Dear Family,
Pretty crazy week, as always! We have been teaching Mozzie to try and prepare her for baptism this coming Friday! There are a lot of distractions, though, so we are getting trouble to sit down with her and teach her the lessons.
Funny story: the night we were to teach her the Word of Wisdom, we visiting a member named Sister Kunjal. While there, she gave us each a piece of cake. I thought it was very tender and moist and started downing it, but as soon as Sister Kunjal turned her back Sister Tongi waved her arms and whispered: "This has alcohol in it!" Oh. Awkward. We secretly snuck it into the trash after that. I'm not sure if it was a good thing that Mozzie turned out not to be home that night, so we could not teach her the WoW :) Trinidadians make this cake, called blackcake, around Christmastime, and don't seem to worry about the word of wisdom when they do.
Also had a cool experience at Book of Mormon class. The elders had an investigator come, so we just read the Introduction for class. He did not understand the need for another book of scripture: classic 2 Nephi 29:3. He was being pretty stubborn about it, but then we shared Ezekiel 37:15-17 and 2 Nephi 3:12 and bore testimony and his heart really softened. I don't think he was fully convinced but he did not argue anymore and he was interested in reading it. We asked him, "What if the book was true?" He said, "Then it needs to go into the whole world." I was reminded of Brother Leal and how he wanted to nail the Book of Mormon on every lamppost in the world :D
Sister Tongi is going home next week and she is not excited :) It's amazing how missions can change you. You love home and miss your family but at the same time you put so much time and effort and love into the people you don't want to leave ever. Trinidad is my home. These people are my family. I will miss them a lot when the time comes.
Have a great week!
Love, Sister Aida Tibbitts
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