Monday, February 4, 2019

E-mail dated 2/4/19


Kamusta kamo??!!!

It has been a great week! wooo! I was happy to get all of your emails this week! 

Wow I can't believe it is already February! Time is flying, January went by so fast!! Time goes by so much faster the longer I am out on the mission! It is weird! But this week was a really awesome week, a lot of miracles or even just tender mercies as well! 

This week we been focusing on the Gallo Family and they are doing great! They are progressing great and we have another goal date for them on the 23rd of February and as long as they just keep doing what they are doing they will be baptized on that day! Yesterday it was fast and testimony sunday and I had one of the most special experiences on my mission. Sister Gallo (member) bore her sincere testimony and how grateful she is that her kids and her husband are at church and will be baptized. She said she is especially grateful that she has seen the influence of church and the gospel in her kids because the kids always want to go with us and do missionary work. As she bore her testimony with tears in her eyes it was hard for me as well to hold back tears. Just little experiences like that is what makes a mission so cool! I love the Gallo family and I am so happy that I am able to teach them the Gospel and see the effect it has on them! That is for sure something I will not forget, the spirit was very strong!

Another cool experience I had this past week was just a couple of days ago (Sat/sun). So we started our fast sat. after lunch and it is always hard to fast, but this time there was a numerous amount of times we were offered food, but somehow we stayed strong all the way through.  We were fasting for many things, but specifically to find new investigators that are prepared to hear our message and wow, it was a miracle. That very day we found 2, great, awesome new investigators and they came to church too! One of them is a 54 yr old lady, sister Elizabeth, she came from Negros island and she was taught by missionaries over there and in our first lesson with her she asked us when she can be baptized, wow! Then also that day we went to visit a  kind of less active family and after we taught them, Bro mark, the husband of sister percalin who is not a member told us that he wants to be taught! We were so blessed, and I have a firm testimony of sincere prayer and fasting, it truly can change hearts. Heavenly Father really does hear and answer our prayers, but we also have to do our part! That is a huge thing that I have learned on the mission! 

Oh and today we had an awesome zone activity!! Wahoo! We went to a resort called Andana in Nueva Valencia! I got to go back to my first area! And also bro rhen poll ( member from nueva valencia) came with us! Holy cow it was so cool! The view is amazing! SO what we did was play beach volleyball for a while, walked around and looked at all the cool views and then got mango shakes, it was such a fun zone activity. Guimaras is a beautiful place! I will send pictures! 

Well that should probably do it for this week! I love you guys! Have a great week!

Palangga ko kamo!

Elder Degen 











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