The first day of the exchange we went to see a lady named Dekontee. We had to go let her choose the hymns for her baptismal program. When we first got to her house, she wasn't there but her son and her grandkids were. We read the Book of Mormon with her son, Nyaanbi and her grandkids, Alicia and T-Boy. After reading a little bit, Elder Roskelley, my zone leader, paused for a bit and then asked "Are you all down to watch a one hour movie?"
I thought he was joking but Nyaanbi and the others were willing so we pulled up the Restoration Movie, said a prayer with them, and told them we would be back in an hour to see how they liked the movie and to talk with Dekontee.
When we came back, we Nyaanbi was gone to work but we were told he watched the whole movie, and her Granddaughter told us about how sad she was about Joseph Smith's brother dying. It was cool to see that Elder Roskelly acted on a prompting and it was able to give these people a little more understanding and personal connection to the message. Also, when we asked Dekontee what hymns she wanted she said "I cant remember what the name was but it sounded like this.." and then started singing/chanting "spirit......spirit.....
The next day, we went to see another Liberian Investigator. We had a great lesson with her and she told us that if she had her kids in the US with her that she would be baptized the next day. She just has to wait for some legal documents and then her kids can come over to be with her and learn with her. Before we left, we said a prayer and asked for her documents to come. Then we went and had lunch, and as we finished lunch we got a call from her and she asked us to help her read some stuff she had gotten in the mail. It turns out that the stuff she got in the mail was a notice that her documents were almost done, and she told us that it was because we prayed that those notices had come. It was cool to see an investigator have so much faith.
That's basically all that happened this week.
Luh you all
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