Okay, well it is Week Three in St. Vincent.
So we have been teaching this 11 year old boy, his name is
Jevvie. He’s probably my best friend in
all of St. Vincent. He is a really cool
little kid. One day he came up to me and
said “hey I want to get baptized” so we went and asked his mom if he could get
baptized after being taught by the missionaries and she said yes. We have taught him three times now and he is
just the coolest kid. He follows me
around to all of our teaching appointments and he tells me all the time that
when he gets older, he wants to be a missionary just like me. It makes me so happy that I’m setting a good
example for this little guy. He always thief’s
my tag and puts it on and it is just a cool experience to see that kids
testimony grow and him being only 11 years old.
I didn’t put this in my letter last week but last Monday we
climbed the volcano that is on the island and its name is La Soufre. I think that’s how it’s spelled but it was a
lot of fun. Elder George and I were
throwing rocks the whole time at random stuff and having throwing competitions
and it was a lot of fun. As we were getting towards the top, it got really
windy and it was kind of sketchy standing over this volcano with high powered
winds blowing on you but it was still really cool. I would have pictures but it stinks how bad
these computers are here. Then Elders George,
Page and I ran down the volcano and that was super fun running down and dodging
things and sliding on wet rocks and such. They both fell but I was lucky enough
to not fall on the way down.
We had 6 investigators at church yesterday. The kid that I
said was the next Ziggy Ansah came and that was really cool. We got to talk to him a little bit more about
the gospel and how everything in this life that he wants can be his because he
has great desires. He wants a family and
a wife and that is hard to find in the Caribbean. It makes me smile every time we talk about
it. He is just really cool. Francena brought her grandson to church and
that was cool and Jevvie brought one of his friends to church with him also so
he is doing missionary work all the time!
On Saturday this huge missionary group from the states came
and did a "religious show" for the people of Georgetown. Since the whole town was there we went
also. It was actually really cool. Their purpose as missionaries was just to
show their love of Jesus and how we can to, so that was really cool. The show was a Polynesian island dancing show
which was really cool especially when your companion is from Tonga. When the Tongan dancers got up to dance, half
way through there dance my companion runs up there and starts dancing with them
and now he is a celebrity in the town. It
was just the funniest thing see this missionary run up to the stage and just
start rolling around on the stage in front of 500 people. The people said that
they will put it on facebook so someone will have to tell me if it made it on
there. The group is called island breeze. It was really cool though just
sitting there at a religious show and having all of our investigators
surrounding us asking us questions so the show was an answer to our prayers.
On Friday we played cricket with a bunch of the youth
in the town. They said that im not
allowed to bowl to them anymore because I throw to hard but it was still really
cool because we were able to have some fun with the kids that come to church.
On the bus ride to Kingstown today, which is about a hour
away from where we live, a lady got on the bus right after me and she was
crying and just something was wrong with her.
She looked at me and saw that I had a tag that had Jesus Christ on my
chest and she looked me in the eyes and I just saw this woman with fear and
sadness in her eyes. The White Handbook(missionary
rules) says to not hug women but in that situation I thought in my mind when
Jesus Christ was on this earth, what would he have done. So I
wrapped my arm around her and pulled her close to me and she fell asleep on me
for the rest of the bus ride. I share
this because as I have grown closer to Jesus Christ, I have been able to
experience what the pure love of Christ really is and how important it is in
this life. I looked at this woman with
the eyes of Christ, not with my human eyes where I would have seen her as a
stinky, homeless, drunk old lady but as a daughter of God who needs
comfort. That’s what I have been called
as a missionary to do. We got off the bus and she looked so much better. Her
name is Susan. Im here to help people and that’s what brings me the most
happiness in my life and it can in anyone’s life. I challenge you to try to
look from Jesus Christ perspective at least once this week so that you can
share that pure love with someone.
I love you all so very much and happy Valentine’s Day. Experience the greatest love story in Luke
Chapter 22
Love Elder Fokken
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