Dear Family,
Well this has been a full week! Elder Khasiahi and i have been working really hard this last week trying to help as many people as we could. To be honest we were focusing on doctrines and trying to teach many lesson. We did alright especially for our first week as being companions. We taught in total 39 lessons. There is still room for improvement and i think it will come in better planning sessions and having back ups for our back ups.
Elder Khasiahi is super dope. He was telling me about what life was like back at home. Just makes me realize i did absolutely nothing when i was at home. In Kenya, he worked on one of the largest refugee camps for a few months until rebels took out some members of his team so he decided maybe its a little too risky. He has been filling me in on about how Somalia is just a bad country all around and that is where all the refugees come from. He is just a cool guy and is teaching me a lot about east africa. He is my first east african companion and i just sweet.
Well, during the week as we were meeting our investigators i noticed that we were teaching a lot of husband and wives. Most of them, at least, are progressing. But just like i told my companion i don't have time to spend on non progressing investigators. So sometime we are dropping people so we can pick up new good ones.
During weekly planning i got to see all of our investigators and we have about 10 couples that we are teaching. I remembered about the general conference talk by Elder Anderson about the 8 or so couples in Mozambique who were all married at the same time and then baptized the day after. I brought the idea up to my companion and we talked about how we could do it. We decided that we need the Branch and Branch President to be behind us if we are going to do this. So we finally got to meet with him Saturday and discuss about what our idea was. President Harmon is so wonderful, he went behind it 100%. He suggested that some of the couples come early to churchtomorrow so that he could meet with them and discuss about how the church doesn't believe in something flashy.
So the plan went into effect. By the end of church President Harmon sat with 8 different families to talk about how it would look like. We are planning on September 6 to be the marriage and thenSeptember 13 to be the baptism. We know this is going to take a lot of work on our side to be able to get these couples truly ready for their baptisms. Now some of the families, their spouse might not be as progressing as them but we figure if we work really hard and let Heavenly Father do the rest i know that things will work out.
Not too much today but this is the plan that we have made and we are working towards accomplishing it. We are working very hard so i can finish my mission with no regrets, i am just glad to be dying in the field, so i can die with my boots on!
By the way we went fishing again today but as i said before there are no fish in Liberia. Well its not true, maybe the fish are racist. Until next week!
Love,
Elder Skouson
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