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| East Chop Light House with Rod and Elder Halsell |
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| Exchange with Elder Halsell |
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| Sending Package to home |
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| The small ladder to get the smoke detector |
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| East Chop House Light House |
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| East Chop House Light House |
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| Exchanges with Elder Halsell |
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| At a Lake |
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| At a Lake with Elder Mulitalo |
Week 26 4-15-9
It sure has been a week full of rain, sadly, not to much teaching got done but we are still serving the Lord! Monday’s these past few weeks have been pretty slow because of the rain and snow. We relaxed at home and did some cleaning of the house, as Monday was just a slow day in general.
Tuesday was pretty good, we got in contact with the Cape Cod branch to go over tomorrow and meet with a couple less active members! We also had to go to Edgertown to pick up my meds, and as we walked out the bus was right there, we were in perfect time to hop on! When we arrived home we called a few friends to see how they were doing, and hoped to set up appointments for lessons. We didn’t have much luck but we left messages and hoped to hear back from them soon.
Wednesday, as we were getting ready for the day, we got a text from Brother Sparta and said he had to work later that day, so that canceled our plans for going over to Cape Cod. Around that same time we would be leaving on the ferry (if we did go over) we got a call from Brother Powell asking for some help doing some service. He picked us up and we went back to his house to move some big and heavy glass windows. We put them in the back of his truck then we went off to the town dump. He then took us out for a treat at A7. On the way back home we stopped by a pond that was owned by one of his old relatives in the 1900's (I could be wrong on the date). That morning both of us got our haircuts for the transfers. Elder Mulitalo cut my hair, because I’m not skilled enough to do it myself, at least not yet. That night we decided to make some spaghetti and I spilled some sauce on my leg. OOPS!
Thursday, we had a good morning, I was able to fix the extra long jump rope to be more my size. Now I can use it in my morning workouts! Later that day, we went to go drop off my package to send home at the post office. We waiting 15 minutes for the bus before we realized it was lunch break for them, after 5 minutes of walking it ended up passing us. I used my bag to help hold my package so I could use my hands to look at messages we got and respond to our friends with uplifting thoughts. As we arrived home we prepared our lesson for District Council for tomorrow. Our lesson focus was on the power of the spirit in conversion. Each one of us should continue to feel the spirit so we can continue to be more converted and come closer to Christ. Another way as missionaries we feel the spirit is having a clean home. I decided to clean out & dejunk the closets. With some rules we chose to follow, we are getting rid of 3 bags of toys and games so we can be more missionary focused! In our “zion closet” there was around 10 photos we put up around our home. Now I can feel the spirit even more!
Friday, we were going off Island to be at District Council. As we were preparing for the day, we didn’t leave in time for the ferry at 9:30. So we had to wait for the 10:45am one around 10:15am our smoke alarm went off! But it was only one of them, turns out, something was wrong with it. We had to go find a ladder but we grabbed the shortest one, and it was like 20ft long. We changed the battery and it was still acting weird, so we let President Bilodeou’s secretary know. We then made our trip to the mainland. We had an awesome lesson on the spirit in conversion! After our lesson we headed back to the ferry, but we started our exchanges so I was going back with Elder Halsell. We were able to hop on the freight ferry, one made to take over bigger cars and trucks. It was pretty fun. As we got back we came straight to our apartment. We were hungry so we decided to have a quick lunch. While eating president Bilodeou came over to check out the smoke alarm and even he was confused so he had to remove it. After he left, we left to Oak Bluffs for contact attempts and visit with friends in the area. We first stopped by Melissa and the Benoit family, and we talked to them for a while to get to know them a little more. We were able to set up an appointment to come back and have lesson with all of them, we cant wait! After them we went to visit Rod, he has been really busy lately so it was awesome to sit down and have a lesson with him. We were expecting to just come in and read from the Book of Mormon with him, but we ended up starting into the Plan of Happiness, Gods plan for us. He truly did open up even more and he had lots of questions and expressed his concerns. We were really happy we were there at the right time to help him. He was able to take us home but he first took us to see the East Chop Lighthouse.
Saturday, we had an early appointment at 9am with Rodrigo and Warley. Even when we got there the kids were still waking up. Elder Halsell our district leader was able to interview Rodrigo for his baptism and he passed! We are so happy for him and now we start getting all the details ready! After his interview we talked about the importance of reading from the Book of Mormon and the spiritual insight we can get from it. With how bad it was raining Warley was able to take us to the ferry so we could avoid the rain and stay dry. On the way back we did an evaluation of our exchange, one thing he loves about me is how personable I am and how I can relate to anyone. It is an amazing habit to have in life and especially a missionary. When we got to Woods Hole we exchanged back and Elder Mulitalo and I hopped back on the ferry to make it back to our place. For me it was an hour and thirty minutes just on the ferry. Skip forward a few hours we made our way to the Polley’s for dinner, they didn’t have it ready so we went with brother Polley’s to get some “Wolfs Den Pizza" for dinner. They have a pizza that tastes like a Big Mac from McDonald's and it was pretty good! While waiting for the order we were able to talk with a friends of his and he had a few good questions. As we arrived back at the Polley’s home, we were able to do a real lesson. Audrey had a couple of friends over and one was interested in what we believe. We gave her a Book of Mormon and she is excited to start reading from it. She wasn’t really religious, so we talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and shared from all the lessons. She had so many awesome questions and we helped answer her questions the best we could. Both Brother and Sister Polley’s shared some amazing experiences and they did awesome member missionary work.
Sunday is always the best day of the week. It’s the day we are able to partake of the Sacrament in remembrance of Jesus Christ and our Baptismal Covenants. In preparation for Easter and Christ’s resurrection this upcoming Sunday we had two wonderful talks to help us ponder throughout the week. The first was on the atonement and the second on repentance. In Elders Quorum our lesson was on trusting in Gods timing. He will bless you when it will mean the most. We are as matches, the flame is small but it can grown to be mighty and powerful. Just as we should always continue to grow trust in him.
2nd Nephi 2:6-8
"6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.
7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.
8 Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise."
Not only did Jesus Christ die for our sins, he also suffered the pains and afflictions for each and every one of us. He is just full of love for God and all of us being his spiritual brothers and sisters. If he had to die on the cross for just one person just so they could be saved, he would, that's how much love he has for us. He gave up everything so that all of us would be able to return to live him and our Heavenly father again.
I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen
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