This week we saw much success. We had the wonderful blessing of having 3 investigators at church, though one of them came partway through sacrament meeting (But at least he came!). Either way, it was a great Sunday. There was also a lot of excitement caused by our friendly branch vagrant man this Sunday. He is in his 60s and is often high on drugs, but he loves church. He is usually fairly quiet, sometimes needing one or two friendly reminders to be reverent, but this Sunday he wasn't very with it. He started singing along with the hymns in a very loud, nasally falsetto voice that made it hard for the congregation not to laugh. He definitely keeps things interesting! Haha. He has been jumping over the church fence lately to sleep on the grounds, so the Branch President had to tell him to stop. His brain is just not what it used to be, he used to be a really great, maybe even well known singer here, but the drugs have taken over. It's pretty sad.
One of the investigators that came to church is J. We met him just last week or so as we taught another couple people by the road side in a neighborhood. He walked by on his way to the shop and made some comment to the people we were teaching like, "oh, your having a bible study, huh?" They invited him to join, and he said he would on his way back. We didn't think much of it, thinking he was just giving an excuse, but sure enough, he came back and sat in. At the end of the lesson, he agreed to meet with us again a few days later. We left him a Book of Mormon committing him to read the introduction and to pray about it. The day of our return appointment came and we had a great lesson with him, he committed to baptism for the 8th of November and informed us that he had read the first 3 chapters in the Book of Mormon. The following day we were in his area again and he stopped us to tell us he had actually been wrong about how much he had read, he had read 9 chapters and continued to chapter 14 since the previous day. Sunday he came to church and loved it. Within a week of meeting him he has read 19 chapters, come to church, and has a solid baptism date. He is one of the elect whom the Lord truly prepared! We are so grateful that the Lord placed us in his path that day so we could meet him.
It is crazy to think that next week will be the start of my last transfer! Time flies. We went to the beach, one I haven't been to yet called Las Cuevas, with our zone and the Francoms today. The Francoms let us email at their house after, which was nice. (Elder Francom says to tell you "hi" haha) They're great. We had a good time playing Football (Soccer), laying in Sister Feltis' fancy camping hammock she bought when she worked at REI before her mission, wading in the water, and getting Bake and Shark at Richard's. It may be my last beach outing for my mission, who knows, but it was fun to go again. I haven't been to the beach since my first or second transfer in Trinidad. I sent pictures on Dropbox.
I hope you have a great week, and remember your missionary daughter loves you!
Love,
Sister Bratt
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