Friends and Family,
Week 5 of the transfer here in Daytona
Beach is complete. It's crazy
looking back and thinking it was just 5
weeks ago when Elder Crismon
and I first started to be companions.
We've really bonded and
basically became brothers. Definitely a
fun transfer! We are both
hoping we stay here in Daytona Beach for
another transfer. It's very
possible, but I guess we will find out
Saturday. If I stay here, that
will be 6 months here in Daytona. I
wouldn't be mad at all! I'm
convinced that this is the Promise Land
inside the Promise Land.
So there were a lot of good times that
happened this week that I'll
always remember. For this email, I think
it would be fun to just share
specific experiences.
On Tuesday, we are teaching a recent
convert named Ivet (she likes us
to call her "Abuela.") to get
an idea of Abuela, she is a 4'10"
Hispanic lady that absolutely loves the
missionaries. Every time we
are over there, she feeds us beans and
rice. It's pretty awesome. She
has less than 20 dollars a month after
paying her bills, and continues
to insist on feeding us. She is totally
devoted. She says it "brings
her blessings of Joy." How cool is
that. Anyway, we have been meeting
with her to prepare her to go to the
Temple. She was almost there and
wanted to meet with the bishop for an
interview the following day. The
following day, when we went to the
church to see how the interview
went, she was trying so hard not to cry
when she saw us. She said she
needed to talk with us and ended up
breaking down. She told us she
just couldn't pay that much tithing, and
it would put her on the
streets of she did. It honestly broke
our hearts hearing it. After
talking with her more this week, she is
going to put it to the test.
She has so much faith! It will be great
to see how this plays out.
This week we found a new less active
family to teach named the
Mulin's... It's a crazy home to say the
least. For a profession, they
breed small rodents and specifically
Sugar Gliders. (See picture
below) A long time ago, they were
offended by another member in the
ward. We are excited to work with them
and to help them come back into
the fold.
Saturday we had "Feeding the
Homeless." Again, this was a fun
experience. One homeless man told me
"I was the freshest white guy
he's seen all day." What a
compliment, what a compliment. It
definitely puts things into perspective.
A funny story for the week: BYU's
football team... Hahahha no but we
went knocking for a little bit last week
and Elder Crismon being the
goofball he is, was singing "Come
Come Ye Saints" meanwhile, and I was
in the background doing some type of
dancing with my hands. The door
opened and we stopped so quickly and
just stared at this lady. It was
so silent you could hear a gator in the
pond behind us.... And I don't
even know if they make a noise, but you
could have heard it then.
Luckily, this Saint of a lady just
laughed it off and ended up wanting
us to come back again. We were in awe!
He spirit of our beautiful
performance must have touched that
lady's heart... Or something like
that. Hahah it was pretty awesome.
We also found this one guy named Louie.
He was just one humble dude
walking out of Walmart while we were
walking in. He said he's seen
missionaries before when he lived over
in Louisiana, and has always
wanted to meet, but they never talked
with him. How cool is that?!
Definitely a miracle. We are looking
forward to meet g with him!
Another great experience this week was
the beach play this morning!
This is two in two weeks!! We were
pretty lucky for this to happen.
This hardly ever happens because
district are only able to go once
every 4 months. What a blessing they
ended up falling on back to back
weeks :) there are some pictures below!
It was a fun week this week and we are
seeing some great progress. We
are looking forward to this upcoming
week and the miracles it will
entail. A big thanks for all the support
with emails, letters, and
prayers sent my way.
Much Love,
-Elder Doman
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