This week was really amazing! We had the most amazing Sacrament meeting for Easter. In the Foyer, there were displays with different items from Jesus' life with different scriptures next to it printed out. It has the crown of thorns, the nails, the sign that said, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews", it had the unleavened bread, different pictures of Christ's ministry, and one of the rooms was decorated to look like the garden tomb with the bed where Jesus laid. There was a very strong spirit. The talks were amazing. Sister I gave a talk on the atonement and how she had been rebellious much of her life and how the atonement had the power to heal her and help her have that change of heart. Sister G sang the song, "His Hands." I cried during the service. I was so happy that our investigators were there for it. We had nine investigators at church: Joe, Derek, Clair, Jason, Marius, Fernand, Jaimie (a new investigator who we met for the first time yesterday at church), Thomas, and Elizabeth. We know that they felt the spirit. Sister Hepler translated for Marius and Fernand and they loved it. For the opening hymn, we sang "Christ the Lord is risen today" #200. They knew the song in French, so they felt very involved. We taught Sunday School about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and everyone got involved and our investigators even answered Jason's questions, which was cool. Jason has been letting the same old problems bother him and he just can't get past them. We probably won't continue to teach him. We will still see him at church because he always comes, and we have never asked him to. We are teaching Maria his wife, and she is progressing really well. We committed her to baptism and she said that she will think about it.
We also saw Elizabeth on Friday. She loved General conference. She watched three sessions of it. She has pages of notes and her favorite quotes from each talk. She had a lot to say about it. She is pretty much a member already. For the talent show a few weeks ago, they young women had a skit called, "The Young Women Pageant of Values" and she performed in the skit and she has relationships with many people in the branch. She also performed a poem for the show as well. She already knows that she wants to be baptized and she has chosen Luis to do it, since he is the one who first introduced her to the missionaries two years ago. We hope that she will be able to get permission from her Mom. We will see what happens. She has another church that she is a part of as well, which is okay because she has a testimony of this one. She does service with them. Her church has land they own in Haiti, so they church is doing a two week trip over to Haiti to do service, such as building a school, going to orphanages, delivering food, etc. I am so happy that she gets to do that. She says that there is a lot of preparation involved. She even went to a five hour Haitian church. She is learning some Creole. Her Creole class starts this week.
After church yesterday, Leanna and her Parents invited us over to Leanna's house for Easter Dinner. They are the teachers of the Daily Dose English class for the branch. They invited everyone from the class to the dinner. Only Marius and Fernand were able to make it. We took a picture with them. Leanna has photography backdrops and lights, so she took the picture with my camera and used her equipment for her job. The food was really good and the Rosato's brought a whole bunch of leftovers to our apartment after our appointments were done. Marius and Fernand are planning on coming over to the English class on Wednesday.
We are excited about the English class. So far, the people who have gone to the class are Sister T, Sister C, Sister G, Marius, and Maria. We have invited Berta, Yvonette, Rose, and Joseline (Sister G's friend). We have a ton of other people to invited, so we are hoping we can get a good turn out this Wednesday. It is a great service that the church can do to get people comfortable with the church and see the church building. We hope that we can even get enough people where we have to make two or more classes. We definitely have enough people we know that we could do that.
And by the way, Elder Pearce has a half sister from his dad that lives in Lauderhill. She is not a member of the church. We got permission to see her. She is really interested in learning the missionary lessons and she is very engaged. Her name is A. She is really nice. Elder Pearce's mom has a picture with her, him, and her daughter L. L is 4 years old and she is really cute. It took us an hour and 30 minutes or so to bike there. We are excited were that will go. Bye! I love you!
Well,
I have run out of time. Thank you for all that you do. I love you all very much! Take care!
Love,
Elder Seamons
Hi President! We had an amazing week. We got many people to church and we have many people that are prepared to receive a date now. We are going to be "Challenging and Testifying" missionaries. We are getting along great as a companionship and we both feel that what has happened with everything about transfers has been very inspired and we are very excited to make the most out of the remainder of the time that we will both spend together. We are going to get the standards of excellence this week. We know that it is expected of us and God will provide a way so that we can accomplish the things which he has commanded. Bye President! We love you!
Love,
Elder Seamons
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