Dear Mom, Dad, Lauren, and Ian (huh, that's weird),
I want to start this email by saying AHHHHHHH!!! WELCOME
HOME, IAN BRODY!! That's right; my brother is finally home after faithfully
serving the Lord for two difficult but indescribably joyous years! I couldn't
be more proud of him! Now it's my turn to walk the same path my brother has so
that I can have a better relationship and understanding with God and Jesus
Christ. ^_^
This week was the baptism of Alexandra! My first baptism
ever! Well, I didn't actually do the baptism, but as a companionship! I did,
however, speak on Baptism at her baptism. I’ll try to stop using the word now;
it's starting to sound weird. X) Anyway,
it went alright. I feel like my talk for Sunday was better. I had more time to prepare for that one than I
did for this. I had only about 1 hour to prepare for it. But Alexandra said
that I did really good! ^_^ Our branch doesn't have a font, so we had to go to
a member's house close by and use their pool. Even though it was a cool night and the water
was cold, Alexandra was doing nothing but smiling when she got into the pool. I can't even begin to describe the joy I felt
to see her be baptized. Being a part of
leading someone unto Christ and baptism is truly something special. I can't
take even half of the credit though; it was the Holy Spirit that testified unto
her the truth. All I am is an envoy of
the Holy Spirit; I say what He wants me to say and I do what He tells me to do.
And if I learn to do that without fail,
everything will be ok. ^_^
Now for the rather down-y part. It's the holidays and
lots of people aren't available. And also, we spent most of the week traveling
all over the Dominican Republic for conferences and activities. Out of the
25-30 lessons a week we usually teach a week, we only were able to teach 8. I
suppose it's understandable why the numbers would drop, but man, that's just
sad. My companion and I agreed that even though it's the holidays, we're gonna
try much harder to make citas (appointments) and try to get the numbers back up
some. It'll be hard because of the holidays, but we're gonna work even harder.
If it is truly our best, I know that the Lord will understand, and hopefully we
won't feel as bad for the low numbers. But like the scriptures say, He doesn't
want us to run more than we have strength (thank goodness!). So we will do our
best to improve! However, despite the low numbers, we had good opportunities to
serve people. This week we had to help re-cement a garage for a family. We had
to mix and spread the cement ourselves, and whoo! what a work out!
We also had a really powerful Christmas Conference with
the Zone and a neighboring Zone. Wow, Elder Jeffery R. Holland is a powerful
speaker! President Hernandez played an
audio recording of a Mission President Conference on “Why Missionary Work is
Hard.” It made me cry, hehe. Ask Ian about
the things he said, it's sooooo good.
That's about it for this week. No phrase of the week
though :( I haven't had the time to catch one. Next week for sure! I can’t wait
to Google+ all of you this week for
Christmas! Feliz Navidad a todo! Merry Christmas everyone! I love you all! And
again, welcome home, Bro! :)
-Elder Froude
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