Highlights:
So I have found that transfering to
a new area after you were in your first for 6 months is not the easiest
transition in the world but we need to be grateful for any trial in our life
because we know that the Lord is just humbling us, bringing us low to shape us,
and build us up again into the person or missionary he needs us to be. So you
just have to find the blessings in everything :) Here are some highlights of
this week!
so I could prepare
- 1st Workshop! Our zone leader
asked me monday night what my workshop was for the next morning at zone
training and I was so shocked, but my lovely companion woke up with me at 5 the
next morning o I could prepare and although I was terrified to face a group of
missionaries that have been in the field a lot longer than me...the spirit
works miracles :) I'll talk more about that later!
-I got to see my mom!! (Don't freak
out) You call your trainer your mom (or dad) and she is in my zone now :)
- Our ward had an activity called
Family Day which was SO fun and was out in the street so a great opportunity to
talk to the nonmembers that were just watching or passed by.
- We went on splits with an RM in
our ward and a less active! That was the second time I haven't been with
missionary companion but it was really cool to learn from Sister Brooklyn for
that day. And engaging less actives in teaching with the missionaries we found
is SO helpful. Sister Cudiamat (became the comp of sister Barbante) did awesome
and she was at church the next day! Just needed a little reminder of how great
the gospel is :)
-RUNNING ON THE BEACH is my
favorite in the morning, even though all the dogs chase me and the people just
kind of stare...
Missionaries
can Laugh Too:
You
Know You're in the Philippines when...
Your companion eats chicken noodle
soup for breakfast even though it's like 500 degrees
Ilocano
/ Tagalog / English
anya ti araramidem / ano ang
ginagawa mo/ what are you doing?
Spiritual
Thought:
Relying on the spirit is one of the
biggest things I have learned on my mission. And not just listening to it but
having enough trust and courage to follow the promptings. I had a couple ideas
of what I would want to teach the zone in case I had to do a workshop (that
means teaching a training session at a zone meeting) but the morning of I felt
that I should teach on Christlike Attributes and how we need to develop them as
a missionary. I left all my other plans behind and went with it, then was so
shocked when Elder Smith (actually from Alta high school haha small world!)
gave the first workshop and said it was on Christlike Attributes too! At first
I got worried thinking I would give off a lame impresson of an STL when I like
repeated his workshop but actually they fit together perfectly. That must have
been what we needed to be reminded of as a zone. In following up with the
sisters on sunday night I found out the christlike attributes sheet we started
using have helped their companionship inventory, their kabahay (other
missionaries in their house) and their work. As I have evaluated myself as well
I found that qualities I thought were strengths are actually weaknesses and I have
SO much work to do in becoming like Christ. I know it can seem overwhelming to
be "perfect" but I also know it is a commandment. God gives no
commandments "unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for
them to accomplish the thing which he commandeth them" Christ taught the
manner of men we ought to be and it is even as HE is. I know if we learn grace
by grace, step by step, and day by day, because that's how Jesus Christ himself
learned, we truly can become like our older brother in our thoughts. words,
actions, and desires. The Christlike attributes are the most valuable thing we
can obtain in this life to prepare for the eternity.
Mahal ko kayong lahat!!!
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