Elder Pilling in Antigua

Hey everyone!!! This week was a very good week. Went by very fast and we have transfers in like 10 days :/     But we started this week with being in a trio with one of the assistants to the president! Elder Barahona. That was fun and interesting. He can eat soooooo much haha it was so fun. We met with a 9 year old boy who wants to be baptized but is a little scared of the water. So we are trying to encourage and motive him to be excited and want to be baptized in March!  Funny story… Wednesday we went to a village in the mountains called Chichoy Paraíso. We met with a lady we talked to a few weeks back in town. We got to know her a little and then we shared a message. She then asked us if we did anything else besides share messages about Jesus Christ. We replied with "of course! We serve and help others!" She said, "Can you guys build me a house please?”  We were a little shocked and surprised. Sadly, we responded and said we couldn't build a house. And we don'...

  Hi everyone!!!!  Sooo this week was super awesome and went by so fast. We started our new schedule this week, leaving  at 10 am  in the morning! It is so much better than leaving at 1 or 2 haha.  So we finalized a baptism date with Rosa. She has been meeting with the missionaries since last June... and her husband is a member and now she made the decision to be baptized  on the 5th of March ! We are very excited for her!!! We met with Vany as well and things are still progressing with her, she just has lots of questions haha.  On Tuesday we had divisions! I went to my zone leader’s area and got to work with him for a day. It was super cool to see another area and work with a different companion - a latino haha. Then Thursday we had zone conference!!! It was super good and we talked about why we changed the schedule and the p day. And talking with President and Hermana Probst was awesome! We went to the tienda, or little store, and bought some snacks ...

  Hi everyone!!! Welcome back to the blog Kind of a short week but a really good one (p-day is now Monday).  So it started off  Wednesday night , we met with Vany Gomez. We talked about baptism and if she felt ready… she said she still has a few doubts but wants to be baptized in our church because she knows Joseph Smith was a prophet, the Book of Mormon is true and that our church is the only church with the true priesthood! So we have big plans for our next lesson.  On Saturday we decided to talk to an old friend who was talking to the missionaries like 4 months ago… Julio Cesar. He's 25 and he is the only member not baptized in his family, although they havent been to church in years. He really enjoyed our visit with him and wants to learn what he needs to do to be baptized!!! So we are visiting him this week and are going to help him and hopefully see him progress closer to Jesus christ.  Elder Reid is sick again... it's not as bad as last time but his stoma...

Hi everyone. Welcome back to the blog. This week I don't even know what we did. It went by so fast.  So... we got to teach Pedro and his family Thursday!! The Bishop accompanied us and it went super awesome. We really dove deep into the priesthood and its authority. Then we went back Saturday to invite them to church and remind them about the family home evening we planned for Sunday... we went at around 6, not expecting Pedro to be home because he works until 8. But he was! We were so surprised. We sat down and talked for a few minutes and he tells us he's going back to Canada to work for a year... And he literally leaves tomorrow. It was so sad I tried so hard to be excited and happy for him but it was pretty hard honestly. But, he and his wife did come to church!! Then the FHE on Sunday was less than good. He told us he had some doubts and that he was active in his current church. And that he would still be interested in learning more but with time. So like we are going to t...

Hey everyone!!  So I wasn't sick this week. But my companion was and it was not fun for him. Or me... haha.  Last Thursday Elder Reid woke up feeling terrible. So we didn't leave the house alllll day. And it was our p day. Kinda hard. And then Friday he felt bad too. So we left the house once at 4 to do our laundry and buy food. Then we came straight home. Then Saturday he felt a little better and we were able to go to a ward baptism in the morning. We then went to the zone leader’s house to have a meeting about the goals they have for the district leaders because I am now a district leader. On the bus ride Elder Reid felt worse. And then we had to take another bus home!! So when we got home around 5 he felt good enough to try a few visits then we went home and rested because we had a visit with Pedro and his family!!! So that went super good! We actually invited them to be baptized... but they said that they were already baptized in their current church... so we have a few th...

Hi everyone!!!!! I really hope you are all doing good despite the challenges you may be having.  This week was incredible!! So first off, it actually wasn't incredible and was actually one of the hardest few days of my mission... like Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were hard. It was the end of the transfer and a few other things going on. Saturday nobody listened to us and would straight up say no before we finished introducing ourselves. But Sunday and Monday were alright. Not too bad.  Monday night  we found out about transfers, who was staying and who was leaving! So Elder Reid and I are both staying here!! We are soooo excited. We really wanted to stay together. That made us so happy. But then Tuesday was again REALLY HARD. Everything was good for me but my comp was having a tough time and so it ended up being a little tough for both of us. However... on Friday we received a reference from some sisters in our mission. It's a family of 4 - Pedro, Yolanda, Madeline, and...

Hi everyone!!!! I hope you all had an awesome week! This week was a little different because Elder Reid and I both had immigration on different days. Butttt it was good nonetheless. I had to go  Thursday at 3am  and Elder Reid on Tuesday.  So this week we made good progress with our friends that we are teaching! Saturday we met with Marcos and had an excellent lesson with him. We are really hoping that this weekend we can get him to church and hopefully have a baptism date to work towards! And on Saturday we also got to meet with a girl named Jamine. She's super interested and read the pamphlet. Like she studied it... haha she had answers to all the questions we asked about! The only thing is we have only had 2 lessons and both at her doorstep. But we also want her to come to church on Sunday! It's kinda hard with both of them because we can only meet with them on the weekends. So progress is a little slow. But its progress :) Really funny story this week. So Elder Reid o...