Monday. Start of the week and we had transfers one of my house mates was transferring and the other was transferring. Because we do transfers on Pday now we brought the one transferring down to the bus stop put him on a bus and returned to our apartment. I opened my first package from home which turned out to be my thanksgiving package I quickly decided again that I was blessed with one of the most amazing thoughtful mother and family. It had stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry's lemon bar box, and several other things for thanks giving. Ill talk more about that on Thursday.
Tuesday we were with a third missionary Elder Rencher because he was training and his companion didn't get here till Thursday. We did some findings and visited some of the members in the area for referrals. The members who actually will work with us love us and are always welcoming.(doesn't mean they feed us but they are so loving) they gave us some help finding some of the people we were looking for in the area. We went searching for a RM who had served in the area then came back and had lived here. We ended up finding his house but his neighbors said he was in Canada for the holidays. I had a very pleasant conversation with a drunk man about the church in Tagalog, Which taught me that the lord is blessing me so much in the gift of tongs.
Wednesday We took Elder Rencher to the bus stop for his training then ran back to the apartment for exercise. We finished the lessons for sister Nazarine one of our baptisms this week. That night we had two of the elders from my batch who were training stay the night that was amazing.\
Thursday was a really good day.We did proselyting in Comileocis until our district leader showed up to interview our baptismal candidate. We took him to sister Nazarin and she was approved for baptism. We then walked to Roney Jays house. The district leader interviewed Roney Jay for baptism and approved him. He literally came out skipping pumping his fist saying I'm being baptized Saturday. The district leader then interviewed John Rey for baptism. Here's where my heart got broken. He did not get approved for baptism. He was so upset about that he was almost crying. I was supper upset for him but then we told him that in a week he could be re-interviewed and given a chance to be baptized in 2 weeks. He was soooooo happy about that and got exited again. We then returned to our apartment and I prepared Thanksgiving dinner. Mashed potato's, gravy, stuffing fried chicken (we couldn't figure out a turkey or a lechon manook) Olives, green beans, and cranberry's. I then made lemon bars in our toaster oven. We didn't originally know how it would work out but it worked perfectly. I was supper blessed to have a mom and family so thoughtful and supportive and for a companionship so sportive. We also met the new missionary. Elder Roberts from Florida. He's a new missionary straight from the Provo Mtc running on 3 hours of sleep. he was told 2 hours before he left the Provo mtc that he was leaving then came straight to the field.
Friday we visited Rooney, and his brother, who we only had taught once before, told us he wanted to be baptized but he was studying and was only available on Sunday. We were super excited. This family has been such a blessing to us. Roney has led to 3 out of 5 of our solid Invitations to be baptized and now possibly another because of his brother. The Lord really is on our side. We then taught the Olias family. They remind me so much of my family especially they're little 8 year old girl with all her energy and excitement to be baptized.
Saturday was the best day ever mostly. We cleaned the chapel for our baptism and started filling the font. We picked up our two water jugs and got a call that President Bangal was visiting us in our apartment. We got back to our apartment and started getting ready and dressed for the day when one of our water jugs tipped off the shelf and dumped all of the water out on the ground. We quickly started to mop it up and just got finished when President Bangal got here. After we explained what had happened he kinda chuckled and said well I guess we'll just have to be more careful next time. He interviewed Elder Roberts and congratulated me and Elder Sefuentes on our baptisms and left. Later that day we had our baptisms. It was so amazing to see the change in the two that we were baptizing. Sister Nazarin a 12 year old girl, and member of a part member family, would hardly speak with us when she started meting with us. She slowly started opening up and talking more she would say a prayer in the lesson and eventually started keeping commitments and with every commitment she would keep I saw her change even more. She is such an amazing investigator and has come so far. She was happy Saturday to be baptized. Our other investigator that got baptized Rooney he is the one that I was talking about earlier. When we first met him things were rough until his first Sunday. He went to church and something changed he got so exited by the Gospel I could see the change the spirit wrought upon him. He invited his friends to meet with us and started to be taught they are now as exited as he was to be baptized and are actively working towards it in the next week or two. Now that he is a member he is supper exited to be able to be a deacon in a year, and Is preparing to be one. He will be such a blessing to the branch. The baptism service was amazing we had so much support from the young men and young women of the branch all of both were there as well as there leaders it was amazing. That, and seeing them all dressed in white ready to be baptized. Unfortunately both of them had to be baptized twice because the flow of water was so slow that the water had hardly reached my knees but it was still so amazing to see there two smiling faces and to feel the joy of Heavenly Father for them. The rest of the day was a normal work day really.
Sunday we confirmed our two baptisms and it was amazing to see there two smiling faces after the confirmation. I could really feel the love of heavenly Fathers love and joy for them. The rest of Sunday was a regular work day as well.
My spiritual thought this week comes from Mosiah 13:33
33 For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began—have they not spoken more or less concerning these things?
The prophet of old and now all are special witnesses of Christ I would challenge you to read the prophets words both of old and new and see how they testify of Christ and apply something they teach in your life.
Elder Davis
Ps i have some cheese blog style videos special for thanksgiving don't judge me for
wondering how to bake something when you don't have an oven
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