sorry.
we have 2 more investigators on date!
Hope all is well things are going good here.
Have a good week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Translator Status
This week came and went pretty quickly honestly
not much to tell.
One of our Skype translation investigators is doing awesome! He is preparing to be baptized at the end of the month! We are super excited for him and he is still as excited as ever to do some missionary work himself! He wants to share everything he knows about The Church with everyone. Especially those people moving to Turkey. He is a super cool guy. I love being able to teach him and help him progress.
The other person we are teaching over skype is moving to Toronto!!! YESSSSSS super excited to be able to meet her and teach her in person! She is doing great, and is excited to come here!
We also have started teaching a great family. Its a mom and her 2 kids. They have started coming to sports night and have really started to dive into the gospel. They are really looking to know how they can receive real answers and how they can act in faith.Ssuper excited for them.
We also have been working with a great family who is working towards going to the temple in September!!!! They are extremely excited. Since they were baptized a couple years ago they haven't been close enough to a temple to be able to attend so they are excited to go for the first time in their lives.
It is truly amazing to see the progress and dedication of this family. They have extremely strong testimonies and a true dedication to the Gospel despite the dangers of their current situation.
love you all! hope you have a great week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
not much to tell.
One of our Skype translation investigators is doing awesome! He is preparing to be baptized at the end of the month! We are super excited for him and he is still as excited as ever to do some missionary work himself! He wants to share everything he knows about The Church with everyone. Especially those people moving to Turkey. He is a super cool guy. I love being able to teach him and help him progress.
The other person we are teaching over skype is moving to Toronto!!! YESSSSSS super excited to be able to meet her and teach her in person! She is doing great, and is excited to come here!
We also have started teaching a great family. Its a mom and her 2 kids. They have started coming to sports night and have really started to dive into the gospel. They are really looking to know how they can receive real answers and how they can act in faith.Ssuper excited for them.
We also have been working with a great family who is working towards going to the temple in September!!!! They are extremely excited. Since they were baptized a couple years ago they haven't been close enough to a temple to be able to attend so they are excited to go for the first time in their lives.
It is truly amazing to see the progress and dedication of this family. They have extremely strong testimonies and a true dedication to the Gospel despite the dangers of their current situation.
love you all! hope you have a great week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
Tirgan Festival
As of right now, our investigators are doing amazing! If everything goes well we will have another Skype baptism in 2 weeks! Super excited for that!! And we have some other investigators that are ready to be baptized and we told them they can but it would be better and more special if they did it as a family so she is willing to wait for a bit.
Nothing new. We did get to go to the biggest Persian festival outside of Iran though! There were like 200,000 Persian people there! There was a pretty famous Iranian music artist and everything, it only happens once every 2 years. Its called Tirgan look it up! Also look up Shanbe Zade he is the artist, listen to one of his songs.
ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
Nothing new. We did get to go to the biggest Persian festival outside of Iran though! There were like 200,000 Persian people there! There was a pretty famous Iranian music artist and everything, it only happens once every 2 years. Its called Tirgan look it up! Also look up Shanbe Zade he is the artist, listen to one of his songs.
ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
1 Year to Come
Happy Pioneer Day!
I'll be hitting my hump day on Thursday. Weird! time is flying, no way of stopping it.
This week has been great. we have a lot of great investigators coming out of the woodwork and things seem to be taking off here!
One investigator has accepted a baptismal date of August 19th! He is doing awesome and has expressed to us his desire to share the gospel with others the same way we are with him. He told us how much he disliked people talking bad about the Mormons and that we wants to learn as much as he can from us so he can go tell and show everyone else that they are wrong and that the Church Of Jesus Christ is the true church of God.
I'll be hitting my hump day on Thursday. Weird! time is flying, no way of stopping it.
This week has been great. we have a lot of great investigators coming out of the woodwork and things seem to be taking off here!
One investigator has accepted a baptismal date of August 19th! He is doing awesome and has expressed to us his desire to share the gospel with others the same way we are with him. He told us how much he disliked people talking bad about the Mormons and that we wants to learn as much as he can from us so he can go tell and show everyone else that they are wrong and that the Church Of Jesus Christ is the true church of God.
Another is having a hard time accepting that she can't be baptized right now, its a hard situation as she knows the Church is true and she has been taught everything and now is being re-taught everything. The only problem is that she doesn't have a permanent residency here in Canada or in any other country other than Iran... but she is strong and enduring and is even doing some great missionary work right now.
Our other is doing awesome! Reading 3-4 pages of the book of Mormon every night and feels amazing as he prays. And his only question right now is "why are we here." We hope to help him take off pretty soon!
We have two freshly found investigators who learned about the church through a friend in LA and now they won't go to any church other than the Mormon church. More to come on them next week.
We have been hitting the pavement hard and have been seeing miracles.
Sorry its a short email.
Have a great week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
Our other is doing awesome! Reading 3-4 pages of the book of Mormon every night and feels amazing as he prays. And his only question right now is "why are we here." We hope to help him take off pretty soon!
We have two freshly found investigators who learned about the church through a friend in LA and now they won't go to any church other than the Mormon church. More to come on them next week.
We have been hitting the pavement hard and have been seeing miracles.
Sorry its a short email.
Have a great week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Montreal, Taiwan and LA
We also had a super cool experience yesterday! We had a good church meeting with one of our investigators who speaks no English so it was like 3 hours of translation........ pretty big headache to be honest, this was my first time doing 100% of the translation. After church we went home to do our studies but Brother Amato from our bishopric called us and told us that there was a Persian family that showed up at church! So we talked to them over the phone and hustled our behinds over to the church and talked to them! They lived in LA for about 5 months and over there they met a couple Christian Iranians and one of them was a Mormon! Apparently this guy had a huge impact on the wife. When they came here the husband offered to go to any of the other Christian churches but she said "no, I only want to go to the Mormon church." so 10 months later they found our church and now they will be coming to church with us next week!!!! super excited for that!
gotta go for now....
but things we did
biked to the lakeshore (downtown Toronto)
Skyped in Montreal and Taiwan
met the new family I told you about.
love you!!!!!!!!
ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
Monday, July 10, 2017
I Love the Media!
Hey all
So here's the deal. When you are teaching people from the middle east, it's pretty uncommon to receive media referrals. I have been here in Toronto for about 11 months and I have been able to get 5 or 6. And 2 of those were duds. In the last 2 weeks we have gotten 3 media referrals and we are now teaching them all. One is here in Toronto, one is in Montreal, and the other is in Taiwan. WHAT.
Other than that we have been invited by our mission president to go out of our way and talk to every single person we see. I'll tell you what, we have seen loads of blessings from it. Yesterday we talked to a guy who gave us a referral for his buddy, address and all. Then like 30 minutes later we ran into this guys buddy while he was delivering a guy a pizza and he he was super nice, gave us his number and wants to help us find more people to teach so he is going to send us a list of people that we can go contact!
We have been bouncing around from appointment to appointment all week, busy, busy!
Welp gotta get going. Hope you all have a good week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
So here's the deal. When you are teaching people from the middle east, it's pretty uncommon to receive media referrals. I have been here in Toronto for about 11 months and I have been able to get 5 or 6. And 2 of those were duds. In the last 2 weeks we have gotten 3 media referrals and we are now teaching them all. One is here in Toronto, one is in Montreal, and the other is in Taiwan. WHAT.
Other than that we have been invited by our mission president to go out of our way and talk to every single person we see. I'll tell you what, we have seen loads of blessings from it. Yesterday we talked to a guy who gave us a referral for his buddy, address and all. Then like 30 minutes later we ran into this guys buddy while he was delivering a guy a pizza and he he was super nice, gave us his number and wants to help us find more people to teach so he is going to send us a list of people that we can go contact!
We have been bouncing around from appointment to appointment all week, busy, busy!
Welp gotta get going. Hope you all have a good week!
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ارشد جک باکر
Elder Jack Bakker
11 Months and July 4th
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| Rabbit by the entrance to our apartment |
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| We made ground meat Kabob |
all is well here in the north.
Happy 4th!
This week we celebrated Canada day which is a huge hype here. They celebrate for like 3 days straight. Pretty nuts, and when anyone finds out we are American they just rip into us a bit hahah. super funny, when the people we meet on the street just take jabs at the states.
Anyways 2 pretty cool things happened this week!
First, we have been asked by our mission president to keep our prime proselyting time open (6pm-9pm) and if we have any meal appointments either try to reschedule them or make them, more effective by bringing an investigator. On Wednesday the Metcalf's wanted to feed us at 7pm so we told them about what President Shields asked us to do and they said that we could invite an investigator! We invited one, an ESL student who we recently started teaching and he accepted. We went over had a nice BBQ meal and talked about the Plan of Salvation and a bit about prophets! Super cool experience, Elder Dixon and I didn't say much during the actual lesson because Brother Metcalf was just bearing strong testimony. After the lesson our investigator expressed to us how important family is to him and that he really loves how important the family is to us.
The second cool experience is that we got a MEDIA REFERRAL holy cow this was amazing. I have only gotten like 4 media referrals my whole mission and out of those I've only met with 2. But this guy was awesome. He has been reading about the story of Joseph Smith online and requested us to come give him a Book of Mormon. He is a movie maker and was telling us that the Samuel the Lamanite picture looks like a scene on a set the he did for a film about Solomon. It was super cool. and now we are going back sometime this week! :)
Well I hope everyone has a good week!
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Elder Jack Bakker
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