Congrats Emerson!!!!!!!!! That's super cool!!!! Love you so much little dude!!!!
That's super cool about Seth and his mission Papers!! Supes excited for him too! He'll prolly be getting his call online now too, huh! Sorry to hear about Mary, that's been rough! She'll be in my prayers, tell her hi for me next time you call!
Things on the Island are going good, we had an Aiight week this week, and taught quite a bit actually. We also had some cool experiences that I will share:
* So we got invited this week to a wedding. It was a member getting married to an Investigator. They got married in a catholic church tho... the member is active and everything, her new husband has interest in the church and everything too, but the catholic priest offered to do the wedding for free, so they did it there. It was a party! we didn't go to the reception or anything, there was way to much party at the reception. But just the wedding ceremony itself was cool. We get weird looks here whenever we walk into any building here...just because we are white. We get even weirder looks because were missionaries. So Just try to imagine the types of looks people were giving us when we walked into a Catholic church in our complete missionary attire, especially being the only white dudes in the whole building! They musta thought we were super lost!! It was funny. There was one guy staring at us legit the whole time, and he got even more confused when the brides' son turned around and waved to us (cause we're tight). LOLlolLOLlol. Everything turned out good though and we made it back in time to go teach a lesson with Pinky. Idk if I have ever told you all about Pinky before, but hes the 1st counselor here, and he's a former Rasta who never got a hair cut. Major homie. His kids are the ones in the Christmas video.
* Then the next day was Church. How did the 2 hour block change go for you guys??? Dominica's been on a two hour block for over a year so there was no change for us, but church was super cool. We had quite a few non-members show up! The first was the family that we had just gone to teach the day before with Pinky after the wedding. We had a super cool Lesson with them on the Sabbath day. Her name is Edlyna and she is a single mother with 3 kids (8, 4, 0.5) and when we invited her to church the day before she told us: "Not tomorrow, but maybe some other Sunday" Which was disappointing, so we were shocked to see here there the very next day, walking into the church with all three of her kids bathed and nicely dressed and ready to go. We were both shocked. But so happy she made it!
The other person to come to Church was one of Pinky's friends. His name is Mr. Francis. He was a friend of Pinky's back in his Rasta days and from what we've seen Mr. Francis still lives the Rasta life. But he came to church and participated a ton in Sunday school and even during fast and testimony meeting got up not only once to bear his testimony, but a second time as well during a really long awkward pause between testimonies. His opening line of his testimony was golden as well. He gets up there and says: "I wanna testify to you all, JAH Lives! Oh, I mean Jesus Christ, Jesus Lives!" and his closing line: "Yeah *with a thumbs up*" It was golden.
Otherwise the week was pretty normal. Sanford family is doing good. Everyone is cool.
Thanks for the update!!! Lots of Love!!!!!
Elder Bailey
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