Highlights:
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| We took district family pictures before Elder Decosta got transferred to Baguio |
I
can't remember if there is a lot to say this week or not much...they are just
so fast and blurry haha
We had MLC again this
week and just as I got there the new Trainers of the batch coming in where
leaving aanndd I SAW SISTER BERRY!! My beloved anak (child) is training so now
I have an apo! (grandchild) and My nanay (mom or trainer) is training again as
well so I have a sister too. That's how family trees go in mission life.
Pretty cool experience
this week but the story starts a couple months ago. I was jogging on the beach
in the morning and really wanted to just "be alone" cause thats how I
like jogging (even though my comp was there too haha) anyways I had this way
strong impression to talk to this family playing there. So I got over myself
and talked to them. Long story short last week I saw her name in the phone and
texted her- she said she cried cause we still remembered them and was excited
for us to come to their house- we brought the Ortega family to come teach with
us. BOOM she felt the holy ghost so strong she cried again and didn't know why
she got goose bumps as soon as I started talking in the lesson- then she came
to church (early- that's unheard of) and told me she will start saving every
week to pay for their transportation to church because it feels so good there.
THE LORD PREPARES PEOPLE! Her name is Hazel. Please pray for the Assistente
family :)
We taught the
Villanueva couple the Word of Wisdom and they will have to give up coffe so we
bought them a survival kit for the first week haha :)
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| For the Villanueva couple |
We had more time at
the house because my companion gets pretty dizzy with the foot medicine so she
would need some more time to nap. But hey the Lord blessed us a lot because the
four or five hours that we could work we had a FULL schedule. Our president is
really pushing weekly baptisms or at least 4 in one month so we are trying our
best and are praying what we've lined up for February will work out.
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| A missionary's To Do list when the comp is sleeping |
Missionaries can Laugh:
Our italian
investigator told us about Mother Teresa in his broken english and just
repeated "I love you too much, i love you too much" while holding a
book about her. It was pretty funny cause he was staring at Sister Swainston so
i teased her saying she had new boyfriend :)
Know you're in the Philippines When:
Emotions get kind of
high kind of fast so at stake choir practice the pianist / leader walked out
and I ended up teaching and playing. While teaching the tenor's their part the
cute old bishop (Brother Aguilar) was so tone deaf we were dying haha. I
checked their notes individually on the word "no" and we get to him
and it was like I don't even know where so everyone was like "NO!"
cause his note was wrong. Good times. I love the Philippines.
Tagalog:
Maraming butiki- lots
of lizards. That's what scurries around the walls and floor here.
Spiritual:
Basically just be
obedient to the Lord'c commandments. No matter what obstacles you have or when
we think we are "exceptions" God only asks us to follow his
commandments and he promises we will enjoy a "blessed and happy
state" (Mosiah 2:41). We could be lazy and use my comp's foot as an excuse
but we are diligent with our studied and make any hour we can proselyting
effective, and he is blessing us. We know all success comes because of him, not
from us. So that's the message. Be obedient. Just do it. Ang Diyos and bahala
sa mga biyaya na darating sa iyo.
Sister Walters
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