Hello Lovely Family of
mine!!!!!
Once again we had a freaking
good week!!!! I'm am starting to wonder if that will change... hmm. Probably
not. It seems pretty consistent. So, this week was pretty spankin'
So probably one of my favorite
parts of the week was when Tom came to work with us!!! So we were teaching him
one day and after the lesson he said that he wanted to come work with us if he
could. We were just like, Um, Yeah! Ok!! So he did! Tom is the one that we
found about two weeks ago while we were looking for Andrew. So he came with us
and we had 3 killer lessons!!! The spirit was super strong!!! We explained to
him what a testimony was, and basically he told us that he had a testimony of
Joseph Smith and that God lives. What?!! That was sick! We asked him if he
wanted to share his testimony, and he said not this time, he wanted to see how
things went. But he wants to keep going with us whenever we go to that area,
and next time he wants to bear testimony. What?!?! Dang that's awesome! As we
walked him home after the lessons we cleared up a ton of stuff for him and now
he is super excited for his baptism!! Also he is a lot like Joel, so we are
gonna try and get the two of them to meet because they are gonna be really good
friends! And then they will get baptized together!!! The hard thing though, is
that Joel doesn't have a house any more, so we can't really get the two of them
to meet yet. Hopefully he will find a house this week. And he got a job in our
area! So that means that he is still most likely gonna be in our area!!!! We
are super excited for the two of them. Both of them want to be baptized, but
now we have to push their baptismal dates back because Tom was sick and didn't
come to church, and Joel couldn't come because of something to do with a
house.... I didn't really catch what it was, but he and his wife really want to
come to church. So that was awesome this week!
So, we teach this family named
the Favias. They are a super awesome family, and right before I got here three
of there girls got baptized. Now we are teaching them the new member
lessons.... They have a little sister that is probably 6... she bites. Hard. So
during the lesson she was sitting next to me on the couch and all the sudden
she bit my arm! She is worse than the mosquitoes! I got bitten by her 8 times
during the lesson! And when she sets her jaw in, there is no getting her off! I
woke up the next morning and still had a red mark from one of her bites! She is
fun, but when she starts biting..... look out! haha, they are a really awesome
family though. She is actually one of my favorite kids.... but.... yeah, that
was an amusing anecdote.
So unfortunately like... nobody
came to church this week. It was a sad day. Especially cause this week we can't
even blame the rain! So, we had one investigator show up. Sister Cristlyne. She
is a long term investigator waiting on marriage papers. This last week she got
her Birth Certificate I think, and then she just needs to actually go and get
her marriage papers, so she could be getting baptized this next month! She is
super Converted though. She is just as involved in the ward as everyone else. She
even has a calling kinda... how crazy is that! but ya, she says she is gonna
try to get that done this week, so we are super pumped!
Nanay Abiera, she is amazing.
All I am gonna say! Ok, not really. She is pretty much the epidamy (epitome) of what a
member missionary is. She is kind of a pioneer member in this area and she can
look at about half the ward and say, "She was my referral 20 years
ago!" Ya, she is kinda unreal. We are trying to reach another of her
referrals with her, but we are having a hard time catching them at home. She
gave us another referral two weeks ago that committed to baptism. But he got in
a tricey accident and has been in the hospital. Hopefully we can start teaching
him again this week. She is awesome! Apparently back in the day she was
studying very hard to become a nun when she started taking the lessons. Now she
is pretty much the best member I have ever met!
So they are going to start a
new branch up in San Felipe in a couple weeks and President says that when they
split the ward he is going to bring in new missionaries and split the area.
Which is going to be really awesome because San Felipe is a 45 minute jeepney
ride away, and this will give us more time to work in our other areas. So I am
super excited for that! This week we were going to have a half day mission with
the ward in our area, but it got canceled. So yesterday in Ward Council we got
it all set up for this week and we are now going to do a full day mission!
Basically we are going to visit every less active in Basud! There are a ton
that I have never even met so this is gonna be really good! Its gonna be weird
though because we are gonna be on splits for this. I am gonna be with one of
the members in the ward. That's gonna be super hard cause I don't know the area
Super well yet, and my Tagalog is still really bad. I'll be passable hopefully,
but its gonna be a killer awesome opportunity to grow! While we are doing this
half day mission the ZL's are going to go up to San Felipe with the Bishop to
find a meeting house for the new branch.
This week at Zone conference I will see Elder McMurtrey
again! He is one city away and in our zone but I haven't been able to see him
yet. But this week we have Zone Conference so I am gonna be able to see him! I
am super pumped! Then next Tuesday all of us newbies are going with our trainer
for some training at the mission home or something... So I should See Elder
McMurtrey again and Elder Tuitavake! I am pretty excited!
This last week a Super Market
opened in our area that should have real cheese! I am super pumped! I love
cheese! And we have potatoes, so we are gonna try baked potatoes in our toaster
oven... I love the food here, but I wouldn't mind eating a baked potato again
if we had some cheese!
Sadly, Andrew flew back to America
this week. Hopefully he will find some more missionaries there. The good news
is that his mom is still here and we can teach her. And because of him we found
Tom and we have a potential investigator down the street that we got to talk to
because of him, and one behind him because of Tom, and we only know Tom because
of Andrew! So basically, it is sad that he is leaving, but he kind of led us to
a ton of other people!!!
Alright, well, I could go on
forever, but I'll stop here. I love you all so so so so so so soooo super duper
much! And I hope you have a fantastic week! Peace Out!
Oh, P.S. That movie quote at the top is from While You Were
Sleeping. The reason being for this quote, my shoes got completely soaked,
which was totally awesome cause that means that it was raining, and I enjoy the
rain, but dry shoes are always a nice thing.
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