Week #82

Week #81

Bon Tardi,

It's been a wonderful week in the islands. I seriously love it here more than words can describe. This area will bring me to tears when I leave.. Anyways so this week we visited Curacao for zone conference which was so awesome! I went up the day before to conduct exchanges with the elders there which was super super fun. I love this zone, it's hands down been my favorite place on my mission. It was a tutoring week as I like to call them. So this week we met this couple from the International Bible church. The people from this church normally just like to fight with us but these people felt the spirit and keep inviting us back. It's been cool because you can see in their faces that they want to deny what we are saying but the literally can't. It's been really cool to see!
  One of the recent convert families here in Bonaire is doing great. Brother Mens just yesterday received the Melchizedek priesthood and was called as our branch mission leader so I am super super pumped!!!!! It's been amazing to see them change and especially him. He's already read handbook 2 all the way through.. He's awesome! Anyway I love you all Have a good week!

   Elder Lewis

Week #84

Week #80

No Letter This Week

Week #79

Hello Everyone!

This week was a stretching one. Most of our appointments fell through. Everything fell through this week so we worked very diligently in our contact area. We put in a lot of time there, we are busy finishing up a contact area that elders had left before completion and this week we finished it. We mostly finished it. IT has gotten to the point where we are just walking in circles and we can't find the houses that are marked down. But we have found so many people who otherwise were not home. I felt very good about it. A lot of seeds get planted and I know that we are doing the Lords work. This week was drenched with celestial experiences. Most of which were in our contact area. One of them and perhaps the most influential was a couple days ago where everything fell through and we were contacting all day trying our best to get every single person. It was about 7:30 and we went to the last house on one of the last streets that we just hadn't felt like it was a good time to contact it but it was the last one so we squared up and did it. Honestly I think we felt that way because the people looked extremely uninterested in anything, especially religion. But we went and we talked with that family, Christ-loving man for 30 minutes and he had so many questions and wanted us to come back. HE was a dutch man who moved away from the Netherlands because of the ridicule they get for believing in God. We got his info and are going back. That whole day was so hard and we were tired and done because no one was home or wanted to listen. But the Lord wanted to see if we would be diligent and we found Amulek in Ammonihah, the very last house. It was an amazing experience. 

This week I get to go to Aruba to do companion exchanges so I am really excited about that! 

-Elder Lewis

This is Clyde.  He follows us around all day.

 

Week #78

Hello One and All,

This week was great! World War three here in the islands for new years but nothing compared to Suriname! This week was so so so great! The Lords hand has been obvious in our work as we have strove to talk to every one and push the Book of Mormon. We have these things called contact areas and we pray to know where we need to go and once we know we do not leave that area until every single house has been contacted and a person at that house has been talked to. There is nothing more rewarding than leaving an area knowing you've done all you possibly could to preach the gospel. We had a cool experience with that this week as I felt inspired to go to our contact area even though we could only stay for 10 minutes. I saw the street in my head that I knew we needed to go too and we go and find this man from Colorado. He said the coolest thing "Yeah I saw the missionaries all the time but they never stopped at my door" It's amazing that of all places, he meets us on the  tiny island of Bonaire. It was a huge testament that God answers prayers and if we follow the spirit he will lead us to his children. He is going back to Colorado but he gave us his information so that the missionaries there can teach him and his family! I  am so grateful for this work. I remember riding to our next appointment being so so so pumped just loving the work. We are looking forward to January to see a lot of people who told us "next year" 

I hope everyone had a great holiday!

-Elder Lewis

Week #77

I promise next week I will send  a letter, I am having a hard time finding things to write about.