conference
this week and our mission President talked a lot about faith and seeing
yourself how God sees you. In Doctrine and Covenants Section 76:94 it
talks about how when we stand before God we will see ourselves how he sees us,
but we can start to do that now by asking, studying our patriarchal blessings,
and studying the scriptures.
In the zone conference
many people talked about the many miracles they saw in January. This
really is the Lords work and He is a God of miracles!
Right now we are teaching
a young women named Franchesca. She is 17 years old and is a reference of
a member. She always comes to church and really is progressing. She
has a lot of energy and excitement about her. We have seen a great change
in her and are working with her to be baptized hopefully this month!
Dioni got confirmed
this week, which was very exciting. He was even at church on time, which
is a miracle for Dominicans! And for the first time he showed up at
church in a white shirt and tie. Many people struggle to have a white
shirt and tie, so I think that made him feel good that he could dress up for Sunday!
Funny thing for the
week was I tried to teach one of our investigators English. The simple
phrase: How are you? I taught him to respond good, thank you. When
I asked him “How are you?” he replied Gracias. He did this multiple
times. It was really funny because he is not even saying thank you in English
and it just doesn’t make sense. We all got a kick out of it.
Things are going well
here in the Dominican Republic. It is slowly getting hotter and hotter,
but I still can sleep without a fan! Yay!
Love you all and have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Steed
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