Week Fifty Five

This week was good! We did a lot of finding, and teaching this week. Recently a brother in the ward got an assignment to find every less active member of the church, and see if they still live in the boundaries. So we have been going on splits with him a ton! It's been cool to meet a bunch of the members from the branch.

This week we taught a lesson to Abela and Stanley. They are both from Tanzania, and are really awesome! They speak Swahili there! We were teaching Stanley about baptism, and Abela came outside and decided she wanted to sit in on a lesson. So we had our lesson focused on 2 Nephi 31. Stanley had his scriptures on his phone, and Abela had an English copy of the Book of Mormon. I started us off and began reading. It was not going very well when I suddenly remembered briefly seeing a Book of Mormon in the car with foreign writing on it. So I said hold up real quick. I ran to the car and checked the book of Mormon, and it just so happened to be a Swahili book of Mormon! I ran back and gave it to Abela, and she was sooooo happy. She was in disbelief that they had Swahili copies. Then I went over to Stanley and changed his gospel library app to Swahili! We resumed the lesson with Stanley, and he read 2 Nephi 31: 3, and it says: 

3 For my soul delighteth in plainness; for after this manner doth the Lord God work among the children of men. For the Lord God giveth light unto the understanding; for he speaketh unto men according to their language, unto their understanding.

When he finished reading he was like "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is this for realll?" I hadn't realized what happened yet, and he started to read the language part.  He and Abela got really excited and wouldn't stop talking about it for a few minutes😂 we finally calmed him down and continued the lesson. The scripture is true though, and all of our testimonies of the Book of Mormon were strengthened at that moment!

Bill is also strengthening my testimony. Bill recently quit his job, and in turn lost his work truck. The day after he quit his job he texted us, and asked if he could go out with us to see what it's like being a missionary. So here we are driving from appointment to appointment with Bill in his mom's car behind us! He was a great investigator present! He was testifying of the truthfulness of what we taught and telling everyone that he was going to be getting baptized soon. The next few days really humbled me though. It has been pouring rain out here in Boston, like enough that roads were 4 feet under in some spots. Bill wasn't able to use his mom's car the last few days, so he walked 6 miles to get to the church for our lessons, and for church. He doesn't like accepting service from people so he didn't want anyone to give him a ride. He passed his baptismal interview though on Sunday, and is ready to be baptized.

It was a good week though, and I hope all y'all have a great week too! 

 Boston

Some pictures of Lynn yesterday, it was crazy.