Another Week in Baua

This has just been another moderate week in Baua. Nothing super crazy has happened and we haven't got to work as much as I would have preferred but it's been okay.  My companion is actually going home next Monday as well so I probably won't be able to send an email not week. I'm not exactly sure what's going on. 

Monday -

It was a typical Monday and I my companion and I tried to see how many foot-long hot-dogs we could eat. We managed to eat 4 each. Not that that's super important. That's just a side note.

Tuesday -

We didn't have district council as usual because of the upcoming zone conference. The main person we have been teaching recently wasn't available either. We had to just kill the time with some work. I also did a lot of studies. There's two scriptures that I really liked while reading the New Testament once again.

Acts 14:22 -

22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

I like this verse because it clarifies that it's through tribulation and trial that we enter into the kingdom of God. Sometimes we try and soften the trials and difficulties we face because we don't like to face and recognize difficulty, but in reality life wasn't meant to be easy. This plan wasn't meant to be easy, it was meant to be accomplish-able. That means you have to go through a lot to grow a lot and develop into the character God wants you to be. but you also will receive help because of Christ's Atonement.

The other verse I like is in Acts as well. I like it because it helps describe our relationship to God

Acts 17:27-30 -

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

It also ends with an invitation to repent. The times where God "winked at" (overlooked) sin are passed. We need to change.

Wednesday -

Not much happened other than teaching the Word of Wisdom to our main investigator Jenlyn Agacir.

Thursday -

We taught a lesson about the Plan of Salvation to a member, that wanted to understand the plan of salvation better so she could explain it to her friend. Hopefully, we will be able to teach this said friend on a following day.

Friday -

We had our zone conference in a place called Magapit in a hotel called Solomon's Hotel. President Peterson's lesson seemed very familiar to me as he taught about the apostles, the spirit, and teaching from the Bible as missionaries. A few weeks prior during our interviews this was the exact same stuff I talked to him about. I shared a scripture from John 16:33 and I also gave him the context and explained it's meaning (about the apostles and how they were empowered by the spirit once Christ ascended). He then was happy and surprised when I shared a scripture from the New Testament unlike most of the other missionaries that shared from the Book of Mormon only. We had a discussion about how we wish missionaries would use the Bible more, specifically the New Testament seeing as it's the actual mortal life of Christ. This ended up being the exact topic of discussion at zone conference which is cool. 

I also received some two packages from home after zone conference ended.

Saturday -

We taught a lesson about the gospel of Jesus Christ to our other progressing investigator and it went very well. I also did a lot of reading from 'The Great Apostasy' by James E. Talmage. It's a cool book of scriptural stuff intermixed with regular history which I like very much. It also seems to give a fairly good in depth explanation of the Great Apostasy so far. I also liked a quote in the book that said "Obedience to the law is the habit of a free man."

Sunday -

We had our district conference in this area called Gonzaga and President Peterson was there so that was cool. It's funny when he talks to Filipino congregations in English.

Pictures -

I wish I could upload pictures but for some reason that's not possible in the computer shop. I'll probably upload the pictures from this week the next time I get a chance. There might be a huge spam of pictures at once.