This area has been pretty great and all but as for the missionary work here it's still been pretty slow. After our week of finding and teaching none of our investigators came to church. We have a few perspective people we're teaching though that we think and hope will go to church though.
Tuesday -
As usual we had our district council in the morning. We then did this thing called missionary work later. Instead of just doing lots of finding this entire week like we've been doing for the past couple weeks we tried to do some more teaching as well. We thought that a change in the technique of our work (even though it's a little different than the suggested technique of our AP's) might help. We were wrong since we still had no one at church. It felt better though to teach some lessons and have zero investigators a sacrament than to only do finding and still have zero people at sacrament meeting. We taught three solid lessons during the day.
Wednesday -
We worked in this area called Agassi and found 11 new people along with teaching three lessons. We also taught of pretty good lesson about the Book of Mormon to a couple people.
Thursday -
I had exchanges with our district leader Elder Mamauag in Bangui. They went well. He was a little shy as a lot of Filipino's are but since I'm American I can get away with awkwardly approaching lots of people. We talked to a decent amount of people and did some basic teaching. We also ate lunch with the sister companionship in Bangui during the day.
Friday -
We went to this barangay in our area called Dampig for the first time. In order to get there you have to walk up this super long steep road over the mountain and then down the other side. It was kind of tiring. While we were there we did some finding and also ate lunch with this member named Carlo. He's the only active member of the three members in the entire barangay. There's a lot of work to be done there. We also talked to one of the two less active members there.
Saturday -
In the morning we worked in Agassi again. This has kind of been our area of focus recently since it hasn't been worked too much previously by other missionaries. We taught a couple lessons again.
In the afternoon we continued to the centro of Pagudpud to continue our work. We found some more new people but no one that seemed abnormally interested or willing to really listen. For dinner we headed over to the house of President Baloaloa since it was his birthday. It was fun and we talked to his sons who also served missions. One of them actually served in San Diego.
Also, during my personal study I read from the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon and this verse in Nephi stood out to me.
1 Nephi 6:4 -
4 For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.
So this verse is when Nephi is referring to his purpose for writing on the plates. His purpose in doing so is of course to help other to come unto God. That is why he kept is record. That is the "fulness of [his] intent." As missionaries we often recite our purpose is to "invite others to come unto Christ." As I read this verse though I wondered for myself what my intent really is. I feel like this can be an important point of self reflection for each of us. What is our goal every day? What is the fulness of our intent? What is our desire everyday in our lives? Clearly our purpose regardless of who we are or what our circumstances are should be to help ourselves and others come unto God, but is that really our focus always? No matter what we do everyday we should always strive to do the right thing to achieve that goal. Hopefully we can all eventually align our goal more fully with that of Nephi.
Sunday -
We had church and did more work in Agassi but this time with our fellowship named Rayzan. He's twenty and wants to serve a mission so it's probably good that he works with us occasionally. Also, after church Elder Powell and I had to fix the branch's computer because it had a virus and got everything deleted. We had to fix the church's MLS program so that the branch can save and access records of tithing, baptisms, etc, all of which had been deleted. It took a while but we eventually got it sorted out after working with lots of accounts and ID numbers and even calling some hotline in Salt Lake City. It was good that we were there since the guy on the end of the phone only spoke english and also since the branch members here don't really know how to use computers super well. He was surprised to hear that he was actually speaking to the missionaries.
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