Alright! So last
Monday was a solid day for sure! In the
evening we were able to teach Tinay and her boyfriend. Her boyfriend, Ampeng, was pretty
uncomfortable and fidgety at first, but when the Holy Ghost came in, he calmed
right down. We talked about repentance
and that was good. Afterwards we taught
a less active boy who came to church last Sunday for the first time in a long
time. He feels he needs to talk to the
bishop and some things, but he is scared to, so we were happy to help him
out. Tuesday morning we finalized the
house for the sisters! We finally found
one for them! So that was a relief. Now our next task is to find one for the new
senior couple moving to Tarlac. We had
exchanges with the Capas elders, so Elder Viquera (Elder Armatage’s trainer and
my longtime friend) was my companion! We
had such an amazing day planned….and it all fell apart. But we still managed to squeak out lessons to
Al, our less active neighbor Jess and the Evangelista family. Wednesday was transfer announcements! Elder Delante and I are still companions,
which is what I wanted! And Elder Olohan
and Elder Checketts are staying, too. Not
a whole lot of changes this time around!
In the afternoon we taught Reynaldo, an old contact, and he accepted a
goal date on the first lesson and he set the return appointment for when his
wife could join as well! Also we taught
Ben about praying to know and he finally accepted a goal date for April 18th! Yes!
Then we were mega-rejected in the evening from 4 appointments, but we
won’t dwell on that!
Thursday we taught Carlos who hasn’t asked the lawyer about
changing the letters of his name on his marriage contract yet, but he said he
would soon! We taught Ami, a less active
with her nonmember husband there, Marvin, who really understood and related
well with the message of the Restoration.
He said he would read and pray to know ad he even accepted a goal date
for April 18th! Hopefully
that goes through. They’ve got big
potential as a family! Friday morning we
headed over to the sisters’ apartment with Elder Weber to take down their spare
bunk beds are they are moving hopefully next Tuesday. That was an adventure! After that we had exchanges with Elder
Choresca in Victoria! I don’t know, I
really like working in Victoria and I especially like working with Elder
Choresca. Their two interviews passed so
that’s good news! We were running a
little late all day, but overall it was good.
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| Exchanges with Elder Choresca |
Saturday morning we came back and had weekly planning. This week we’re planning on visiting 6-8
active member families to help them do missionary work. That’s our strength in Ward 4, so that’s what
we are going to push! In the afternoon
we taught Mina, who is so nice, but she just doesn’t have that real intent, so
that’s rough. We’ll see if this goes
anywhere. Our drunk less active, Brother
W, was trying to get us to teach him and to drink soda with him, which was
weird. I don’t know—lots of weird stuff
happens in this area that keeps us from teaching the gospel. After dinner we taught Lolita and Carlos and
Carlos promised to go to the lawyer on Monday and we related it to Nephi
getting the plates to help inspire him.
We then taught J. and visited a couple members on the way home.
Sunday started with good news and bad news. Bad news- no investigators came to church L. Good news- three less actives came to
church! Michelle, who lives in that far
out area that we visited last week, came.
Al, our neighbor who hasn’t been to church in who knows how many years
came and Allan Victorio, who is returning to activity just nicely! In the afternoon we had our SMC with
President Clark and President Espinosa, which went well! Tarlac Stake is planning to split next year,
so wards are starting to split and it’s exciting! We taught Al afterwards, who felt welcomed
and happy at church. After the lesson
when we asked if he knew anyone we could teach, he said, “Marami!”(many!) And then he showed
us two of his friends, a couple whose names are Rheyn and Karen, whom we taught
and set return appointments with.
Afterwards he showed us a few more people on the way back home. It was AWESOME. Such a blessing. After dinner we taught the Ombac (?) family,
a recent convert family who has gone less active a bit, and we challenged them
to reset the temple as their goal. We
finished the evening by teaching Steve and Abigail Ong and they are so awesome
and nice… They always give us food, too!
Anyway, this week ended with a bang!
And we have a lot to do this next week.
I’ll leave off with the verse we shared with Al
yesterday: 3 Nephi 9:14. It’s all about coming unto Him. He’s just waiting to help us and show us the
more excellent way.
-Elder Christensen
P.S. I hope no one
gets offended if I don’t respond. I just
never have time to respond to friends anymore and email time is about to get
shortened even more. I’ll try to respond
when I can, but it not, we’ll talk when I get back!
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| Trunky papers :( |
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