2/17/25: Creolle, Portuguese, French and every language but Spanish

 Hey guys! We had a fun last week. It was a little wild, but it ended up all working out.

We had a baptism with a little 10 year old girl named Liliana a few days ago. Her mom is a semi-inactive member of the ward, but she really wanted to get baptised, so we helped her out and explained to the mom the importance of a covenant with God. They are reactivated and they are doing great now. The mom sent us a message after the baptism expressing her gratitude for our insistance on helping her come back to church and getting her daughter baptised. She said she feels very good about the decision of her daughter.

We also had zone conference this week and it was crazy getting everything worked out and helping out the mission president with his stuff. We ran 7am-9:30pm days the majority of the week doing stuff with him and the APs to help out the zone and local stakes. It was a good time.

The most interesting part of the week were some of our lessons we had tho. We have 2 hatian ladies in teaching that are interested in coming to church and learning more. One of them speaks Spanish pretty well, but the other basically only speaks portuguese as a second language after having lived in Brazil a few years before she came here. The dope part is that they brought their friend from Brazil who only speaks Portuguese, but she's super cool and understands us pretty well. It's fun cuz we've learned a little portuguese along the way and surprisingly we understand a solid 70-75% of what the ladies say to us. It's fun being in lessons where 5 different languages are spoken and or read in. The gift of tongues is true.

Scripture of the Week is Alma 60:23. Make sure to focus on cleaning what's inside and the outside will follow.

Anyway, that was what I wanted to share from the week. I hope y'all have a great one! Adios!

- Elder Allen

• Piedra de Izapa (the tree of life rock)

• Liliana's baptism

• A yaca fruit