Kumusta Pamiliya ko,
Well what can I say another great week, we had a lot success...did get punted a unusal amount which always is the pits, but okay lang! We went on splits twice this week because Elder Alfonso had a training meeting in cauayan and so I went on splits with the other district leaders companion, we did some good work, his name is Elder Andaya..he was kinda lazy, didnt do personal study, and listened to music...I didn't know what to do. So I just studied. It was good to get in 2 hours of Personal study cause we didn't do comp study either....im glad to have elder alfonso as a comp he is great...but I also have bad news there too. Yesterday President Carlos called us and said he wanted to talk to Elder Alfonso on pday so we went up to cauayan earlier and they talked and it turns out that some companionship in the mission isn't getting along and if they get emergancy transfered, one of the elders from there will come here and elder alfonso will get transfered out...I dont want that to happen, we are going good right now and I dont want something dumb like that happening. Anyways I also had splits on Friday with Elder Linellel he is newer then me so that was fun, having a couple of new missionaries, neither good at tagalog or teaching working together haha it was fun we still did good work and stuff. Our investigators we confused as why there are so many different elders haha.
Anyway on to important stuff like the baptism of Tatay Balagbagan, it went through Tatay is finally baptized after 1 1/2 years of investigating! He finally quit alcohol and cigerettes and was worthy for binyag! The baptism was great, he was definatly ready, for it, when he came out he was smiling and he was happy, its cool to see people after baptisms they look different. His testimony was great he was nervous earlier didnt know what to say daw. But his testimony was great, said he was happy to be baptized into the True Church, and that he knows the Church is true and stuff like that! Afterwards I was talking to him and he said that he just said whatever came into his mind! haha! We taught him about the Priesthood yesterday, he said he didnt quite understand so we gave him some reading in the D.O.C. to clarify, he is great with his reading, he started the book of Mormon 2 weeks ago and is already to Mosiah! And keep in mind that the tagalog book of mormon is longer then in English by 200 pages! He is loving it when ever we ask him about it he says he enjoys it and knows its true and always reads as soon as he wakes up in the morning, Nanay is to 2nd Nephi 19ish she says she reads a Chapter everynight and then prays and goes to bed! They are both doing great and tatay said he wants to go to the Temple in a year.
Tatay Pagbilaw I dont think I have told you about him yet, he is this old Branch President that took out his name about 6 years ago cause he was mad with the leadership in Baluarte and he was so mad he took out his name. We have been visiting him for a while, and on friday he was like "Elders can I open up to you," we were like ya of course. He said he really really wanted to return he felt horrible for leaving, he took alot of people with him, and he knows the Church is true still, he was just mad and let his emotions get carried away. He wants us to re teach him and he wants to come back to church and he wants to be re baptized. We told him that we could definatly help, we are gonna start teaching him the lessons, find a friend for him, cause he is afraid of coming back to Church cause he is afraid that the members there wont accept him after all he did. We've talked to people about it in the ward trying to get as much support for him as possible. He hopes that his family will return with him and that his son will still go on a mission. So all of his intentions are right its now just the long process, unless I stay here for a while longer, he probably wont be baptized while I am here...but we are gonna get him started on the way there.
Vincent is great still, he really understood the need for Prophets and he understood everything in the Saviors Earthly minsitry and that the true church needs Prophets, authority and Revelation to be true. He really wants to be baptized, but he still has a long way there, needs marriage and to quit smoking. Said he wants a great wedding celebration so their date is in like a year so they can save money and have a good Celebration..we are gonna try to talk him out of that and just have a simple Free wedding at the Church! Bishop can totally to the ceremony too.
Sarah, we continue to have good lessons with her and she continues to not come to Church! So her progression has hit a wall!!! This may not be the right time for her in her life, she is super busy and the Church is on the bottem of her list it seems. Only so much we can do. I'm sure in the future she will accept the gospel and stuff, if its not now!
We have been having some really solid lessons with less actives, but they still havent been coming to Church!! Its super frustrating...its like what else do we need to do to get them where they need to be!
Well thats about all that happened this week we had somegreat times sorry thats it I am running out of time.
Mahal ko kayo
Elder James
p.s. sorry no pics, next week na lang
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