Kamusta pamiliya ko?!
This week has been awesome, its gone by a bit slower then all of the other weeks, and I suppose my focus wasnt quite where it should be. But it is sooo hard to pay attention in class when you know that the next week you'd be in the philippines. But no this week was soooo cool, Thanksgiving was different, but amazing, the kept us busy and amused.
First of all monday was pretty boring, wrapped up our last lesson with Roy, and Willie, told him that we were getting transefered to Cauayan City and theyd be getting new missionaries. Oh I dont know if I told you this last email, but Willie is going to get baptised and is keeping up on allll of our commitments. Ha when we asked him to go to church he was like 'Ya, ummmm can I bring my family" we were like "Heck Ya!!" well in missionarie talk and in tagalog. But its nice to know that we will be teaching real investagators sooon. I know that it will take me a while to be able to understand them, and to be able to talk very well. But I am soooo excited to just get there, I wanna go talk to all the Filipinos even if all I can say is Kamusta Missionaro po ako para sa Ang simbahan ni JesuCristo ng mga Banal ng mga Huling Araw. and then let my comp take over hahaha. ohh by the way you may be wondering this to ng is pronounced nung and mga is pronounced munga mga pluralized things and ang ng sa put focus on a specific word...dependa on whether you want actor object or location focus...way diff from english...astig ito (its awesome)
Anyway to the good stuff, First of all we got TWO apostals this week!! Glad I was here over thanksgiving to here both of them. First one was on Tuesday and it was Elder Christofferson. That was most def the best talk I have ever heard live! It was awesome, he said that he had three things that he wished he had done differently 1. Remembered the end result, sometimes we get sooo caught up in doing the work that we forget the people and the conversion and just think about the #'s, soo you know we are still working hard, but we cant be sooo focused on the work that we forget about the people, we go out for CONVERT baptisms, not just baptism, its one thing to be baptised its another to be convert, conversion is a change of heart, and action and desire, without that a baptism alone will not keep one in the church. 2. He said that we need to be willing to aline our will with Gods. And not be afraid when we ask "What would you have me do, or be?" Cause when we ask God that sincerely we are becoming the type of person he wants us to become, Elder C. asked Why would we be afraid to put ourselves in the Lords Hands? Jesus only did the things Father wanted, we can do the same it will be harder for us and we will fail sometimes, but we can still do it! 3. We need the trust of the Members, that doesnt mean being buddy buddy with them but it means having their trust that we can teach people effectily and that we are willing to do whatever it takes to bring others to Christ. He said if the Members help us then we will get more referals and more baptisms. And we will be able to get the ward in on helping the missionary work....He also said a few specific things I liked like "Walk with him and he will sustain you." I tell you as one who knows, he knows you.¨ I dont know I really liked those two quotes that he said.
Thanksgiving was great, we had a morning Devo on thursday and the main speaker was Elder Nelson of the 12. He was pretty good! haha, he basically talked about giving thanks. Honestly it was a very very good talk and spiritual, but alot of it was stories and interesting facts, like the Literal transtlation for hallauha is ¨Praise to the Great Jehovah¨. He talked about how the russia was opened up to the missionaries and it was pretty amazing, showed how after all we can do the Lord will go to work, and make up for what we cant do.
The rest of thanksgiving was pretty good to, after the devo we had thanksgiving lunch, which obviously not as good as home, but it was still pretty good, the turkey was very good. After that we had a service project where we made first aid kits that are going to honduras. Then we watched the movie 17 micricals. So overall it was a very good day!
Now its on to packign and leaving for the Philippines tomorrow. I very excited and know it will be hard, but thats okay, hard things are good
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