Teaching in Creole!

Yslande and Claudy

We are teaching a good number of investigators right now, in fact, last week didn’t have enough time to teach everyone because we were busy with zone conferences so their progress slowed because of that, but this week we’ll be working hard to get them all up and going again. I love my sector; it’ll be hard to leave it behind when I leave in 4 weeks.

One of our investigators, Yslande Meus, was baptized Saturday morning by a Haitian member named Claudy. Yslande is also Haitian and has been investigating the church for about 7 weeks. She had to overcome some difficulties in the process of getting baptized, including repentance and getting sick, but she is very resilient despite not knowing hardly any Spanish. We teach her in Creole and try to always teach with other Haitian members and that has helped her to feel a part of the ward. She has already been assigned visiting teachers who speak Creole. In her baptismal service my companion and I each gave a talk in her native language, she probably thinks our Creole is really bad, but we do it with lots of enthusiasm, so she laughs anyway. She really needed this gospel and so I´m thankful that my companion and I have been able to learn enough Creole to help her accept Jesus Christ in her life. 

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Love,

Elder Birrell