Kamusta
kamo?!! Maayong Adlaw sang Pagpasalamat! (Happy Thanksgiving!)
It
has been another great and busy week!!
So
this week just flew by!! I wish i could tell you everything that happened this
week, but I can't! I will just tell you about the best parts! So one of the
coolest things this week was when we taught one of our investigators with a
baptismal date of dec 17 (The Taton Family) about the word of wisdom. So both
of the parents drink coffee every morning and were pretty hesitant at first to
even consider stopping, but then we had a great lesson with them. And it wasn't
great because my language was perfect or it flowed good, it was great because
the spirit was so strong! We explained the word of wisdom simply, but she
didn't really understand why she couldn't drink coffee. We then shared some
scriptures, I shared 1 Nephi 11:17
17 And
I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not
know the meaning of all things.
The
spirit was so strong and we promised here that if she has a real desire to be
baptized, that she could follow the word of wisdom, even if she may not know
exactly why. Sometimes it is hard to do somethings that we may not know they
exact reason but, It is so important to remember that we have a loving father
in Heaven, so if we know that we don't need to know everything.
Also
this week we had a special training in Iloilo city with President Cruz. The
main emphasis of the meeting was about the church's Light the World Campaign.
Light The World is all about serving others for 25 days in December. It may
just be small service, but thats okay, the idea is to let our light shine
before the world and just share happiness with others. Just imagine if all
members of the church did this, wow that would have a huge effect. Elder
Salamatin and I have made a goal to serve a member or nonmember everyday of
December and ask for referrals. I encourage you all to go on LDS.org and do
this. Light The World!
- Did you do anything
special for Thanksgiving? Yes. We had a delicious Thanksgiving
"Feast" of rice chicken and Mtn dew! Also
all the elders in our apartment talked about unique holidays we have in
our countries since we are all from different countries, it was cool!
- Do you have any
activities planned with other missionaries coming up? Yes we have
Christmas conference on dec 8 with the whole mission, so i get to
see my friends from the Mtc.
- Are you still washing
your clothes by hand? How long does it take you to do laundry and
when do you do it? Isn’t there like a laundromat you could take them
to? Yes, but recently I have been paying a member to do it, so pday can
actually be pday. When I do it, it takes at least 3 hours and then however
long to dry.
- Do you have strong
priesthood leaders in your Branch? We have
pretty strong preisthood leadership, which is a blessing. We are working
on getting 15 active and tithe paying preisthood members so we can get a
chapel.
- How are you
sleeping? Is it really hot at night and do you sleep with a mosquito
net over your bed? I am sleeping great. It isn't hot because we have AC
in our bedroom, sooo nice! And no mosquito net.
- Have you had to do any
door-to-door contacting or how do you get your investigators? We have
done that a few times. It is fun, instead of knocking you just yell
"Tag balay". Most of our investigators come from referrals or
just street contacting.
Well
that should do it for this week! Thanks for all the emails, I love you guys!
Elder
Degen
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