Very interesting week with many great experiences! It's been raining off and on this whole week so you know the mosquitoes are coming out. I'm getting eaten alive! It also makes it harder to contact because everyoneeeee has their door closed to keep out the bugs. You can see their lights on and the shadow moving but they will just not open that door haha. There is a huge river that connects our area and because of all the rain it raised all the way to the bridge! The bridge ended up getting shut down and many members weren't able to get across to church! The water actually flooded three houses completely and this week we are all going to go clean them out. It's been so sad, so many people have been taken out of there homes! But now its getting better.
This area has been so weird to contact in because almost every house we go to the people are members! No joke our area is tiny and 600 people are inactive.....We get comments like "Oh ya I was baptized 10 years ago"," Ya our whole family are members". It's SO sad. And most have them have zero desire to come back because of bad experiences that they had. I really do find great joy teaching them about the Atonement and how we have the blessing to repent and come back to church to receive help from God in our day to day lives. We are hoping to help these people this week that is coming because it's the week of the family! Activities and games and stuff so it should be exciting!
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| one of our crazy fun FHE's! |
There is a sister in our area that is a member who has diabetes that has affected her so much she has lost many of her toes and now she has many problems walking and needs help to get around. And it doesn't help that she has 3 little kids she has to take care of and she has no income. This wonderful sister this week had to go down the mountain to buy her medicine and when she tried to get back up she just didn't have the strength to lift herself up. She was just in some random little passage way on the side of the mountain and at that same moment we had just finished helping a family cut some fire wood and for "some reason" we went down this little road and found the poor sister crying and praying for help. We were able to get her home safe and it was just a beautiful experience seeing the power of prayer.
Well this is it for this week love you tons!
-Elder Sessions
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| Elder Jennings and I ready for a day's work! |
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