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| New Couch to match the other one |
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| Delicious Lobster feast |
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| This guy is huge |
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| Our water bottles |
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| A door bell that I thought was cool |
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| Elder Mulitalos first Lobsters to eat |
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| Family we are teaching Amy, Brooke, Bristole,& Brady |
Week 23
Monday March 25th 2019
Hello everyone , I hope all is well, this past week went pretty well. Monday was pretty good it was our P-day so we didn't do much but for dinner we finally had our Lobster dinner. Oh boy was it delicious!. Turns out Elder Mulitalo has never had lobster so he really enjoyed it. As our P-day ended we had a lesson with Rodrigo and Warley. Rodrigo is so close to baptism and we can't wait for that. We invited them to pray about the day that they feel is best for them. He wants it to be this next month in April! It sure is going to be an exciting time.
Tuesday studies went really well, I started by writing my testimony in Brother Polley’s journal, and it really made me ponder on what to write. I wanted it to make an impact to help them grow in their faith. Later on we went downtown to visit Art and Jeff a couple potentials we hope to start teaching. When we got there, they had company coming over so it wasn't the best time. On the bright side they did say we can come back another day for a lesson! After dinner we left for Brother Polley’s home so he could help us with a service project that needed a truck. While we got there we ended up doing splits. I was with Brother Polley and Elder Mulitalo was with President Bilodeou doing flooring in the Polley’s home. Going on splits was a strange thing but it was really fun! We had to get two couches for Amy and her kids, and it was an adventure. After we got the couches and started to drive to Amy's, one almost fell out! Luckily we got it fixed and made it safely. While we got there she gave us her old couch, apparently missionaries have been wanting it for a while, because it matches the couch we already have at the apartment. It was an adventure trying to get the couch up the stairs, but we did it!
Wednesday was a shorter day, Elder Mulitalo was sick, so we stayed home all day. While at the apartment building we just watched church movies all day. We had to go off island that night. We left to be early but we missed the ferry, so we had to wait for the next one. As we got back to the mainland we got picked up by the Brewster English Elders then made the drive to their apartment. To end the night we socialized then went to bed for an early morning.
Thursday was an early morning because we had to be at West Bridgewater for interviews. We had to be there at 10 and it's a 2 hour drive without traffic. As we got there we were a little early so we helped set up for President Mavromatis. At 10 he still wasn't there, then the Zone leaders said it was changed to 11 and no longer 10. For that hour we all did our personal studies. I was the first one for interviews and it went really well, I suggested that Martha's Vineyard should be a Sisters area. They could do more work in the winter and be more effective. He said he would pray about it. We ended up doing a District Meeting with President Mavromatis and we got some crazy news for our District. They are taking a set of Elders out of Brewster and we are now in charge of two areas! Now we help both the Martha's Vineyard Branch and the Cape Cod Branch. We only go to Cape Cod once a week to help them. It's going to be a good change to help them as well, more work to be done. We all then went out for a quick lunch then we started out splits. I was with Elder Lemon for the day. We did a lot of walking and contacting a couple potentials of Theresa but it was good to get to know him even more! We then came home and had a late dinner of chicken, pork and rice.
Friday we were still in Brewster so we could be at District Council with the Zone Leaders. They taught a great lesson on the How, the What and the Why of how to begin teaching. It helps us understand why they want to meet with us and how we can best help them grow. We soon made our journey back home, it was later then usual so we did our personal studies and had dinner that the Oliveiras brought over for us, we ended the night by watching a couple more church history videos.
Saturday was pretty busy. It was a later start to the day but we still got a lot done. After studies President Bilodeou picked us up for a meeting with the branch presidency. We were early so he took us out for lunch at A1 a local café and it was pretty good. After that we went to visit Brother Powell so we could have our meeting. It went really well,we discussed our friends that we are teaching and who to look out for. We talked about a man who was taught before but we had to red dot him because he didn't want anything to do with the missionaries. He called us and apologized and he said he wants to retake the lessons, from that I know he witnessed how the gospel lessons have helped him! After our meeting we did service at Brother Polley’s to help deep clean the yard, there were so many leaves around the sides, but we got a lot done. They then had us over for a late dinner. We had a good time and we talked about the importance of prayer, it went really well and Sister Polleys bore an awesome testimony on prayer.
Sunday is always the best, I am able to take and help bless the Sacrament. This time as we starting to help the bread was already in pieces so it really confuses us but sacrament still was peaceful. For our talks we had a High Council member from the Stake come and visit us. He spoke on connecting with God and it was awesome it helped me to grow closer. We then had Elders Quorum and Brother Powell spoke on following the spirit and how it saved his life. On his day off he was prompted to go do a couple sessions in the Temple and while he was there his apartment burned down. He was so thankful for the Gospel and being able to have the gift of the Holy Ghost. That night we went over to the Brown’s home for dinner. The kids are always crazy but its still really fun our message was on praying to know if the Book of Mormon is true!
Moroni 10:3-5
"3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."
This is probably the most shared scripture by any missionary. It is an invitation and a promise. As you take the time to act on Faith and read The Book of Mormon. PRAY about it, so you can know for yourself if this Book is true. I KNOW without a doubt it is Thee most true and correct book there ever is, I have prayed about it more then once so I can continue to know by the spirit that it is true. So please don't take my word for it, pray about it for yourself so you can have a personal testimony in this wonderful book that truly does testify of its truth, I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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