So today I am now 11 months old! I can't believe it! It's hard to believe that I am almost half way done with my mission. Time just flies by like crazy.
So after trying for 5 weeks in a row, we finally got Leiloni and Anara to church on sunday! Last saunday she told us she had a ride to church from her friend but then she didn't show up and we found out that she had forgotten how to get to the church and her phone is broken. And the weeks before that she had to go to the hospital because her baby had a fever. So it has been a big ordeal to get her here but she finally made it. We are planning to have their baptismon Aug 2nd! And she has asked me to baptize her and Elder Jensen will baptize Anara, her 11 yr old daughter.
Justin C is doing great. He is just waiting to move out of his house before he gets baptized. He is basically a member already. We almost had him come out teaching with us the other day cuz he has a strong testimony of almost everything and he knows it pretty good. His baptism date is on the 6th of September.
Idk if I have told you all about Sarah J yet. Elder Jensen (my last companion) and I were walking down the sidewalk and we saw her sitting on the porch talking on the phone so I pulled a card out of my pocket and went to hand it to her. She got off the phone and came down to us and asked if we had a Pearl of Great Price. Thats not usually a question that we are asked haha. We asked her why she wanted one and she told us that she had investigated the church 30 years ago when she was 16. But because of some bad choices made by a member of the church, she left and didn't want to be baptized. The things that member did were way out of line and I don't blame sarah for running off. But anyways, she has come to church 4 times in a row and she is loving it. We talked to her about baptism last lesson and she wanted to take some time and read about baptism so she could re-learn the true meaning of it. When she came to church she showed us her Book of Mormon and it literally had 20-30 sticky notes sticking out of it that she had used to mark scriptures that were about baptism. And she wasn't even half way through the Book of Mormon yet haha. We will be seeing her on wednesday and she is making us Sea-food!
We are also working with a less active lady named Elizabeth L. She just moved into the ward about 4 months ago from Shelbyville kentucky but originally she is from Africa. She has been wanting to come back to church and be active again but she has been looking for a job and she doesn't have a car. But she also has 4 boys who aren't baptized yet. Jerry is 14, Tacoonda, we call him TT, is 11, Justin is 9 and charlie is 2. We have just started to teach Jerry and TT and it is going good. We had a lesson with them on friday night, we played basketball with them at the church on saturday evening, and then we had another lesson with them on saturday. We talked to them about being baptized and they both said they wanted to. So we set a date with them for the 6th of September. We put it so far out because they don't live with their mom right now. They still live in Shelbyville until their Mom gets a job. I think she just got a pretty good job in New Albany working at Aflac. So hopefully soon the boys will be moving there!
Oh so idk if I have mentioned but I have recently gotten into jump roping in the mornings! And it is killer! The Zone leaders have been doing it for a while and they told me to try it in the mornings and it is awesome! I've gotten it down pretty dang good. And it has helped me in basketball so much with my jumping and my running. It really makes me put on a good sweat in the mornings haha its awesome!!
I think thats a long enough email for this week haha
I hope you all have a great week!
I love and miss you all!!!!
Elder Eastin
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