Another Rainy week

Nov. 12-17, 2019

This week it was really rainy and right now I'm writing this email while a tropical storm is headed towards our part of the Philippines again. We also had exchanges earlier this week but overall nothing super crazy or abnormal seemed to happen.

Tuesday -

It was a pretty normal Tuesday except for we didn't have district council since it was transfer week. We were able to complete a full day of work and ended up talking to 14 new people and teaching one new person and of course we walked the entire day like usual since Baua doesn't seem to have many forms of transportation.

Wednesday -

It was another decent day of work which consisted of lots of finding like usual. Our mission has been focusing a lot on specifically finding sincere people. Everyone here will let you talk to them but not everyone sincerely wants to change. So we've been doing lots of sifting of wheat and tares. We also tazed ourselves with Elder Rasmussen's taser that we use to scare dogs on the street.  Also I have another scripture that I liked from personal study in the New Testament..

Hebrews 10:36 -

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

This is just one scripture that I think really does a good job of simplifying the process of the faith cycle. It goes hope/belief, then action on our part, and then evidence. There's no other way that faith works and if we understand this we'll see and recognize a lot more miracles in our life.

Thursday -

We had exchanges with the ZL's and I went back to Sta. Terresita with Elder Grifitts. I also got my second rabies shot there. Our day of work was pretty good and we both learned a lot from each others' techniques for finding and things. It was a good day and I also got to see lots of their progressing investigators. Elder Griffits is in my batch and I really like him. He's a good missionary.

Friday -

It was a shorter day of work because we had to finish exchanges in the morning and we also had to do weekly planning. We also had a few pretty good lessons with some people we started teaching recently (all of which didn't attend church on Sunday). We also ran into some people doing the Philippines census. They were going door-to-door on a motorcycle. It's kind of funny and painful circumstances for them since addresses don't exist here in the Philippines. We also learned that in our biggest barangay (town) in our area there are only 1004 people. The population is so small here.

Saturday -

We had a full day of work. Our goal was to go to all of our progressing investigators which caused us to travel to almost every single area in Baua and we did a LOT of walking. Unfortunately most of the people we tried to teach weren't there but we did talk to a couple of new people, one of which attended church yesterday even though we didn't do much of anything but casually invite her to church.

Sunday -

We had three people attend sacrament. It was the first time to attend church for all of them which is pretty cool. The downside is that the other people that have been attending church for the past couple weeks didn't show up. Also during church we had the primary program. Children both opened and closed the meeting with prayers and the nine children that are even part of our primary gave talks. They didn't just have memorized lines or phrases but had their own talks which was fun.

Pictures -

I failed to take many pictures and stuff.

The rest of the day we did some work with some of the youth of the ward. They got easily distracted so it kind of slowed the work but we didn't really want to deny them the opportunity to serve others.