Dear Family,
We
had a really good week and a lot of success. This week a family we have
been teaching came to church for the first time and also a 70+ year old
lady came to church for the first time. We found both of them tracting
and we have so many great investigators right now. I really love the
people and they all have such great potential. I realized that if you
are obedient and prepare yourself in those important hours in the
morning, when you go out to work you can expect miracles and even if
your plan doesn't go though if you apply yourself you can find what the
lord really had in store for you to do as a full time missionary. And I
also realized that the lord really has miracles in store for all times
of the day even in times that it is hard to fine people to teach and
that we are definitely not alone as we push through those times when its
discouraging, being rejected, hot, rainy, tiring etc.
So whenever president is told about how there are
mean people or people don't want to accept the truth he was says they are
ALL good people and it really is true. Even if there are people that
don't accept the message we can look at the big picture and they all have
eternal potential, they all have time sometime in the future when they
might accept the gospel.
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| Family night with the Deguzman family |
So Brother Sadri, the tatay that has been doing
awesome is doing really great. He has a date one 27 and is really ready.
I really love his attitude he is like Nephi where there is will there
is a way. Its funny he always scolds his children and grandchildren when
we ask if they read and they haven't yet and about church and stuff. He
is like hey you promised to go to church by didn't you keep your
promise? And then if they have an excuse then he is always like get ur
done: there is a way if you want to. He is great.
We also found a really great investigator. On like
Wednesday morning we had a plan and like a back up plan and triple back
up plan and they all fell through and we after that we tried one more
house of someone we had talked to before and they weren't there but
their neighbor we met who is an 18 year old kid named Jason and we were
able to share to him. He really seems golden and everything kind of
clicked with him. He wanted to go to church this week but had a college
field trip in Baguio city but promised he would come next week. So next
week as well is conference. You can put your money on the prophet.
So we met this really humble and receptive tatay
this week and when we first talked to him he told us about how one if
his children died while still a baby and we were able to share Moroni 8
and tell him where his baby was he afterward described feeling that is
the spirit and said they he was really happy to know that truth of where
is child. We went back once and he is doing great.
We have a bunch of really great families that we
have been teaching. One is the Garcia family. So the dad sells peanuts
around the town and the wife cooks them and they have a bunch of other
side jobs as well. So the last few time we went there is seems like they
have been kind of losing interest and I think on Wednesday they were
cooking peanuts and said to just come back another day so we were kind
of losing hope but on Saturday we were able to share again and it was
really great lesson and then they said they would try to come to
church(like 95 percent of the time try here means no) so we were super
surprised to see them at church. In gospel principles the lesson was
eternal families so i think they had a good experience.
Also This old lady i think 74? that we met tracting
maybe a month ago came to church for the first time yesterday. So this
lady is named Ester and the first few times we came by she has been
really interested. Everything we left her she has been reading and she
would tell us everything about the pamphlet and was really awesome. The
last few weeks whenever we went by she hasn't been there and then
yesterday she came to church early and by herself so I think she has
been reading the Book of Mormon.
So I know this work is true and it is really the
Lords work. We see miracles everyday and this has definitely been the
happiest time of my life. I am really excited to hear about the mission
age and I am excited for Dallas and Bryce. They will also feel the
happiness of helping people hear and accept the gospel. I am excited to
see you in a few weeks but sad to leave here and the people that have
become a part of my life.
Love you!!!!!
A.J.
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