HEY!
It has been another sweet week here in Santa Maria. The work of the Lord continues to accelerate. What a blessing it is to be a part of this marvelous work.
As in the past weeks we have been focusing more than ever on strengthening the branch members. We need to create a more mature and converted members and leaders. We had a total of 13 lessons with recent converts and less actives. As a result, we witnessed the most successful week for the branch that I have ever seen and heard of. We had the most spiritual and reverent church meeting this Sunday that I have ever seen. The members were quiet, the Gospel Principles class ran well (we trained the Gospel Principles teacher). We had a total of 52 people in sacrament meeting. That is the highest the frequency has been for months.
This week, we had a change in the leadership of the branch. President Jacinto was released and President Rodrigues was called. President Rodrigues is a recent convert of 1 and half years. He was baptized by Elder Bruce, before the group was established in Santa Maria. Unfortunately a few years ago, President got into accident was paralyzed from his waist down. He uses an electric chair to move himself around. He is doing physical therapy, but there are not very good resources here in Cape Verde, so he has gone to Portugal to do rehab. Pres. Rodrigues is incredible; he has a great love for the scriptures and a strong testimony of this restored Gospel. He has admitted that he is a bit scared and overwhelmed, but surely with his obedience and diligence the angels will be around him to bear him up and help him magnify his calling.
Our recent converts, Jezidel and Judith are doing fantastic. We are really working to help them become more integrated into branch and get to know all the members so they can maintain themselves strong in the gospel.
We have been teaching a young man named Steven. Steven was actually a reference from President Rodrigues. Steven had been invited to church a few times and then just decided to come. Ever since we talked to him he can’t stop reading in the Book of Mormon, he loved reading about Christ's ministry in the Americas. He has a great desire to follow and to be baptized. Just that he is currently living with his girlfriend, and they have a kid together. His girlfriend wants NOTHING to do with us; she won’t talk to us or anything. So until this point we have just been talking to Steven. We taught him about the Law of Chastity on the 3rd visit and went right into marriage. Apparently, they both want to be married, so that’s a plus. We marked a goal for them to be married on the 25th of July. With faith and diligence, this goal can be met, they can be married and Steven will be baptized on the 26th of July!
Just the other day as we were walking on the street we heard someone shout from a bar. We didn’t really think much of it, but then we decided to go back. Turns out it was a woman calling us. Apparently we had contacted her on the street and we never passed by her house. We started teaching her, she came and watched the baptism and came to church and now she wants to be baptized. What a miracle. The only small difficulty is that she is the owner of a bar that is her only work. However, I know that if she has enough faith in the Lord, if she is obedient and abandons that type of the work, the Lord will bless her immensely in all things, spiritual and temporal. I have a certainty that the Lord would protect her. I know that she will be able to do it.
The work is going great, I love Santa Maria, I really hope I finish my mission here!
Love,
Elder Rice
D&C 4:2
"Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day." (D&C 4:2)
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Como que bzot sta?
It has been a super nice week here in Santa Maria. This place is not like any other part of Cape Verde. There are hundreds of tourists and Europeans from all sorts of countries here it’s super weird ha-ha. I really hope that I finish my mission here, there is just so much work to do and I’m really starting to like it. I am loving my time here with Elder Welch, he is an awesome Elder, we are getting along super well.
The enemy (the devil) tried really hard this week to impede the work of the Lord. Obviously it didn’t work. On Sunday night, our investigator Jezidel had a dream (more of a nightmare), where the Devil appeared and told her that she shouldn’t follow this church and shouldn’t be baptized. It was like a threat. The only purpose of the Devil is to do everything to impede the work of the Lord, to take people away from the truth, so that they become as miserable as he. We told Jezidel that this dream was literally a proof that this is the true church. If this wasn’t the true church, the Devil wouldn’t try to take her away from it. She understood that, but she just felt super paranoid after the dream, especially when she was alone. She was worried that the devil would continue to make her feel like this after her baptism. As long as we are obedient, reading in the scriptures, and praying every day, the Holy Ghost will be our constant companion to counsel and comfort us and to give us peace. We promised that if she continues to keep the commandments, she would be safe.
Jezidel and Judith were baptized this Saturday. What a beautiful sight. We got to go to the beach and baptize them there. They were both overwhelmingly happy as they came out of the water, they couldn’t stop smiling. I felt by the power of the Holy Ghost that those ordinances were in fact performed by the power and authority of God. They both received the Holy Ghost yesterday, they are great. We are in a young branch of the church so we are going to do everything to train them to be leaders. They need to become saints.
We have encountered a fairly big problem. There are quite a few youth members here in the branch. I’m not exactly sure what the past Elders taught them, but many of them are not very converted to the gospel. They just show up to church to mess around, and they never participate. Unfortunately, these distractions and irreverence they make is taking an effect on the rest of the branch, on our recent converts and investigators. We are going house to house, member by member to strengthen their testimony of the restoration, and teach them specifically about reverence, so that they show a more profound respect for sacred things.
Also another fairly large obstacle we have encountered is our branch president. He was less active only a year ago and was called as the group leader, then the branch president. He is still a very young leader. He doesn’t really know what’s going on. His wife as well is not doing too well in the gospel. As the leader he has the keys over the spiritual and temporal well-being of the ward, the branch president must be a great example. Just as Captain Moroni who sought to prepare his people for the battle by preparing them spiritually. The leader must be a spiritual giant that can inspire, elevate and bless the members. His family must be the first priority to show the others how the gospel should be lived within the home. A leader must be full of faith and nothing doubting to lead his troops courageously to the battle. If we ever want to create something great here in Santa Maria, we must start with the Branch President. We have decided that we are going to teach his whole family all of the missionary lessons again to strengthen their testimony and live the gospel in the home.
On the bright side, we are having a lot of success with the less actives we are teaching. We had 3 less active members come back to church and another 3 that are progressing, that will surely be at church this next week.
We have a great vision for the branch of Santa Maria, to create strong leadership, to create saints and help the branch become self-sufficient. We are going to find, teach and baptize more Melchizedek Priesthood men. We are going to meet the church together frequently in meetings to create union. It won’t be easy, but with the strength of the Lord nothing is impossible.
Love,
Elder Rice
It has been a super nice week here in Santa Maria. This place is not like any other part of Cape Verde. There are hundreds of tourists and Europeans from all sorts of countries here it’s super weird ha-ha. I really hope that I finish my mission here, there is just so much work to do and I’m really starting to like it. I am loving my time here with Elder Welch, he is an awesome Elder, we are getting along super well.
The enemy (the devil) tried really hard this week to impede the work of the Lord. Obviously it didn’t work. On Sunday night, our investigator Jezidel had a dream (more of a nightmare), where the Devil appeared and told her that she shouldn’t follow this church and shouldn’t be baptized. It was like a threat. The only purpose of the Devil is to do everything to impede the work of the Lord, to take people away from the truth, so that they become as miserable as he. We told Jezidel that this dream was literally a proof that this is the true church. If this wasn’t the true church, the Devil wouldn’t try to take her away from it. She understood that, but she just felt super paranoid after the dream, especially when she was alone. She was worried that the devil would continue to make her feel like this after her baptism. As long as we are obedient, reading in the scriptures, and praying every day, the Holy Ghost will be our constant companion to counsel and comfort us and to give us peace. We promised that if she continues to keep the commandments, she would be safe.
Jezidel and Judith were baptized this Saturday. What a beautiful sight. We got to go to the beach and baptize them there. They were both overwhelmingly happy as they came out of the water, they couldn’t stop smiling. I felt by the power of the Holy Ghost that those ordinances were in fact performed by the power and authority of God. They both received the Holy Ghost yesterday, they are great. We are in a young branch of the church so we are going to do everything to train them to be leaders. They need to become saints.
We have encountered a fairly big problem. There are quite a few youth members here in the branch. I’m not exactly sure what the past Elders taught them, but many of them are not very converted to the gospel. They just show up to church to mess around, and they never participate. Unfortunately, these distractions and irreverence they make is taking an effect on the rest of the branch, on our recent converts and investigators. We are going house to house, member by member to strengthen their testimony of the restoration, and teach them specifically about reverence, so that they show a more profound respect for sacred things.
Also another fairly large obstacle we have encountered is our branch president. He was less active only a year ago and was called as the group leader, then the branch president. He is still a very young leader. He doesn’t really know what’s going on. His wife as well is not doing too well in the gospel. As the leader he has the keys over the spiritual and temporal well-being of the ward, the branch president must be a great example. Just as Captain Moroni who sought to prepare his people for the battle by preparing them spiritually. The leader must be a spiritual giant that can inspire, elevate and bless the members. His family must be the first priority to show the others how the gospel should be lived within the home. A leader must be full of faith and nothing doubting to lead his troops courageously to the battle. If we ever want to create something great here in Santa Maria, we must start with the Branch President. We have decided that we are going to teach his whole family all of the missionary lessons again to strengthen their testimony and live the gospel in the home.
On the bright side, we are having a lot of success with the less actives we are teaching. We had 3 less active members come back to church and another 3 that are progressing, that will surely be at church this next week.
We have a great vision for the branch of Santa Maria, to create strong leadership, to create saints and help the branch become self-sufficient. We are going to find, teach and baptize more Melchizedek Priesthood men. We are going to meet the church together frequently in meetings to create union. It won’t be easy, but with the strength of the Lord nothing is impossible.
Love,
Elder Rice
Monday, June 9, 2014
Hi:
This week was pretty interesting! On Monday we received a call that we would be going to a district leader´s meeting on the island of Sao Vicente, in Mindelo. I am serving in Sal. So on Wednesday afternoon we got on the plane and headed there. We stayed with the Zone Leaders of Sao Vicente, Elder Montes (who was in my MTC district) and Elder Nymeyer). The next day we went to a meeting with the Assistants and President Oliveira. It was a great meeting, we talked a lot about how our role as District Leaders is to inspire and elevate our districts. We also talked about making inspired goals and using our faith to achieve them. If we have prayed and received inspiration by the Holy Spirit of the things we must accomplish, surely these goals can be met. The question is if we have the faith sufficient to perform miracles and fulfill what the Lord has sent us to do.
Before we left to Sao Vicente we asked a few members to visit our investigators to see how they were doing and also we called them to follow up with their reading and praying. It went really well. We ended up coming back to Sal on Friday night with Elder Bruce (who was heading out to Sao Nicolau) and President and Sister Oliveira, who were coming to make a visit in Santa Maria.
This last week we were planning the baptism of Jezidel. She is 17. She was doing really well and keeping all the commandments and making great progress, but her mom wouldn’t let her be baptized. We fasted, we prayed, we talked to the Branch President to go and talk to her mom. We even went to her house at 11:00 am and waited for three hours to talk to her mom, but her mom was just avoiding us and didn’t want to talk to us. She knew what we wanted to talk about. We did everything we possibly could, but nothing seemed to work. On Saturday, President Oliveira called us and he said, ´´Elder, what are you going to do to help this girl that doesn’t have permission?´´ I told him everything we had done and told him that we were going to visit another time that day at 3:00 pm to see if we could find the mom. He said: ''Elder, before you leave, you need to read a few scriptures, pray and prepare yourself spiritually to get this done.'' The first story that came to my mind was Nephi and his brothers when they were commanded to get the brass plates. Getting the brass plates was not easy, not even close. When Laman went in for the first time, he was nearly killed. Nephi´s brothers wanted to quit and go back to their father in the desert. But Nephi knew that God doesn’t give an order without preparing a way. He told them that they wouldn’t go back to their father until the Lord´s order was fulfilled. So they tried again and they failed. Then Nephi said, ´´Let us be faithful, let us be strong, let us be as Moses who had such faith that he parted the Red Sea.´´ Compelled by the Spirit, not knowing what would happen, Nephi went in alone and succeeded. This story was perfect for our situation. If we just trust in the Spirit, believe and don’t doubt the Lord will prepare the way. On the way to Jezidell´s house I had no doubt that the Lord would prepare the way, I repeated in my head ´´Let us be as Moses, let us be faithful´´. We showed up sat in their living room waiting for Jezidel, literally five seconds after we sat down, Jezidel´s mom came out, she was dressed up in her work clothes and she was in a rush. This was the first time we have seen her. We asked if she had one minute to sit down, she said no, I have to go. Clearly the Lord put her in our path, we couldn’t fail. In a bit of shock and not knowing what to do, we said, can we walk with you to work? She hesitated a bit and didn’t say anything, we just got up and started walking with her. She was walking fast and was a bit surprised that we were going with her. We just started to converse with her about her life. We were super friendly and just became friends with her. We asked about her family, her background, where she was from, what is her work, what she likes to do and made it super natural. Soon enough we started talking about the importance of families and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ blesses families. We let her know that the reason we were teaching her daughter was to help her to follow Jesus Christ, stay far away from the temptations of world, keep the commandment and become a better person. She respected that. We told her that the only way for a person to follow Jesus Christ is through baptism, where we make a covenant with the Lord to always follow him. We asked her if she would let her daughter follow Jesus Christ, she said ´´Well, it is her choice, so if she wants to. “ The Lord truly prepared the way, the Spirit guided our words and now Jezidel will be baptized this week. Jezidel’s mom agreed to sign the baptismal form. That is a miracle.
At church this week we had 42 people. Our goal for the next coming weeks is to really strengthen the members, we are going to start training members every day.
We only had like three days in our area this week so we didn’t have too much happen, but this week, Jezidel and Judith will baptized. They are both progressing great, reading in the Book of Mormon every day and keeping the commandments, it’s gonna be super sweet!
Love,
Elder Rice
This week was pretty interesting! On Monday we received a call that we would be going to a district leader´s meeting on the island of Sao Vicente, in Mindelo. I am serving in Sal. So on Wednesday afternoon we got on the plane and headed there. We stayed with the Zone Leaders of Sao Vicente, Elder Montes (who was in my MTC district) and Elder Nymeyer). The next day we went to a meeting with the Assistants and President Oliveira. It was a great meeting, we talked a lot about how our role as District Leaders is to inspire and elevate our districts. We also talked about making inspired goals and using our faith to achieve them. If we have prayed and received inspiration by the Holy Spirit of the things we must accomplish, surely these goals can be met. The question is if we have the faith sufficient to perform miracles and fulfill what the Lord has sent us to do.
Before we left to Sao Vicente we asked a few members to visit our investigators to see how they were doing and also we called them to follow up with their reading and praying. It went really well. We ended up coming back to Sal on Friday night with Elder Bruce (who was heading out to Sao Nicolau) and President and Sister Oliveira, who were coming to make a visit in Santa Maria.
This last week we were planning the baptism of Jezidel. She is 17. She was doing really well and keeping all the commandments and making great progress, but her mom wouldn’t let her be baptized. We fasted, we prayed, we talked to the Branch President to go and talk to her mom. We even went to her house at 11:00 am and waited for three hours to talk to her mom, but her mom was just avoiding us and didn’t want to talk to us. She knew what we wanted to talk about. We did everything we possibly could, but nothing seemed to work. On Saturday, President Oliveira called us and he said, ´´Elder, what are you going to do to help this girl that doesn’t have permission?´´ I told him everything we had done and told him that we were going to visit another time that day at 3:00 pm to see if we could find the mom. He said: ''Elder, before you leave, you need to read a few scriptures, pray and prepare yourself spiritually to get this done.'' The first story that came to my mind was Nephi and his brothers when they were commanded to get the brass plates. Getting the brass plates was not easy, not even close. When Laman went in for the first time, he was nearly killed. Nephi´s brothers wanted to quit and go back to their father in the desert. But Nephi knew that God doesn’t give an order without preparing a way. He told them that they wouldn’t go back to their father until the Lord´s order was fulfilled. So they tried again and they failed. Then Nephi said, ´´Let us be faithful, let us be strong, let us be as Moses who had such faith that he parted the Red Sea.´´ Compelled by the Spirit, not knowing what would happen, Nephi went in alone and succeeded. This story was perfect for our situation. If we just trust in the Spirit, believe and don’t doubt the Lord will prepare the way. On the way to Jezidell´s house I had no doubt that the Lord would prepare the way, I repeated in my head ´´Let us be as Moses, let us be faithful´´. We showed up sat in their living room waiting for Jezidel, literally five seconds after we sat down, Jezidel´s mom came out, she was dressed up in her work clothes and she was in a rush. This was the first time we have seen her. We asked if she had one minute to sit down, she said no, I have to go. Clearly the Lord put her in our path, we couldn’t fail. In a bit of shock and not knowing what to do, we said, can we walk with you to work? She hesitated a bit and didn’t say anything, we just got up and started walking with her. She was walking fast and was a bit surprised that we were going with her. We just started to converse with her about her life. We were super friendly and just became friends with her. We asked about her family, her background, where she was from, what is her work, what she likes to do and made it super natural. Soon enough we started talking about the importance of families and how the Gospel of Jesus Christ blesses families. We let her know that the reason we were teaching her daughter was to help her to follow Jesus Christ, stay far away from the temptations of world, keep the commandment and become a better person. She respected that. We told her that the only way for a person to follow Jesus Christ is through baptism, where we make a covenant with the Lord to always follow him. We asked her if she would let her daughter follow Jesus Christ, she said ´´Well, it is her choice, so if she wants to. “ The Lord truly prepared the way, the Spirit guided our words and now Jezidel will be baptized this week. Jezidel’s mom agreed to sign the baptismal form. That is a miracle.
At church this week we had 42 people. Our goal for the next coming weeks is to really strengthen the members, we are going to start training members every day.
We only had like three days in our area this week so we didn’t have too much happen, but this week, Jezidel and Judith will baptized. They are both progressing great, reading in the Book of Mormon every day and keeping the commandments, it’s gonna be super sweet!
Love,
Elder Rice
Monday, June 2, 2014
Hey!!!
Santa Maria is INCREDIBLE!!! I love this place, i want to finish my mission here for sure!! Santa Maria is new just like Maio. There are a lot of things going on here that I learned how to do in Maio, so it should be really good. There have been a lot of missionaries that have passed here since it has opened and many people have been baptized but few have stayed active. We are here to create leaders. We are here to find the Lord’s elect, help them to develop their own testimony that helps them to endure to the end, independent of the missionaries that are here. One of the first priorities I made when I got here was to get know ALL of the members and their homes. That is so essential in missionary work, to gain the trust of the members. Know their kids, their family, their cat their dog, just get to know them and show them that you love them. We passed by and shared a short message with a scripture to help strengthen their faith. The results were instantaneous!! I can already see that the members have a greater trust in us and are more willing to help us in this great cause. Our vision is to help the members be more spiritually mature, to help the branch become, a family! That is what we did in Maio and it gave great results, we will do it again.
Here in Santa Maria I am serving with Elder Welch, he is from Orem, Utah. He is a super awesome and funny Elder. I have loved serving with him, I know we will work in union and have great success here. When I got here in the beginning we were a triple with Elder Otterstrom. Elder Otterstrom was my trainer in Fogo, we served together as zone leaders in Assomada and now we are serving together for the third time here in Santa Maria. I didn’t know that it was possible to serve three times together, but I have loved each time more than the other. Elder Otterstrom is a righteous, just, diligent and obedient missionary, he is a great example. We had a great week together. Yesterday we flew out to Praia, because his mission has ended and he will be heading back home. He had a great mission.
During the last two weeks (the week before I got here and the week I was here) we have found 36 new investigators. We have been talking to everyone and in the process we have found many people that are prepared for the Restored Gospel that are taking the steps of repentance to come unto Christ and preparing to be baptized.
We have been working with a woman named Judith. Judith is a single mom, with four kids living in a small house without lights or water. The only work she has is to sell alcohol and donuts. We taught her about the Word of Wisdom and about how harmful these substances are. She said that she would immediately stop selling the alcohol. What faith!! Not having a husband to provide money or any financial support, just knowing that it is a commandment of God that will bring numerous blessings. She is preparing to be baptized on the 14 of June. One day while we were teaching Judith, her sister, Shinea walked in the room, she was coming to pick up her kid. We offered for Shinea to sit down, even though we were at the end of our lesson. She sat just as we were talking about baptism. We invited her to be baptized when she knew that for herself that this was the only true church on the face of the earth, she agreed but she was a bit shaky. We invited her to church and she said, I know if it’s going work this week I have a lot of things to do. We taught her very simply the Day of the Lord is the day we have to worship God and nothing else. She said she would try. We passed by early on Sunday morning and saw that she was putting some washed clothes on the line to dry. We helped her and she managed to prepare on time to come to church. She came to church and LOVED it. We took Judith and Shinea to a film night yesterday and now they are both preparing to be baptized on the 14th of June.
Our baptismal goal for this week is Jezidel. Jezidel is 17 years old and she wants to be baptized, just that her mom will not let here. We had a super great lesson about 1 Nephi 3:7, that the Lord will never give us an order without preparing a way that it may be fulfilled. We testified that baptism is a commandment of God. We asked her if she believed that God would prepare a way for her to be baptized, she said ´´yes´´. Without a shadow of a doubt, we will get the moms permission and she will be baptized. As representatives of Jesus Christ, speaking by the power of the Holy Ghost, she will not have power to deny our words. We are going to talk to her mom, be her friend and figure this out.
At church this Sunday we had 43 people!!! What a blessing! We will never drop below 43 people attending church that is our goal. Each week we will bring someone new and continue to increase the frequency. I’m so excited to work here.
Love,
Elder Rice
Santa Maria is INCREDIBLE!!! I love this place, i want to finish my mission here for sure!! Santa Maria is new just like Maio. There are a lot of things going on here that I learned how to do in Maio, so it should be really good. There have been a lot of missionaries that have passed here since it has opened and many people have been baptized but few have stayed active. We are here to create leaders. We are here to find the Lord’s elect, help them to develop their own testimony that helps them to endure to the end, independent of the missionaries that are here. One of the first priorities I made when I got here was to get know ALL of the members and their homes. That is so essential in missionary work, to gain the trust of the members. Know their kids, their family, their cat their dog, just get to know them and show them that you love them. We passed by and shared a short message with a scripture to help strengthen their faith. The results were instantaneous!! I can already see that the members have a greater trust in us and are more willing to help us in this great cause. Our vision is to help the members be more spiritually mature, to help the branch become, a family! That is what we did in Maio and it gave great results, we will do it again.
Here in Santa Maria I am serving with Elder Welch, he is from Orem, Utah. He is a super awesome and funny Elder. I have loved serving with him, I know we will work in union and have great success here. When I got here in the beginning we were a triple with Elder Otterstrom. Elder Otterstrom was my trainer in Fogo, we served together as zone leaders in Assomada and now we are serving together for the third time here in Santa Maria. I didn’t know that it was possible to serve three times together, but I have loved each time more than the other. Elder Otterstrom is a righteous, just, diligent and obedient missionary, he is a great example. We had a great week together. Yesterday we flew out to Praia, because his mission has ended and he will be heading back home. He had a great mission.
During the last two weeks (the week before I got here and the week I was here) we have found 36 new investigators. We have been talking to everyone and in the process we have found many people that are prepared for the Restored Gospel that are taking the steps of repentance to come unto Christ and preparing to be baptized.
We have been working with a woman named Judith. Judith is a single mom, with four kids living in a small house without lights or water. The only work she has is to sell alcohol and donuts. We taught her about the Word of Wisdom and about how harmful these substances are. She said that she would immediately stop selling the alcohol. What faith!! Not having a husband to provide money or any financial support, just knowing that it is a commandment of God that will bring numerous blessings. She is preparing to be baptized on the 14 of June. One day while we were teaching Judith, her sister, Shinea walked in the room, she was coming to pick up her kid. We offered for Shinea to sit down, even though we were at the end of our lesson. She sat just as we were talking about baptism. We invited her to be baptized when she knew that for herself that this was the only true church on the face of the earth, she agreed but she was a bit shaky. We invited her to church and she said, I know if it’s going work this week I have a lot of things to do. We taught her very simply the Day of the Lord is the day we have to worship God and nothing else. She said she would try. We passed by early on Sunday morning and saw that she was putting some washed clothes on the line to dry. We helped her and she managed to prepare on time to come to church. She came to church and LOVED it. We took Judith and Shinea to a film night yesterday and now they are both preparing to be baptized on the 14th of June.
Our baptismal goal for this week is Jezidel. Jezidel is 17 years old and she wants to be baptized, just that her mom will not let here. We had a super great lesson about 1 Nephi 3:7, that the Lord will never give us an order without preparing a way that it may be fulfilled. We testified that baptism is a commandment of God. We asked her if she believed that God would prepare a way for her to be baptized, she said ´´yes´´. Without a shadow of a doubt, we will get the moms permission and she will be baptized. As representatives of Jesus Christ, speaking by the power of the Holy Ghost, she will not have power to deny our words. We are going to talk to her mom, be her friend and figure this out.
At church this Sunday we had 43 people!!! What a blessing! We will never drop below 43 people attending church that is our goal. Each week we will bring someone new and continue to increase the frequency. I’m so excited to work here.
Love,
Elder Rice
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