The week started pretty slowly. We were trying to reach out to people, and we were doing more knocking, to achieve the goal of 30 testifying contacts, but nothing really was happening. That is until Thursday. We had district council a day early and we were told that over the weekend we would be competing against the Lexington North Zone (the two zones cover a half of the city of Lexington and a bunch of boonies until the mission border) to see who could find the most "New people being taught". My companion decided to take this challenge and go crazy. We found 3 people Thursday night, and it was awesome.
The next day (Friday) we had an exchange. I stayed in my area with Elder Lundgreen where we found a few more people who are the family of someone else we've been trying to get in contact with. We also taught Albert the word of wisdom, but it didn't seem to surprise him much, I am wondering if he understood it super well honestly.
On Saturday we went crazy, we were stopping by people at the right times, finding strangers on the streets, making the right calls. It was great! We even got a call back during our weekly soccer night from a guy we've never met, and he said he wanted to meet!
Sunday continued the trend. We went to visit someone from Haiti, he wasn't home, but his roommate invited us in, and we taught him instead! He didn't speak French though... the whole time he was speaking Haitian Creole. Now yes Haitian used to be French, but it is not the same language anymore. It has been heavily simplified and changed to a point where we could communicate but I was really confused for the majority. Haitians seemed to have looked at the French they were speaking and say, "nah this is too hard, the writing makes no sense, were going to fix it". And to a certain extent that's exactly what they did, it's spelled completely phonetic, and the grammar is much simpler. Instead of conjugating for different subjects (I am, you are, she is) it's all the same (something like I is, you is, we is). But for someone who speaks the old way it is very confusing to have a conversation ha-ha. We successfully taught about Joseph Smith and left a pamphlet but we chances are we won't make it too far with him ha-ha.
In total we made about 12 new friends in our missionary app last weekend, consisting of family members of people being taught, people we've been trying to meet with already, and completely new people. It was incredible and a complete blessing and I'm so grateful for it. I can't wait to finish out these last couple weeks of the transfer and I am hoping to be able to see these new people progress with us!!
I love you all and I encourage you all to keep the faith, have patience and the lord will send his blessings when you show him you are willing and able to follow through in his timing. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and know that I am praying for you all!
Elder Baird.
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