Namatay ang tinuturuan namin

Feb. 25 - March 1, 2019

  This week of work has been pretty decent. We've been doing less finding and trying to teach more to some of those people we've found recently that showed moderate interest. We were hoping this would help get some more people to church. That was kind of true seeing has we had one new person attend church this week but the person who came last week didn't come again. So in the end we still only had one person at church but this time he seems a little more sincere. He's a 72 year old man named Tatay Agullana. He's traditionally Catholic but has been recently attending the Born Again church close to his house. Because of the difference of his experience at the two churches he seems to have started developing questions about what's really true from each of them or if it even matters at all. Because of his concerns he has been willing to let us teach him and even attended church which is awesome. He has lots of questions and we're excited to continue teaching him. All the other people that committed to going to church though didn't show up.

Also during this week the Sister missionaries had three baptisms (which is the first baptisms in pagudpud in a VERY long time). They also needed some priesthood holder to baptize them so my companion volunteered immediately. Another thing that also happened during this week was the funeral of one of our previous investigators. We taught her a few times but she recently died of cardiac arrest. We actually went to part of the funeral service ( 15 minutes or so) because she was also the mother of a less active member. 

On Saturday we also worked with Branch President Baloaloa the whole day after the baptism. It was unplanned but it ended up being fun and effective since he's local. He was also able to bear a strong testimony to our investigators about his conversion story in the Ilokano language. It was good and powerful fellow shipping.

2 Ne. 26:8-9, 13

8 But behold, the righteous that hearken unto the words of the prophets, and destroy them not, but look forward unto Christ with steadfastness for the signs which are given, notwithstanding all persecution—behold, they are they which shall not perish.
9 But the Son of Righteousness shall appear unto them; and he shall heal them, and they shall have peace with him.

13 And.. he manifesteth himself unto all those who believe in him, by the power of the Holy Ghost; yea, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, working mighty miracles, signs, and wonders, among the children of men according to their faith.

This is just something I liked from my Book of Mormon studies. There's not much to add to it since it's very simply put. If we look forward unto Christ he will heal us. If we believe in him he will manifest himself unto us by the Holy Ghost and will work mighty miracles among us. The other thing I've been studying recently is from the Book of Samuel. That's also been pretty interesting to study but I don't know if there's anything worth sharing other than the story of Eli and his seed being cursed which probably won't be super beneficial to you.