(Elder Cummings)
大家好！
Transfers were this week! And....
I'll be staying in the West Bank! #blessedbank #bestbank
Unfortunately that means that Elder Christensen is leaving
but we knew one of us was gone cause he's finished training me. He's off to
Denham Springs to be an office Elder over the cars and housing so that's
exciting!
This week seemed a little slow honestly, a good 80% of our
lessons cancelled which makes it hard but that's how it is sometimes.
But...Fernando got baptized this weekend!! I dont know if I mentioned him but
he's an awesome, committed guy. He's my brother Jesse's friend from college and
started teaching him over zoom a couple weeks ago. We got in contact with the
missionaries in Orlando and they finished teaching and preparing him for
baptism. We were able to zoom into the baptism on Saturday! It was beautiful
and not a few tears of gratitude were shed...
Anyway, bookend Yoyo's. Yoyo is a member who we've been
trying to contact since I've been here. The man has a crazy inspiring story.
Basically he grew up in a small village in a valley in Southeat Asia area. The
village is made up of only Christians and other non-Christian militias and
armed groups have been going at them for years now because they believe in
Christ. Some really crazy and scary civil war. So these guys have been trying
to bomb and wipe out Yoyo's town for decades now and he grew up fighting in the
war since he was a child. This village has been able to fight off these guys
for so long and it's nothing short of a miracle, because Yoyo says they just
destroy all the Non-Christians whenever they come at them. Super crazy, that's not
even half of it.
So, anyway my second night in the field we met with him and
his wife...my second to last night with Elder Christensen we finally met with
him again. This time he brought a friend and we showed them all the Christ
Child video. Afterwards, they just talked to eachother for like 5 minutes in
Burmese or Kachin, we don't really know, they all speak both but only Yoyo
speaks English. Then Yoyo looks to us and offers one of the deepest analysis
I've ever heard. He just goes off on how Christ's birth was revealed to both
the poorest of poor and the richest if richest, the unlearned and the learned,
those that were near Bethlehem and those that were far. Then he smiles and says
"Christ is for everyone". Amen Yoyo, Christ is for EVERYONE.
Long story short Yoyo's wife and his friend Hkun want to
meet with the missionaries and So we got on contact with an elder that speaks
Burmese and we're(he is) gonna teach them!! Miracles are real y'all
Elder Cummings
Photo: us at Fernando's baptism!!!! In all seriousness we
are so grateful for the Elders in Orlando, who's faces we are covering with our
own. And we are SO grateful for Fernando's willingness and faith to get
baptized!!
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