Monday, April 2, 2018

E-mail dated 4/2/18


Kamusta Kamo!!!?

Wow I am excited to email you today! This week has been so awesome and productive!! I don't know if I can email you everything that is happening here, but I will try my best! First of all thank you all for the emails and updates about conference, life , and sports! It was announced in my ward on sunday about the preisthood quorom changes, now we have a massive preisthood combined quorum, but I have no doubt that President Russel M Nelson is a prophet of God and is being led for whats best in these days! 

But the reason I am so excited to email you guys is because there are so many exciting things happening in my area right now, it is amazing! This week was full of finding new and amazing people, we received 15 new investigators and they are all awesome! We have been blessed and guided to these people who want to hear the Gospel! One experience was I think like 2 mondays ago we were getting a haircut and this barber shop that we always get our haircut at and I was waiting for my companion, when the owner over the barber shop started a conversation with me and eventually it led to him wanting me to meet his family, then we gave them a lesson one pamphlet and set a return appointment. Then just this last Saturday night we visited them and taught them lesson 1 all about family(Zarandin Family), and the loved it, and the next day 5 of them came to church! Even though we had only taught them once and didn't even finish lesson one! I was amazed and happy and how strong their faith is! We were also blessed with many new and former investigators that are very interested. Another example we had a less active family come back to church and their kids are not members yet so we are teaching them and their cousins (pariginog and Lazo family). This sunday we fasted as a mission that we and our investigators might be spiritual prepared for what President Cruz calls the harvest season. Which is we have a goal as a mission to have 100 baptisms in the month of May! And from the miracles that I have seen, I know it is possible and May is looking very bright here in the Iloilo city ward! 

So as we were fasting on Saturday and Sunday, I had such a great feeling and comfort that it was going to be a great sunday. At first when it was 5 minutes before chruch started we had 2 investigators at chruch, but as the meeting started all of our investigators started flooding in and wow what a miracle it was, we had 12 total investigators at Church! It brought me such great joy to see these people make the effort to come to chruch. And the ward was so great to welcome them all and make them feel like friends. I hope and pray as we continue to work hard and help them, they will continue to come to church! Also I would like to give you an update about one of our investigators that I know I have told you about before, Sister April! She is still solid as ever and is already in Alma of the Book of Mormon and her baptism will be on April 9 next week according to the answer she received. I am so excited and so is she, she has completely changed her life and she already has such a strong testimony!

Well thats all I have for my great week, I hope you guys have a great week! Thanks for everything I love you guys so much! Oh by the way I tried to send you a letter today, but the said it was going to cost 20 dollars so i said indi na lang (or basically no thanks) So sorry no letter until I find a cheaper way to send it! 

Palangga Ko kamo

Elder Degen  




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