Many prayers have been answered in regard to President Hale. He had the surgery to take out his tumor on Thursday. It was not embedded in the spine but was offset, and they were able to get all of it. They will find out in the next few days if it is malignant or benign. He went to his brother’s house to recover. The doctor expects he will be ready to go back in 2 weeks instead of 3. Sister Hale is heading back to Florida tomorrow. Everyone is happy with his progress.
April 10, 2011
Hi Everyone! We had a very good week this week! We were having a super slow week where finding efforts were concerned in the beginning of the week, but the last three days we have found 20 or more people who want to hear the message we share, many of which we have already scheduled appointments with. Elder Hall and Elder Anderson are zone leaders and Elder Chandler is the district leader for our district. The zone had an awesome week. Elder Anderson was telling us about how he found an investigator who already has a super powerful testimony that the Gospel is true and she loved the Book of Mormon. The YSA elders found two super awesome investigators who already had their own set of scriptures and have a testimony and have marked their scriptures, gone to church, and prayed about everything that we teach. They went to church in Washington state already. They are going to be baptized really soon.
We also met this Haitian girl the other day that was super excited that we spoke Creole. Most Haitians are super excited about that. We stopped by the house again, and she introduced us to her sisters and she said that we were her friends. All three of them were super excited and were giving us drinks, a place to sit, and talking to us about Haitian culture. There were some guys in the room, but they didn't really seem as interested. They were probably most interested because we were young white guys who spoke Creole. They did understand the message we taught them though, and we thought that they were engaged in the lesson too, not just in us, which was a good thing. One of the guys there invited us to their Haitian Baptist church, which we accepted on the condition of them coming to our church. So we have that all planned out. Plus they are going to talk to the pastor of that church and ask if we can go in front of all the youth in the congregation for a youth activity and teach our message to them. That would be so awesome! Plus Julie, one of the people there said that she would make Haitian food for us when we came over again, which we were excited about, because it has been a while since we have gotten a good Haitian meal. Well, there were elders in Miami who were allowed to stand up and give a presentation in front of the church in a Corps de Christ church. So we will see how that goes. There were elders in Miami who were allowed to stand up and give a presentation in front of the church in a Corps de Christ church. So we will see how that goes. In the Corps de Christ church, the elders were telling everyone about the Joseph Smith story and the pastor had a look of Horror on his face and seemed to regret letting them speak. The congregation was very interested and even one of the assistant pastors had a question, but the head pastor just told the missionaries that the congregation could ask him instead.
Today after we write our e-mails, we will do companionship study and we are going to buy groceries and go over to Fort Lauderdale South's apartment to play Volley Ball with them. We cook a lot more meals for ourselves here than we did in Coconut Creek. Most of the Haitian members in the ward are in Elder Anderson and Elder Hall's area. In Coconut Creek there are a lot more Haitian members.
Peterson has been taught everything that he needs to know and he really wants to be baptized. The only problem is that Crystella (Peterson's mom) says that he has been a bad boy and that he isn't ready to be baptized. But she has been giving us dumb reasons for it, and she is expecting him to be perfect. Crystella, when Laudia and Morelson were about to get baptized, told them that if they partook of the sacrament unworthily, they would choke on it and die. She says she has seen three people in her old Haitian Pentecostal church have that happen to them. We are kind of frustrated with her. Hopefully we can help her realize that he is ready. We are going to start sitting down with her more often and make sure she understands baptism better. We did that once or twice, but it will probably take more time than that. She has come to church every Sunday for the past four months though. And she came to the investigator/new member class on Wednesday which teaches people basic gospel principles. We were happy about that.
Peterson's Mom has not been baptized yet. She reads out of the Gospel Principles Manual at home and she has read through the entire book of Mormon. At one point, she was the most likely to get baptized. She was apathetic at first and didn't want to come to church, but then she had a dream where god told her to start going to church again and pursue this, so she changed her mind and hasn't missed a day of coming to the church with her kids since. But she has a weird personality and changes her mind a lot. We were lucky that Laudia and Morelson got baptized.
Well, I have to go. Bye Everyone! I love you!
Love,
Elder Seamons
P.S. Also, I figured out that one of the people that I taught with Elder Rybin named Victor Huberson got baptized. It is so cool that six people that I taught with Elder Rybin got baptized after I left. I realize that so many things have happened since then. What we did together paved the way for much success where he is. I am very happy about that.
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