May 15, 2012
Hi Everyone! This week was a
great week. We got transfer information and they told us that Both Elder Pearce
and I are staying together and I will finish out my mission here in Cypress
Creek. It is so crazy that I only have six weeks left. I will just endure to
the end and make the most out of the end part of the mission the Lord has given
me. Elder Pearce and I are both very excited that we are staying together and
we talked a lot last night about all the changes we want to make in the area and
how we want to do things differently this next and last transfer we will have
together. We cooked up a teriyaki chicken meal that a member bought for us
and while Elder Pearce cooked that, I cooked the rice that he taught me how to
make. It was so good. I didn't get a picture of it.
We had two people come to
church: Gaelle and Oliver, who are brother and sister. Gaelle is 15 and Oliver
is 11. He turns 12 June 9th. Gaelle is someone we found when we harvested her
friend's home, but then we ran into her when we were knocking doors a street
down from her friend's house. We began to teach her. Then last week Thursday or
Friday, we took them on a chapel tour with their mom. Their mom's name is
Roseline and she is really nice. She goes to a Haitian Baptist church with her
children. She works Sunday morning though. She said that she wanted to see the
location of the church and know a little bit more information before she let
them come. She saw the building and we did a tour, and she said it would be
fine. Gaelle goes to North East High School, which is the same place that
Elizabeth C goes to, and plus Gaelle is in the ROTC and so is Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is a Lutenent and she is one of the "Big Dogs" as she calls
it. Gaelle is in the beginning level and takes it 4th period, but
Elizabeth helps out with that class, so Elizabeth and Gaelle recognized
each other when they met at church. Elizabeth and Gaelle are becoming
really good friends. Elizabeth is working on helping Gaelle and she even
offered to come to our next appointment. We are really excited. We told Gaelle
about young women's and we told her about the young women's activities
Wednesday night. We are seeing some good progress with her. Oliver is shy and
he seemed a little bit uncomfortable, but he did pretty well. The young men
fellowshipped him and went out of their way to talk to him. They both enjoyed
church. Gaelle was comfortable and she seems like she wants to come back. We
are confident that Oliver will become more comfortable as he gets to know
people in the branch better. Plus, when he gets baptized, he will be able to be
ordained in about two weeks afterwards as a deacon. We are really excited for
the both of them.
We were harvesting farther
north in our area this week by Atlantic Boulevard, which is a more English
speaking area. We made several stops as we went to go up to the area. Elder
Pearce wanted to see how much the pier up there cost and in doing all that, we
passed by a man at the exact right moment who asked if we were Latter-day Saints
and said he wanted us to come by his motel. He was kicked out of his housing,
with a wife and baby and he said he needed the message really bad. Their names
are Travis, Justina, and Serenity. They were staying just barely out of our
area, so we passed them to the other elders in Coconut Creek. Travis called us
multiple times to make sure we were coming. He said, "I am not playing
games. I am in a messed up situation. I want to come closer to Christ through
your message." The next day the other elders texted us and told everyone
that Travis and Justina had a date for baptism. We are really excited. Also we
met someone named Christian, who had drug problems, but he is changing his life
around and he is in Drug rehabilitation now. He was baptized as a baby, but he
says that he has fallen so hard in his life from where he used to be that he
has been thinking about being baptized again. We committed him to mid-June for
baptism, and he accepted. We were about to finish harvesting that area right
before we found him. Satan works hard to put ideas of quitting into one's mind
right before we are about to find someone who needs us. The amazing thing is
that we had an appointment with him yesterday, and we called to confirm, but he
said he would let us know at 1:00 pm. if he could, he didn't call us at that
time. We were biking away from our apartment shortly afterwards to go to the
area we would be for the day and both Elder Pearce and I saw him outside of a
drug rehabilitation center 1/2 mile away from our house on commercial just west
of the inter-coastal. We talked to him and he was glad that we ran into him. We
will try to see him this week.
This transfer we are working
on dropping investigators very quickly if they are not progressing, because it
is time to focus on those who the spirit is testifying to us are ready for the
Gospel. We don't have many investigators right now, but that will change this
week. We passed all our Spanish investigators, which was most of our teaching
pool, but we will find more.
Well, I have to go. I love
you all! Bye! I will write you next week!
Love,
Elder Seamons
Hi President! Thank you so
much for letting Elder Pearce and I be together for the last transfer that I
will spend on the mission. We are so excited and
we will hit the ground running.
We were harvesting in a
neighborhood and we weren't finding anyone that was interested and we had been there
for longer than an hour. We were thinking of quitting, but we decided to try
one more door. We met Christian, who readily accepted us into his home without
argument, who after the blessing told us of his falling into drug addiction and
his recent turn around that he has made in his life to overcome it. He told us
how big of a role prayer has played in his life and how he was baptized as a
baby, but he has been thinking about being baptized again because of how many
mistakes he has made in his life. We testified of the power of the atonement
and we committed him to baptism in the middle of June, which he readily
accepted. We are so thankful that we didn't listen to the adversary as he
attempted to get us to quit right before we finished what we
were sent to do. We are so grateful that
we tried one more door. The spirit will tell you when you have
accomplished the work that you were sent to do by the spirit following your
prayer for guidance. The spirit will never fail you.
We are going to hit
standards this transfer. No matter what. We will baptize this transfer. That is
a promise. We will have success. As we are obedient, we will see direct and
indirect blessings coming from heaven that will be so great that there will not
be enough room to receive them.
I love you President! I will
write you next week!
Love,
Elder Seamons
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