the people we met with and taught were a little different this week. We taught the Dure family who are the haitian family that we found two weeks ago. its hard to teach them cause they all have different schedules and their father doesnt let us come into their house without being completely distracting and drives the spirit away. we are now on the thrid lesson for two of the sisters marie-francois and marie-carmel. the third sister shirlie has been taught the fourth lesson and is pretty much ready for baptism except that she has to get sundays off and come to church. the rest of the family, which is the mother susane and the brothers philip and alex, is still on the plan of salvation.
The second person we tried to meet with is Emmanuel jean. Everyone here has the name jean or marie in their name. its REALLY confusing when you look down your contact list and thats all you have written. haha. Emmanuel has yet to meet with us but is really interested and works a lot, just like the rest of NYC. we met his friend at the door and she wouldnt even tell us her name cause she was so against us. it was really funny after though cause as soon as elder jean and i (mostly elder jean) spoke in creole she opened up and told us her name. we even saw her the next day and she stopped us and talked to us. people are really funny here ahah.
The third person we are teaching is Jamarie. Hes from Trinidad and is 11. his step mom loves church and has been a member for years. she started to bring jamarie to church and he wants to get taught the lessons. apparently hes afraid of water but i think we can fix that pretty easily ahah. we helped his mom clean out her place so she could start renting the bottom floor of it. the guy that is moving in is lds and an rm and hes even a musician. i think he will be great for teaching and his family sounds super awesome. jamaries mom's (sis brewster) daughter works at the chase bank where we get cash from our cards from. shes kinda inactive but we come by and see her every couple of days when we need cash. she usually sees us first and stops to say hi.
Ive met some pretty interesting people like i said this week. First there was Evet who was a referal that was in the area book. we stopped by her house to find that she had broken her leg in two places and had no insurance cause shes right off the plane from haiti. her son wasnt paying for much help and she said he only works two hours a week. kinda was a touchy subject for her neighbors that were in her house cause i think they think that hes a lazy bum that ditched his mom when she needed a lot of help. we really dont know what to do with her but just to visit and teach her. we were going to talk to the bishop about if there is someone that we can put her in contact with that could help her. we know that we arent supposed to solicit the welfare program of the church so we were just looking for a way for her to get some insurance or a green card or somehting. sad story and we really want to help but there is almost nothing that we can do that will help her directly.
Another person we met on the bus yesterday noticed that we were missionaries for the church and asked about us. i confirmed what he said and asked if he was ever interested. he shook his head no so i gave him a pass along card. upon receiving this he picked up his phone and dialed the number on it to get a free book of mormon. he was speaking english so its not like there was a language barrier like there usually is but w/e... we were going to get his address and phone number either way haha.
anyway thats all for this week. thanks for the mail. i got a lot of letters this week that i will try to respond too. btw it takes about 5-7 days for mail to get to me from Texas. so yeah. oh yeah and send me some pictures on whats happening at home! ill see if i can locate a card reader so i can send some home too. have a great week everyone!!!
Elder Johnson
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