The first day we flew in, had dinner at the mission presidents home, which is really nice, had interviews, some training, then we stayed the night in a hotel.
Next day had transfer meeting, had some training, testimony meeting, then met our comps. My companion is Elder Wood from Las Vegas. He's goes home in January so I'll be his second to last comp. Im his first trainee and so far its been going pretty good! Instead of tracting here, we do what's called Harvesting, created by Pres. Anderson, which means we knock on people's doors, say that we are representatives of Jesus Christ and He sent us here to give them his peace and blessing! Everyone loves Jesus here, except the grumpy white people and random asian budhists, so they are more than willing to have us say a prayer with them. We make the prayers very personal then ask how they feel. We explain that it's the Holy Ghost that they feel and invite them to be baptized so they can have that feeling always. Most people have been baptized already so we explain you can be baptized again and we invite them to come to church and see if we can come teach them more. It just depends on the people whether or not they accept, and how prepared they are. So far we have been giving a lot of blessings, the most in our district, but we only have 2 new investigators. Which isn't good, but we are kind of starting this area up, so by next week we should have a lot more.
We live in an apartment, cypress shores apartments, in Coconut Creek FL. We live with 2 elders that speak creole, which is a very easy language, ive already picked up a little bit of it just from listening. It's a twisted version of French. Pretty cool though. Oh yeah, I'm serving in the Ghetto! it's awesome! I finally get to get in touch with my inner-black self. The only people we teach are Haitian or Black, we've talked to 2 white people, and white people are very mean. The Haitians and Blacks are very humble, thats why we harvest in the ghetto areas, we live in the nice area, but go to the ghetto areas, so mom you can sleep peacefully now knowing that i'm safe:) it's so tight, it's like teleporting to a 3rd world country. The Haitians live as if they are in Haiti so it's like walking down the streets of Haiti. It's pretty awesome and humbling since we have so much.
Also about 90% of the missionaries serving here are from Utah, super weird, alot graduated from LP a few years back. Also an Elder Webb is my zone-leader, he's from the gublers ward, somehow related to them. And i just remembered. We stopped to talk to some lady who was smoking something, possibly marijuana. She wasn't really receptive, but that was alright because Elder Wood and I felt pretty good after that, probably from the smoke. Well this mission is truly amazing, since pres. Anderson created Harvesting the mission has boomed. Just yesterday they had to split the ward twice because of the growth. It's awesome! I love being able to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, because there are people just waiting to hear it, like this guy named Ontario. We were walking past him and i just asked, "Hey hows it going? Will you be baptized?" he said yes, which took me off guard, so we made a follow up visit and saw him last night and I think he will be baptized, we will see.
Well I love you guys! oh yeah, I am the tallest missionary in this mission, and Elder wood is 6 4 so we stick out since all the blacks and haitians are very, very short, its awesome!
Elder Bailey
ps thank uncle stuart for his email and forward this to him. And thanks randon for the email as well! I really enjoyed it!
also don't send packages through UPS or i have to wait until transfer to get it because everything has to be forwarded from the mission home and you cant forward UPS or fedex. so go USPS.
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| Elder Bailey with President & Sister Anderson |
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