February 11, 2013

Well this week has been long! We have been working really hard this week looking for new investigators. We have kind of stopped progressing with our investigators right now so it is sad but we need to use our time effectively for people who are ready. So our search started this week and we are working really hard to get the ones who are ready to recieve the gospel to get to baptism. It is hard though because they believe everything, they just won't go to church! I really just want to drag them down with me, but where is the Trial of their Faith? Anyways we call them the Loyola Group, because it started with they Loyola couple and people branched up from them so we have 4 of them we teach all at once. They love our messages and know that they are true, they also have a lot of addictions and they are so poor it is hard for them to get money to go. Anyways though because they didn't make it to church yesterday we have to talk to them and maybe drop them. Anyways hopefully they will turn around. Also our other progressing investiagtor is an old man named Daniel Balosa. He loves hearing our message, but we havent really pushed him so hopefuly we can get him to make some commitments this week. Besides that we just have been getting referrals and trying to contact new people. Well I am struggling way hard here though. Language barrier makes fulfilling my purpose kind of difficult. I just feel useless out here. I am working hard and Trying my best and hopefully things will start going better. Anyways though on P days we go hiking a ton. It is tiring but here are some pics of the PHILIPPINES! mostly the beautiful parts! I wish I had better stories, but things are a blur. Weird thing i guess, A transvestite was drunk and asked to me profane questions.... super gross... super awkward... i wanted to punch himher. Haha there are a lot of those here... Also hmm... oh our ward mission leader lost his voice. Haha so at our correlation meeting we could not keep a straight face!! Haha He talked in his high falseto voice about things in the ward.. and we just laughed everytime he said anything. Haha He is this bigger gruffer guy haha so it was super funny!. Well anyways the internet is super slow so no pictures today! Sorry!! LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES!