Kamusta
Kamo??!
Astig
gid ang sini nga semena! (this week has been awesome)
Well
thanks once again for all the updates about sports, your lives, and everything,
it is just great to hear from all of you! I look forward to it every week! So
this week has been so great and I feel like I am pretty well adjusted to my new
area and it is so awesome. There are so many amazing people here and
specifically our investigators, they are so awesome and progressing! It brings
me so much joy to see others embrace the Gospel and let it change their lives.
I
want to share an experience of one of our investigators. Her name is Sister
April, I taught her the first day I arrived in City B area and she has
progressed so much ever since. So this past week she told us of an amazing
experience that she had with reading the Book of Mormon. She told us that she
has been reading it everyday and one day she prayed before she read and then
after she read she got a phone call and was offered a new job. She really did
not like her old job and she was so happy. It was a miracle. That is just one
of many miracles that can happen if we read the Book of Mormon. But, that was
not all. Later on in the week we taught her the word of Wisdom and we knew she
drinks coffee every morning, but through her amazing prayers and faith she has
overcome that and has not drank coffee since that lesson. We gave her a
priesthood blessing to continue to resist the temptation of Coffee. And then
yesterday, she accepted a baptismal date! She is so amazing. She is so
interested that she wants us to teach her everyday and every time she says the
closing prayer she prays that we will not stop sharing the gospel with her. It
has been so cool to see the gospel change her life in such a short time, I have
no doubt that she was looking for this gospel even though she didn't realize
it, she was prepared by the lord. All the other experiences this week have been
pretty awesome as well.
So
in this area there are a ton of kids every where on the streets and I love
messing around with them and talking to them. Like sometimes I will pretend
like I have no idea how to speak Ilonggo and then just start speaking it and
they go crazy. Oh and something I hear about 1000 times a day is "oy may
cano!" which means hey there is an american. And often I will respond by
saying "ay tuod, diin?" which is oh really, where. haha. I love
messin with the little filipino kids. I love these people and this language.
· How far away are you from your chapel? Not
far. We just take like a 5 minute jeepney ride and we are there, it is a super
nice chapel too! I will take a picture this week and send it to you.
· Have you been to the 7-11 and do they have
Slurpees? Haha we go to 7-11 all the time, but the slurpee machine is always
broken, but I am lovin these weird filipino foods and drinks.
· Have you played any basketball lately?Oh
yeah, every monday we play with the young men in our ward, its great!
Well Thanks for everything you guys do for
me! You guys are the best! HAVE a great week!
Halong Kamo!
Elder Joshua Degen
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