May sakit si Elder Rasmussen

Nov. 6 - Dec 1, 2019

This week was pretty good except for the fact that Elder Rasmussen was super sick for two days (in a row) and threw up seven times. We were stuck in our apartment for a while which kinda slowed the work. Because of this though, we did have some pretty busy days following his 'near-death' experience.

Tuesday -

The day of work went alright but none of our appoints went through. We ended up just doing lots of finding as a backup plan and were able to find some people that seemed at least moderately sincere which was really cool. After talking to 14 new people in the day we returned home to our apartment. Shortly after our arrival our power went out. As everything was dark we saw one source of light out of our window. We looked out and our power-line was had an electrical fire. It went out after about 30 seconds but it was pretty sketchy.

Wednesday -

So this was the first day of Elder Rasmussen's sickness. He threw up in the morning and then threw up several more times. We couldn't really go out and do much. I did some studying.

Helaman 14:30-31 (reference to Alma 3:26-27)

30 And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth, perisheth unto himself; and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye are free; ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given unto you a knowledge and he hath made you free.
31 He hath given unto you that ye might know good from evil, and he hath given unto you that ye might choose life or death; and ye can do good and be restored unto that which is good, or have that which is good restored unto you; or ye can do evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you.

I really liked the two verses listed here. They are both about free agency and the result of our actions. I like the scripture above because it discusses how God gave us free agency to choose for ourselves but he also has given us knowledge so we are not ignorant in understanding what's good and what's evil. Because of this, we have the ability to choose what's wrong and right and in every situation we receive a reward based on our works (whether it's a reward of good or evil).

Thursday -

It was just another sick day. I did more studies and I also did some deep apartment cleaning.

Friday -

We finally were able to get a little work in as Elder Rasmussen's sickness died down. Though we did some work, it wasn't super intensive because he seemed to get fairly easily fatigued. We also went to the neighboring area of Santa Anna and met up with Elders Squire and Garcero in order for me (as district leader) to do a baptismal interview for them. This interview was interesting since the baptismal candidate didn't really speak very good Tagalog (or Ilokano) because she's from a different part of the Philippines. Much of the interview was based on the gift of discernment.

Saturday -

We used this full day to try and go to all the people we failed to go to during Elder Rasmussen's sickness. We were able to contact our mainly progressing investigators and were able to teach them which was great.

Sunday -

It was kind of a slow day of work with lots of attempted finding. There were lots of people that weren't very interested. The one person that seemed to be interested actually was just a JW that was just interested in having a "discussion" which really just them talking a lot about their Bible.

Pictures -

So we're in a computer shop that doesn't allow files to be uploaded to the computer so I can't send pictures. Also, I still don't have a camera.