February 18, 2013

Well this week has been pretty sweet. I finally have a like a firm grip of things and I don't feel so hopeless and useless. This week was pretty cool. We taught a lot of new people and we found a lot of new people too. My trainer Elder Hibbert has been letting me teach more, I finally told him I am bored as crap during lessons when I just sit there. So I get to say things and sometimes it comes out really bad, sometimes even False Doctrine haha. But, I am talking and I am happy! I hate when I can't talk!! haha I need to talk all the time.Anyways though we had some good experiences this week. We have been really focusing on finding new investigators, because all the potential's in our area straight up wont talk to us anymore. So we prayerfully went around this week looking for them. It has been sweet!! We had a day where all of our appointments punted us! So we had all day just to go street contacting. We met one person in a wheel chair, he told us he knew of us. We asked him how and he said his brother is a Mormon. He told us how he wanted to find a new religion because Catholicism was beginning to feel old and not really doing things for him. So we talked to him and we plan to go see him later. Also we were walking around in this other area. Haha someone yelled out at us and usually when people yell out to us they are just trying to heckle with my trainer who is white. It is kind of funny because they call everyone here JOE. they say HEY JOE! to get white peoples attention. It is a reference to the GI Joes that were here earlier haha. Anyways we usually ignore it but we tried this one girl who called out to us just to see what might happen. She straight up told us, I want you to teach me because my baby just passed away. Wow .. it is seriously strange to me how people have been prepared, it may be hard at times, but people seriously don't just do that!! haha But she seems ready and we have gone to teach her but she has been busy so hopefully we will get our foot in the door next time. Amyways besides that our investigators are progressing. We had 4 baptismal dates set up for March 16. It is hard though because they have to get to church, and 2 of our investigators made it yesterday. We will have to reschedule some, but it is amazing to see them change. We taught a lesson to 2 of them about Thomas S. Monson. Nanay Ester is her name and she was not a believer because he doesn't have a book of scriptures. We asked her to Pray about it and she seemed pretty stubborn that she wouldn't. When we came back and asked her how it went, she said she feels good about it and that she supports the Prophet. We were happy with that and see that she is slowly but surely progressing. Nanay Ester, and Bro. Teddy seem the most ready for baptism so hopefully they will give up smoking and drinking and come to church! Also we teach a man named Bro. Balosa. We asked him to be baptized this week and holy moly he gave us the answer we love to hear! It is funny because he didn't seem very, receptive to a lot of our lessons. I came to find out he as been really receptive and when we asked him to be baptized it was great!! He bore his testimony to us on how he feels this Church is true and right for him!! I am excited and praying really hard that they will make it to church! Anyways we are working really hard here. It is super hot and I am sweating every second I swear! But it is ok because at the end of the day I am still Alive haha! We have had a lot of fun times this week. Some drunk guy tried to kiss my companion after he came up to us really drunk asking us to help him change his life haha. He wasn;t in our area so we referred him to someone else. Also I got to do fun things like open a coconut with a machete and hold a chicken!! Overall the Philippines is a hard place to live but it is full of fun times and adventures! We have a lot of fun times here and my companion and our roommates make it fun!! Hopefully it continues on this way!! Well I love this work and I know it's true. Nothing makes more sense to me than the Gospel right now. I wish for everyone to just hear the 1st lesson once. It actually makes a lot of sense!! haha Well God loves me and loves everyone!! also the Book of Mormon is true!! Which makes Joseph Smith a True Prophet! I teach that everyday and it never sounds less true to me, it actually makes more sense and has way more truth now than it has ever. Well Anyways fun times ahead so bye bye