Hakuna matata! What a wonderful phrase!
Anyways, sorry, I am singing lion king in my head right
now....
How is my wonderfully beautiful family on this fine Monday
morning?!?! I hope you are doing as well as me. But, that's doubtful! Oh yes, it
was a fantastic week for me! Our week didn't look as good on paper as it did
last week, but it was just as good if not better!
So first of all, Tuesday was fantastic because we had
Trainers Training. Which means I saw my comps from the MTC! Such a good day! It
was so good to see them. It was a very good meeting and it was a very nice time
seeing my comps. Elder Tuitavake is on the other side of the mission from me,
so that is the only time for a very long time I will see him again, but it was
a good call! Unfortunately, I left my journal at home again! So.... yeah, I'll
do my best to remember the week.
First off, This morning. The Assistant Ward Mission Leader
in our ward is a returned missionary. He is a total stud, just got back from
Cali. So this morning we played some ping pong with him for fun. What I was
unaware of, is that he is pretty much a ping pong champ. Ping pong is the sport
over here! So, I am okay at ping pong, but he was the Bicol Region
Representative for Ping Pong... Basically, he is way good. I played him this
morning..... I didn't win. haha, yeah, I was actually keeping up with him
really well for a long time, and then he spanked me... My comp is actually
really good too. He beat me. That one was a lot closer, but... these guys are
legit!!! You would have that the Filipino was doing some sort of MMA combat
fighting the way he jumped around with his paddle! That was some pretty salty
stuff! Anywho, I have been humbled...
So the best part of this week, is that we found an AMAZING
family!!!! The mom is a member. The father has a WoW problem, and he and the kids are Catholic. Luckily for us, they live right
next to us, so we can visit them any day of the week. So we visited them three
times this week. And they were AWESOME lessons!!!!! Sooo good! Basically, they
all have baptismal dates, came to church yesterday, and they are just super
awesome. Actually, the girls asked us if they could be baptized before we even
challenged them! It was way sick! They are always super excited to see us! They
are my favorite!
So yesterday, as well as the Santillan (the family
previously mentioned), Tom came to church again! He is progressing very nicely
to baptism. The problem is, he is only visiting his sister, and in a month-ish,
he is gonna be heading home... He is making good progress, and he still comes
and teaches with us!!!
So, apparently there is this girl that has been coming to
church for sometime that we never knew about. She is the maid of one of the
sisters in the ward and is interested in the church. So we taught her this
week. Visiting them is their grandpa. He is WAY COOL!!!!! Basically, he is a
killer artist! He sells his pictures for thousands of dollars! and he actually
has a picture of Christ hanging in Salt Lake somewhere. He is a member. And
tattooed head to foot. But he is way cool. And super funny! Josh needs to meet
this man, that's all I could think about as I looked at his pictures. They were
way cool!
We also went on splits with the ZL's this week. They are way
cool! I went with Elder Maroket to his area. It was way cool. Hard, because he
is Filipino and didn't translate or anything for me. But I am getting to the
point where I can pretty much understand what is going on. I miss lots of
words, but usually I know what's going on. It was way fun to teach with him. He
is a really good teacher and its always fun to learn from someone like him! We
were teaching this LA family. Basically the mother finally told us that when
they were baptized her husband prayed about the BoM, but she didn't. He was the
one that received the answer, she didn't. And basically she struggles a lot
with her testimony, but no matter how much we tried to get her to read the BoM
and pray about it, she was just getting offended saying that we were doubting
her testimony, which got me really confused, because the whole problem we were
trying to fix was her doubting her testimony... Yeah.... she didn't make any
sense and I don't know enough Tagalog to help that make sense to her.
Sooooo, yeah, lots of really good stuff happened this week,
but I don't remember all of it cause wala journal. Sorry, it is slightly
disappointing...
Hmmm, I started reading a little from Jesus the Christ this
week... Its way good!!!
Umm.... Oh yeah! So last week I said that there is this
awesome lady here, Nanay Abiera. Well, I was talking to her this week, she has
has over 175 referral baptisms!!!! She is so unreal! She has a new referral for
us like, every week or two. And most of her referrals lead to baptisms. She is
way cool. She was studying to be a nun when she found the church. Now she is
the best member missionary I know. The missionaries that baptized her had NO
IDEA really what exactly they were doing. We could easily start a ward with all
the people she has referred to baptism. Easily. Yeah, anyways, she is just my
daily dose of inspiration!
Alright, gotta run! Mahal Ko kayo! Kita Kitz! Peace Out!
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