Que onda!? What’s gooood!?
Quick shout out to the boys back home for getting their mission calls! My boy Mali is going to Orlando Florida speaking English, Truman is going to Belgium/Netherlands speaking Spanish and Dutch, AK is going to Chile speaking Spanish, and my boy Ski going to Lisbon Portugal speaking Portuguese!!
This week went really good, we had tons of success and saw a bunch of more miracles! We are really starting to see everything come together here in Palau; there is no doubt in my mind that there are hundreds of people here just waiting to accept the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and be baptized.
This week we set 2 more baptism dates, so we have 4 baptism dates at the moment, and we are planning on setting more dates this week! Right now, we have Celeste and Melisa set on date for this Saturday and we have Breseida and Alberto (from Barroteron) on date for the upcoming Saturday the 28th.
Melisa and Celeste are super ready to be baptized; it has been amazing to watch them both progress. It has been so cool to see the love that they have developed for the Book of Mormon over these past two weeks! They are both 20-year-old college students, and they have both been bringing all of their pamphlets and Books of Mormon to school each day to share with all of their friends!
The family we have been teaching in Barroteron has been doing really well. We set a baptism date with Breseida (a 20-year-old college student) and her brother Alberto (a 15-year-old boy). They both have been really excited about all of the lessons and we are excited to teach them again this week. We are also planning on setting a date with their sister Linda (who is 18) and also their Mom!
The members in Barroteron have been helping a lot, we received a couple of references this past week and one sister told us that she has "lots of friends that want to be baptized and she is going to set up a appointments for us". There is honestly nothing more efficient then working with members! One of the references we got was a young mother that recently lost her baby. We went and talked with her and she really opened up and told us everything as she cried... It was amazing to see the light in her eyes as we explained part of the plan of salvation as we bore our testimonies!
We had this lady call us on Tuesday and she said she was waiting for us by the church. We went and talked to her and it turns out she was an old investigator that lives in Esperanzas which is like 30 min north of Palau. She stated that her boyfriend gave her a diamond ring but they broke up and she wanted to donate it to the church. We aren't allowed to take stuff like that hahah so we told her she could come on Sunday and give it to the Branch President! Then as we continued talking with her…she said that she wanted to be baptized last December in the river, however, the missionaries said the water was too cold and they were also giving her a hard time because she said she doesn’t want to take a picture when she gets baptized. So, I explained to her that we could have a small baptism for her in the river just with us and the Branch President, oh and I said we wouldn’t take any pictures! So, if everything goes good we should be able to baptize her within the next week or two! She is a really great lady, she had been having trouble sleeping in her house so she asked me to come bless her house. So, Wednesday morning on the way to Barroteron we stopped by and visited her and then blessed her house!
Today was a pretty chill p-day we just kind of hung out with Elders Sabey and Smith and then ate some wayyy good chicken #protein.
Hope everyone is doing good back home!
Much love,
Elder Ceb
1. Love being with my boy Elder Vaquero again
2. We helped Moraima organize some of her students' work because she is a teacher.. and then we ate some tacos!
3. Yes! Getting so dark!
4. I'm pretty sure this pic is a tradition now here in Palau!
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