Week 6--Elder Griffiths
Hello family,
I had a great week this week. We got transfer calls, and I am so glad that I will be staying in Couva! I will be getting a new companion. His name is Elder Stott. He'll be coming up from Guyana this week.
Couva is doing great. We actually went to Chaguanas on Saturday just to see how the branch was doing. We are going to start working there at least once a week to get the members excited again.
I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to serve with Elder Griffith. He is such a great missionary, and I have learned a lot from him. I am sad that we have to be separated, but I am excited to be with Elder Stott this transfer. I know that the work will continue to progress and accelerate here.
I have a testimony of following up with people. We had a lot of fall-throughs this week, so we had the wonderful opportunity to follow up with a lot of people. While we did so, one of our investigators was not able to meet with us, but in the three minutes we were able to talk to her, we were able to find out that she received an answer to her prayer, and we were then able to put her on baptismal date! I was very grateful for that, and we are excited to see her this afternoon to help her prepare more for baptism!
A spiritual experience I had this week was in visiting Chaguanas on Saturday. It was so interesting visiting the members that the branch president asked us to because they were just so excited to see us again. They expressed how long it had been since missionaries were in their branch, and they just got really excited at the things that could start happening in the branch. That was a cool experience, and I know that this work really does make a difference in the lives of those we teach. It really helped me understand why we need to always act in harmony with the message we share.
I love you all so much. I hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Hanni
Monday, April 15, 2019
Week 89--Couva, Trinidad
Week 5--Elder Griffiths
Hello family,
We are doing great in Couva. I'm really enjoying it here. I'm really happy that as we continue looking for people close to the church, we are finding them. We had a young man this week who wanted to come teaching with us every day this week, so that was a lot of fun.
Elder Griffith is doing really good. We are still working really hard, and I am enjoying the opportunity to serve with him. He is helping me to become better, and he helped me realize this week that there is a lot of potential power in the scriptures as we use them according to our investigators' needs.
I have a testimony of our prophet and the apostles. I know that they have been chosen of God. Something that I was reminded of as I was able to watch conference this weekend was a phrase in a hymn. I can't remember what hymn it is, but the line is, "And if I listen with my heart, I'll hear the Savior's voice." I am very grateful we had the opportunity this weekend to hear the Savior's voice through His servants. One of my greatest desires is that others may be reminded of the Savior as I go about my work. I know that following the things we learned this weekend will help me to do that.
A spiritual experience I had this week was in teaching a man named Rawle. We started teaching him on Monday, and we saw him quite a bit this week, and we taught him a lot. What stood out to me, though, is that he has learned so much on his own. Every time we have gone back, he tells us how the chapter we left with him in the Book of Mormon really answered his questions or spoke to his heart. He also came to all four sessions of General Conference this weekend. He loved it. He thanked us every time for inviting him. I am so grateful to see the desires he has, and I can't wait for all of the blessings he will receive when he gets baptized!
I love all of you so much. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you for your prayers! I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Hanni
PS- I don't have any pictures to send now, but later today, we will be going on a bird-watching thing, so hopefully we get some good pictures from that.
Hello family,
We are doing great in Couva. I'm really enjoying it here. I'm really happy that as we continue looking for people close to the church, we are finding them. We had a young man this week who wanted to come teaching with us every day this week, so that was a lot of fun.
Elder Griffith is doing really good. We are still working really hard, and I am enjoying the opportunity to serve with him. He is helping me to become better, and he helped me realize this week that there is a lot of potential power in the scriptures as we use them according to our investigators' needs.
I have a testimony of our prophet and the apostles. I know that they have been chosen of God. Something that I was reminded of as I was able to watch conference this weekend was a phrase in a hymn. I can't remember what hymn it is, but the line is, "And if I listen with my heart, I'll hear the Savior's voice." I am very grateful we had the opportunity this weekend to hear the Savior's voice through His servants. One of my greatest desires is that others may be reminded of the Savior as I go about my work. I know that following the things we learned this weekend will help me to do that.
A spiritual experience I had this week was in teaching a man named Rawle. We started teaching him on Monday, and we saw him quite a bit this week, and we taught him a lot. What stood out to me, though, is that he has learned so much on his own. Every time we have gone back, he tells us how the chapter we left with him in the Book of Mormon really answered his questions or spoke to his heart. He also came to all four sessions of General Conference this weekend. He loved it. He thanked us every time for inviting him. I am so grateful to see the desires he has, and I can't wait for all of the blessings he will receive when he gets baptized!
I love all of you so much. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you for your prayers! I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Hanni
PS- I don't have any pictures to send now, but later today, we will be going on a bird-watching thing, so hopefully we get some good pictures from that.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Week 88--Couva, Trinidad
Week 4--Elder Griffiths
Hello family,
We are doing really well in Couva! Nicholas got baptized this week! It went really well, and he was so happy. We also were able to find and start teaching some really cool people. I'm really excited for what could happen here in April!
Elder Griffith and I are doing great! We really love being here, and I continue to enjoy my time with him. Our unity is great, and we are doing our best to schedule different times during the week with different members to come out with us.
I have a testimony of following the Spirit while contacting. There have been multiple times this week when we have "by chance" met someone really, really cool just because we happened to be in the right place at the right time. I am very grateful every time I get to go out and meet new people, because you just never know whom the Lord has prepared that day.
A spiritual experience for me this week was on Saturday, at Nicholas' baptism. He was first invited to church by a less active member of our ward who hasn't been to church in a while. Something that Nicholas has been talking about as we've been teaching him is his desire to help that less active member come back to church. He was able to convince him to come to his baptism, and what was a spiritual experience for me was to hear Brother Nicholas speaking to his friend at the baptism and telling him how much he wants and needs his friend to be there with him at church. It was cool to see him already ministering to others in the Savior's way. I know that that will make a huge difference.
Love,
Elder Hanni
PS- We went to the mud volcanoes today, and we stuck our arms down them. Elder Christensen stuck his face down one.
Hello family,
We are doing really well in Couva! Nicholas got baptized this week! It went really well, and he was so happy. We also were able to find and start teaching some really cool people. I'm really excited for what could happen here in April!
Elder Griffith and I are doing great! We really love being here, and I continue to enjoy my time with him. Our unity is great, and we are doing our best to schedule different times during the week with different members to come out with us.
I have a testimony of following the Spirit while contacting. There have been multiple times this week when we have "by chance" met someone really, really cool just because we happened to be in the right place at the right time. I am very grateful every time I get to go out and meet new people, because you just never know whom the Lord has prepared that day.
A spiritual experience for me this week was on Saturday, at Nicholas' baptism. He was first invited to church by a less active member of our ward who hasn't been to church in a while. Something that Nicholas has been talking about as we've been teaching him is his desire to help that less active member come back to church. He was able to convince him to come to his baptism, and what was a spiritual experience for me was to hear Brother Nicholas speaking to his friend at the baptism and telling him how much he wants and needs his friend to be there with him at church. It was cool to see him already ministering to others in the Savior's way. I know that that will make a huge difference.
Love,
Elder Hanni
PS- We went to the mud volcanoes today, and we stuck our arms down them. Elder Christensen stuck his face down one.
Monday, April 1, 2019
Week 87--Couva, Trinidad
Week 3--Elder Griffiths
Hello family,
We are doing pretty good in Couva. We are so excited for Nicholas to be baptized this coming Saturday. He is doing so well, and the members are really supporting him. We are also continuing to find those who will be prepared for April. I know that the Lord will help us to continually find more and more people as we simply go out there and find them.
Elder Griffith is doing really well. We are working hard, and we are being obedient, so I am very grateful for that. He has a very good way of explaining the gospel to those that we teach, and it's very plain and simple. I have also noticed that when he has high goals, he strives his hardest to achieve them.
I have a testimony of following the Spirit. I am very grateful for the opportunity each day to listen to the Holy Ghost so that we can know where we need to look for Heavenly Father's children. We have done so a few times this week, and it's always just fun to be able to go to an area that you feel you should work in and then meet the people there.
A spiritual experience I had this week was in going over the baptismal interview questions with Nicholas. He is so committed to being baptized, and it has just really brought about a change of heart in him. Some things he said were, "It means I am born again," and "I consider myself lucky," and of the Sabbath Day, he said, "Spend the day with Him, He rested too." I am grateful to be able to learn from him both in the things that he says and in the things that he is doing to change his life. He has told us repeatedly of how his faith and self-esteem are growing as a result of this gospel. I know that this gospel is true and that it truly changes lives. I am grateful to be an instrument in the Lord's hands.
Love,
Elder Hanni
Hello family,
We are doing pretty good in Couva. We are so excited for Nicholas to be baptized this coming Saturday. He is doing so well, and the members are really supporting him. We are also continuing to find those who will be prepared for April. I know that the Lord will help us to continually find more and more people as we simply go out there and find them.
Elder Griffith is doing really well. We are working hard, and we are being obedient, so I am very grateful for that. He has a very good way of explaining the gospel to those that we teach, and it's very plain and simple. I have also noticed that when he has high goals, he strives his hardest to achieve them.
I have a testimony of following the Spirit. I am very grateful for the opportunity each day to listen to the Holy Ghost so that we can know where we need to look for Heavenly Father's children. We have done so a few times this week, and it's always just fun to be able to go to an area that you feel you should work in and then meet the people there.
A spiritual experience I had this week was in going over the baptismal interview questions with Nicholas. He is so committed to being baptized, and it has just really brought about a change of heart in him. Some things he said were, "It means I am born again," and "I consider myself lucky," and of the Sabbath Day, he said, "Spend the day with Him, He rested too." I am grateful to be able to learn from him both in the things that he says and in the things that he is doing to change his life. He has told us repeatedly of how his faith and self-esteem are growing as a result of this gospel. I know that this gospel is true and that it truly changes lives. I am grateful to be an instrument in the Lord's hands.
Love,
Elder Hanni
Week 86--Trinidad
Week 2--Elder Griffiths
Hello family,
This week was a great week. There are so many cool people here in Trinidad, and I love it here!
We are doing great here in Couva. I really love this area a lot. It is a really cool area, and we have been able to see a lot of progress in a few of our investigators this week in the fact that a few of them have really grown a desire to be baptized.
I love being with Elder Griffith. It's honestly a lot of fun, and we are working hard. I have enjoyed being able to learn from his experience here, and he has very good desires to work hard and to have success.
I have a testimony of the importance of using study time wisely. Something that happened this week is that a certain person that we teach wanted us to look up scriptures about the afterlife and the plan of salvation, and so I wrote it down and the next personal study, I focused a lot on that. Even in our companionship study the next day, we discussed it as well. What was interesting was that that study also helped us and prepared us to answer someone else's questions in a much better way than we could have without that study. I am very thankful for the opportunity to study every single day.
A spiritual experience I had this week was when we saw Nicholas for the second time. He's the person I talked about last week. In the second lesson we had with him, we only had about ten minutes to teach him, but it was incredible. He had read the chapter that we had left him in the Book of Mormon, and he said that reading it had made the Restoration make so much sense. He told us that he had been so excited for us to come back, and after we shared our short lesson with him, he said, "When can you come back again?" I am so excited for him. He really is recognizing the difference that the Holy Ghost can have in his life, and I know that he is excited to be able to be baptized so that he can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost to be with him always.
I love you all so much. Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Hanni
Hello family,
This week was a great week. There are so many cool people here in Trinidad, and I love it here!
We are doing great here in Couva. I really love this area a lot. It is a really cool area, and we have been able to see a lot of progress in a few of our investigators this week in the fact that a few of them have really grown a desire to be baptized.
I love being with Elder Griffith. It's honestly a lot of fun, and we are working hard. I have enjoyed being able to learn from his experience here, and he has very good desires to work hard and to have success.
I have a testimony of the importance of using study time wisely. Something that happened this week is that a certain person that we teach wanted us to look up scriptures about the afterlife and the plan of salvation, and so I wrote it down and the next personal study, I focused a lot on that. Even in our companionship study the next day, we discussed it as well. What was interesting was that that study also helped us and prepared us to answer someone else's questions in a much better way than we could have without that study. I am very thankful for the opportunity to study every single day.
A spiritual experience I had this week was when we saw Nicholas for the second time. He's the person I talked about last week. In the second lesson we had with him, we only had about ten minutes to teach him, but it was incredible. He had read the chapter that we had left him in the Book of Mormon, and he said that reading it had made the Restoration make so much sense. He told us that he had been so excited for us to come back, and after we shared our short lesson with him, he said, "When can you come back again?" I am so excited for him. He really is recognizing the difference that the Holy Ghost can have in his life, and I know that he is excited to be able to be baptized so that he can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost to be with him always.
I love you all so much. Have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Hanni
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