January 6, 2014

January 6, 2014

Hey everyone!

So this week was for the most part pretty boring. We had a lot of our appointments get cancelled so that was unfortunate. On the upside we had some fun moments.

Last Friday we met a guy named H**** who is from Haiti. We talked a bunch about religion and what not and he then invited us to come to his church with him. In principle I had to accept, because we invite people all the time to our church and they never come, so I had to accept his invite.

So anyways, Sunday after our church services we went to his and I will never forget it. The meetings started at two so we arrived a few minutes early and met up with H****. We went in at sat down and to start their meeting everyone got on their knees and said a personal prayer. When we finished we sat back down and waited for the rest of the people to finish praying. About a half hour later people started randomly singing while praying. They would sing for a few minutes then go back to their prayer. This continued for an hour and a half.

We had told H**** we had to go at 4:00 so at 3:30 he sent a text to the pasteur telling the pasteur that there were visitors and that we wanted to hear some of the preaching before we had to go. Well it was obvious that we were visiting because we were the only two white people there haha.

Anyways to start the meeting they sang a song while a full band (drums, guitar, bass, piano, saxophone, trombone, etc) played. The pasteur then made some announcements for their local congregation, he then announced that visitors were present. He called us to go up front. We did and he then gave me the microphone. Haha I wanted so bad to yell "The Book of Mormon is the word of God" Instead, I presented myself and gave the mic to my comp so he could as well. At the end of our introduction we expressed our thanks to them and how we were happy to come worship with them. They yelled out a bunch of hallelujah's as we went back to our seats.

Unfortunately by this time it was 3:50 so we only got to see 10 minutes of their meeting, but it was super fun.

Well compared to our church experience yesterday anything else I could write would just be boring haha. I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Lerdahl