26 October 2015

Dear Family,

It's been a pretty crazy week. Sister Leishman got pretty sick on Tuesday and we had to stay in for a couple days, but she is doing better now. Everyone says she has "the virus" that has been going around. Other than that it was a pretty good week. We met with a couple new investigators: Steve has met with missionaries before and even come to church, but something happened and he was never baptized; he is very open to the gospel though and wants to read the Book of Mormon. Shane and Samantha are a married couple who are in an area where we already have a lot of investigators. Samantha didn't say a lot in our lesson, but Shane asked a lot of questions about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. He's interested in learning about other religions, though he's not sure he would say that there is "one true church" as yet :) Sunday, our investigator Vijay did not come to church (possibly he slept away), but Richard, who is the boyfriend of a member, did come unexpectedly. The ward was having the Primary Program, and so his girlfriend's daughter convinced him to skip work and come listen to her speak instead. We were very happy to see him there, and he stayed for two hours. Hopefully this will become a more common thing :D

We took one of our recent converts, Anne, out with us to go visiting teaching the other night. She shared a really good visiting teaching message with the two sisters, and got into a conversation with one member's mother. As we were driving home, she was telling us that if that woman could just have fellowshippers her age, she could be brought into the church. Anne had a breakthrough that night about the importance of member work. She realized fully that while it is the missionaries' job to teach, the members also have a great responsibility to fellowship and teach as well. I love that woman: she is so in tune with the Spirit.

So, a bit of a busy week. The Hindus in the Trinidad are preparing for Diwali. Last night they were making loud noises like fireworks using only pitch oil, bamboo, and a cloth. It was pretty interesting to watch. Right now in the savannah they are putting on Ram-Leela (however that is spelled), a reinactment on the story of Ram and Sita. We were able to peek at a bit of it from a member's house right next to the savannah.

I really liked Mosiah 11:12 this week. It struck me how King Noah was building something high and mighty next to the temple itself, when if he had simply worshiped in the House of Jehovah, he would have received something even higher and mightier---and he would not have had to worry about watching the land round about because I am sure Abinadi would have warned him. Oh well.

Hope you guys have a great week. Love you all!

Love, Sister Aida Tibbitts