the other sisters we havent met with either cause they have found a new english class that can help them with thier GED too but its for 7 hours a day. so they cant come to church and cant meet with us at all. the rest of the family is hard to meet with too cause of the father that is there most of the day too. we are trying so hard to get in there and they have come to far just to be too busy to meet with us. kinda frustrating.
we also found last week a guy named emanuel who had a baptismal date before we started meeting with him. we came in and could see that he still has a really strong interest. its pretty promising that he will progress especially since he dosnt work on sundays. our less actives this past week were on fire though. we were able to meet with terry and vinia each and they both fed us. they said they were going to come to church but both of them had things that came up at the last second.
we also did a street sweep which is where we set up a booth on the street and talk to everyone about the church. from what everyone said about other street sweeps that they did this one was really successful. i had some success with talking to people but also met some very interesting people, and the other elders in my zone set me up with some great experiences too.
first off sister valentine pointed out a man that was walking away from us and she said that she thought he would understand better in creole. so elder jean and i ran after him but before we could open our mouths he started screaming that mormons were from the devil in perfect english. we didnt even speak to him in creole and then another guy came up and said he would pray for us and for us to stop our demon worship. we came back and sister valentine asked us if he spoke better in creole with a huge grin on her face... sigh....
after that i came to a realization that most haitian people are really friendly and even if they dont agree with you they will still take a pass along card and say have a nice day. after meeting alot of haitian people i started talking to a jamacan guy. i gave him a pass along card and started talking about the BOM. he took the card ripped it up RIGHT in front of me and walked off. i really not starting to like bob marley and his "carpe diem" theology. bottom line was that we got a lot of names for the sisters and for the spanish elders.
the cops here are really funny. every time we pass them they always say to stay safe and to not stay out late too long. this is really funny cause the only people that bother us are homeless people asking for money that we dont have. we pass jahovahs witnesses everyday in like mobs of em and im glad that we have yet to have a colission with em.
EXCITING NEWS: my first transfer is over and im going to be paired ONLY with elder JEAN. elder jones will be living with us too and he will be a district leader and work with elder campbell, my mtc companion, who will also be living with us (yay). so for the past two days we have been running around getting ready for next transfer which includes putting up a new bunkbed, dresser, and desk, all while moving all our stuff around.
sister valentine is moving out of our district which is sad cause she was super fun and made things going. it seems like the sisters find the craziest people to teach. they brought a mental guy to church who will probably start stalking them and the district leaders said he wasnt accountable so he couldnt be baptized. it was a VERY interesting church meeting.
jamarie is still being baptized on the 16th so that is super exciting and he is really ready for it. after him though we are going to have to work really hard to find some more people cause everyone else is not progressing :( things looked really promising but now not so much now. anyway it was a really good transfer and we will still work hard next trasfer as well.
have a great week!!
-Elder Johnson-
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