So the subject for my letter is “Tongans for Diarrhea” which
is what you get in the Caribbean and what I heard from my companion all
week. This week was a long one. We didn’t really get too much of work done because
yes my companion was sick and we stayed inside a lot. I was able to do some tradeoffs with the other
elders in out apartment so I could at least go teach some of our investigators
but sadly, nothing super special happened this week which was a bummer.
That said, on Friday I was having a rough day and just doing
a lot of hard thinking. As I was taking
on the phone with another Elder, we got a knock on the door. It was the senior couple with a package for
me. It had two baseball gloves and a baseball,
a football and a mini basketball hoop. That
was so awesome, it made my day. Elder
Page and I immediately went outside and played catch with the baseball and
gloves. Every day we do that now and we
are slowly moving up to where I’m throwing as hard as I can and he is moving to
where he can catch it most of the time.
I really wish I had more to say this week. We had a less active at church yesterday and
that was really amazing just because he is a really cool guy. He is super athletic. His family are all captains of different
sports for the national team and he is just really good at all of them. This week when we taught him, it seemed
different that our normal lessons right from the start. He got really involved and really showed us
his spiritual side. I was so amazed by
this man’s testimony. He said that he
has never felt more loved by missionaries and that’s why he wants to start
coming back to church and doing what’s right. I tell him all the time that we need him and
that he is just an amazing man. He
finally took to that to heart and said that he wants to make that step and get
back to where he used to be and he is doing it.
We are excited to see him continue to grow and get stronger every day.
This next story is not to put down others or to make it seem
like we are any better but it was just kind of funny that the huge missionary
group that was in St. Vincent last week that did a huge show left a bunch of
trash and stuff everywhere. We went and
helped a few locals clean it up while all the visiting missionaries were out
playing and swimming in the ocean. They
came and they taught the people and challenged them to come unto Jesus and
after they do that, then they go away and there we are doing all the cleanup work.
We just went to help our people clean up
but did use the opportunity to talk about how important it is to have faith but
with faith also comes work. We just hope
we are setting a Christ like example and showing these people we truly care
about them. I thank those missionaries
that came, they helped us in many ways further God works here in
Georgetown.
Well I’m sorry this letter stunk, it was just an uninteresting
week. I hope I can have a better one
next week.
Love you all so muck
Elder Fokken
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