Monday, November 12, 2018

E-mail dated 11/12/18


Kamusta Kamo??!!

Wow this week has been a fast one!! It was a busy one, not a usually busy, busy with a lot of meetings, but it was a great week!!! I appreciated all of your emails this week, always great to hear from you all!

So this week on Thursday Friday and Saturday we had meetings so with that and traveling to and from meetings and everything took up a majority of the week! But at least these meeting were different than the usual meetings that we have! On thursday and we have a zone conference as a part of a mission tour. Elder Teh of the seventy was present and even just him being there changed the entire feeling of the meeting, it was such an amazing experience to be taught by him a couple of times this  last week! The spirit was so strong in all of the meeting as Elder Teh shared with us what the living prophet and apostles want for missionary work! He talked a lot about basics of missionary work and how the Philippines Iloilo mission can improve in finding teaching and baptisms! One thing that he really emphasized was it depends on our attitude of what we get out of a meeting. Something he mentioned was that if all we know is what we see and hear, we will not know very much. He emphasized that we can receive personal revelation. Then on Friday we had an MLC also with Elder Teh. The council was the best one, Elder Teh seemed to trust the mission leaders so much and had confidence in us as we counseled with him and president cruz of how we can help the mission improve! Overall it was an awesome experience to have a mission tour with elder Teh! 

So that took up most of our time this week, but something great that happened because of all the meeting is that we got to have other missionaries who were too far to go home,  work in our area for a couple of hours and within those hours they found some great new investigators and potential investigators for us! So for how busy we always are that was a great blessing! We have already taught a few that they talked to and there is some great potential! One of them we taught was a sister that is staying here and is watching a bunch of like 10 year old kids and as we taught the plan of salvation especially the part about our purpose in life, these super loud kids were asking if they could have faith today, repent tomorrow and then be baptized the next day haha! BUt of course we explained to them, that is not how it works! haha!

That was pretty much our week. We are still preparing The Junsay family and bro gabawa for their baptisms on Christmas! We are still having some great lessons with them!

Well sorry the email is kind of short, next week it will probably be longer! I love and am so grateful for all of you! We have been so blessed as a family because of this Gospel so that is why I am here right now! Love you all and have a great week!

Palangga Ko kamo! 

Elder Degen

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