Well this week was insanely long. I have these gnarly bags under
my eyes. It's awesome. I've actually heard that it's blood pooling
under your eyes that does that. Fun Fact.
Anywho, here is a picture from Justin B's (from
Rotterdam, NY!!!!) baptism. It was perfect, it went off without a
hitch. He bore his testimony at the end too. AMAZING! This guy is so
elect it blows my mind. He'll be ordained to the office of priest next Sunday.
So you all (it's weird I've gotten into this habit of saying y'all... I don't really know where that came from) are caught up to this last week Tuesday I think, so I'll start on Wednesday.
Wednesday: We went on splits! Our ward is catching the wave of
missionary work (thanks Elder Nelson) so we're pretty pumped about that.
Then we did a lot of tracting, had some accounting phone calls with
President (always FUN!) got some baptismal suits for the Tongans and
then called it a day.
Thursday: We went tracting and visiting formers a lot! Had a very
good lesson with the PMLA family I've talked about. They say we're the
winning pair, so we want to get them active and baptized before I
leave. It was a good lesson, but the wife still struggles with the
scriptures because she's had no religious background prior to this.
Starting from the ground up is new for me but it's a good experience.
Then we went on splits with a recent convert. Also another good time.
Friday: He had a lesson with Justin B., and he got his
interview. Easily the quickest interview I've ever seen. He and the
missionary left, and were back within two minutes easy. Awesome. Then
we went over some specifics for his baptism and who was going to baptize
him( the Bishop's son did that. He just returned from his
mission 6 months ago... he's staying in the water haha!) what he needed
to wear etc. Good visit. Then we went and typed up his program and
went out Waianae side. The Tongan ward out there had a papi (Tongan for
baptism) for a family of 5 and another guy. 6 person papi + Tongan feast
afterward = pretty gnarly.
Saturday: We took Matt M. out to a lesson with a potential
investigator. She wasn't super receptive so that was a bummer, but
that's missionary work huh? Then we had a lesson with a different part
member family, and committed the husband to come back to church, so it
was a good visit. Then we had some investigators drop us, went tracting
and set up for the baptism. That went awesome.
Sunday: Justin was confirmed, we taught Elder's Quorum, and it
must've gone well cause we got some referrals and a couple offers to go
on splits out of it. Always worth it. Other than that it was a regular
day and then we had to do numbers. Yay. We didn't get to bed until
11pm, but that was because of some other problems with that we've been trying to settle. Hopefully we'll get everything
smoothed out today. We'll see!
Welp that about rounds out my week here. Hope you all enjoy the pics and have a great rest of your week!
Ofa Lahi Atu,
Elder Brooksby
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