Greetings from D'abadie

Greetings from D'abadie! This week was the first of a new transfer which made it a good week, but also a busy one. It was a holiday weekend as well, Thursday being Trinidad's labor day, and Friday was Corpus Christi, a Roman Catholic holiday. That meant that a lot of people that we are teaching were either home, or out of town for the weekend. So some of our days were good, and others were slow, but we worked hard. We also did service at our Branch building on Thursday morning, less active visits on Saturday afternoon, an a missionary fireside Sunday evening. Not too many members came to help clean the church, but the ones who came worked hard, and it payed off. Less-active visits were very successful. Our group was able to see almost everyone on our list, though some of them didn't have time to sit down for a lesson. We were very pleased with the turnout of members at the fireside! Unfortunately, the investigator turnout wasn't so spectacular. I think it was good to get the members to see how great the firesides can be so that next time they will invite more people. We are going to start early to get them and our investigators excited for the one next month. We are putting together a video to share with the members who didn't come to let them see what they missed out on, and we will give those who came an opportunity to share their testimonies about what they learned. Our fireside was about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we used Lehi's vision to teach it by doing an Iron Rod experience through the church complete with yarn (the rod), obstacles, tempters, the Holy Ghost, and plenty of blindfolded members to walk the "not-so-straight-or-narrow-path" along the rod of iron. Everyone who came, including us, learned a lot from the experience. The spirit was very strong.

We are working to build up our teaching pool again. We have some plans for this coming week to work with members to get more people to teach so we can keep the escalator moving upward. The Lord is aware of our needs and sees our desire to help his children, so people will come through our diligence and hard work.

Love,

Sister Bratt