So, hello!

On Tuesday, we went to Zura’s again. She came to church that Sunday, which was really awesome. We talked with her about the allegory of the olive tree. We didn’t really know what we were wanting to go with, but we decided to discuss that a little bit and we also talked about sharing the gospel and how the Lord works with us. So we watched the video with her and discussed how the servants at the end were sent out to labor among the Lord of the vineyard. It was really cool. Zura loves the church, she loves God and she loves the Book of Mormon. We are hoping to try and get her baptized, but she has had some hiccups in the past, but we are hoping to see where we can go from here.

On Wednesday, we went by to see Alenge again. We talked about the power of prayer, because the time before he mentioned kind of in passing that he didn’t really know how to pray so we were like, “Let's discuss that.” So we talked about prayer and the importance of that. Then we went to Alice again. We taught their family about the Book of Mormon. We are really trying to help them understand what it is and where it comes from. That was a really good conversation. We read from the introduction and really helped them to understand. Which was really awesome!

On Friday, we went to see Alenge again, because we are trying to meet him more often. Unfortunately, he was not home. As we were waiting around to see what might happen, we saw three women coming toward us and we knew all three of them. One of them was Alenge’s wife, Pelishika, the wife of Mtambala and the wife of another man who is getting ready to be baptized. Apparently, they are all friends and they do laundry together. So they were coming back with a big load of laundry and we taught them. They said that Alenge was at a funeral. There have been a lot of funerals recently. We keep seeing them. We decided to talk about the spirit world. So, we had a good conversation about the spirit world and how there is really a place prepared for those people who have passed on and are wanting to know more about the gospel who didn’t get the opportunity in their life. 

After that, we heard from a little girl that was running around and she was like, “Come visit my family and tell them about the gospel.” We were like, “Okay!” So we ran up there and there was a man named, Christian who was the only person in the house that wanted to sit down with us. Everyone else was like, “Nah!” and left, but Christian was was like, “yeah, we’ll talk.” So we sat down with Christian and he was really cool. We were talking about the Book of Mormon and he seemed really excited. He wanted to read it and come to church. Sadly, he didn’t make it this week, but we are really hoping he will come another time.

On Saturday, we got a referral for a man named Shelove. He is from Haiti and apparently he is interested in hearing the gospel. So we gave him an introduction to the gospel. We talked about God and the importance of talking with him and we gave him a pamphlet. Hopefully, he is interested. He seemed a bit iffy about it, we are hoping that he can take it far.

On Sunday, we went back to Pelishika’s house and finally met her husband, Mtambala. Mtambala is the only guy we have on baptismal date yet.  He is really awesome, but he is super busy. It is really hard to even sit down with him and even harder to get him to church. He hasn’t ever made it to church yet and so he is not able to be baptized, but we have high hopes for him! He was just loving everything that we were telling him. We were talking about service in Mosiah 2. He is just really awesome and I really enjoyed talking with him. I am really, really hoping that he is able to get baptized. 

In this ward they want to do one big baptismal day each month, on the second Sunday of the month. He probably won't be ready by August, but we are hoping that he will be ready by September. We are really trying to work for that. We are excited to see it happen.

I really liked how on Friday, we didn’t know what to do. So we just watched and waited and the women showed up. Sometimes, God just says, “Wait, I have something prepared for you.” We really saw that on that day. It was a testimony to me of God’s timing. He has miracles in store and he has things prepared for us.

I hope that everyone has a great week! I love you all! Sometimes we have to wait for the Lord’s timing. His timing is perfect!

Elder Baird