Elder Davis Baguio Philippines : Napakagandang Lingo

Hello everyone even though this week may have been somewhat rough,
because I am still not in my area. It;s been such a great and happy week,
that is why the title of my email is very beautiful week.
Monday we got the opportunity to work in my area and it was
amazing. First we visited the one solid person who has a baptismal
date sister Hanna. This was amazing. Unfortunately she has an issue
with marriage so we have to wait for them to figure it out before we
can proceed with baptism. But her testimony is amazing she bore it and
I could just feel that she knew and actually knew that the church is
true. Note when I showed up we had barely started teaching her. Now
she reads without us asking her to she goes to church every week
without us asking her to (with a baby). I have come to see the love of
Christ for her so much and am so exited to see her continue in the way
she has progressed. After her we went and had an FHE with a member who
had several non members renting from them, one of which was a past
investigator.
Tuesday we had a great district counsel meeting about the gospel
of Jesus Christ. After district meeting we went out and worked in
Santa Maria area. This went well we had several lessons about the
gospel of Jesus Christ. This was great! Then it started dumping and when
I say dumping I mean harder than any rain I've seen before and being
from Oregon that's saying something. This was great for finding because
everyone was like step in get out of the rain. Here we met so
many people that have great potential.
Wednesday we had a CSP we went to one of the schools that a member
in Navcan is a principle of and helped clean and paint the hall way
getting ready for class on the 3rd. (Normally this would be seriously
bad but here it is encouraged) After this and getting ready we went
and ran into some members on the way out and they were going to a
patay (a funeral of sorts kinda) the person who had died was the grand
child of a member. So we went and visited the member and the husband
of the person who had died and we had the opportunity to share a
message about the Plan of Salvation. This was really well received by
all they liked the idea that they would see there loved ones again and
invited us back to share more on how it was possible. After this we
tried to visit some other people who were not there, so we went to the
farewell party for brother Robert Calibuso, who left for his mission
on Thursday and reported to the MTC on Thursday. After the farewell
we tried to visit some inactive members but they weren't home or were
asleep.
Thursday Elder Kaisler was sick so I went with elder Cluff and
elder Macalister, the other companionship in Santa Maria we went out
and tried to get some members to come and work with us but they were
asleep or busy. So we went out and tried to visit some of there people
but they weren't there. Then we went out to the other manicupality called
Bourgous there we visited some of there interested people and had a
great lesson about the Restoration then about the Book of Mormon it was
amazing. They had so many great questions like how can I know if this is
true. This was amazing. We then went and visited another family and
they were great were really interested and had lots of questions about
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Friday pretty average day worked had some ok lesson so ya no
really amazing things except that elder Kaslere was well enough to work
(he had tonsillitis) and his Tagalag is getting so much better all of
our work together is paying off (I'm trying to help but not take over
for his trainer because he was called as the trainer.)
Saturday we had a random interested person text us who had not
been taught in a little bit we arranged to meet with them we met them
and got to know them we had a great lesson with them about the gospel
of Jesus Christ and the family is forever she really liked that
because here husband had passed away two weeks ago. We then went and
visited a part member family with bishop. We just were blessed
to run into after visiting them we went and visited one of the
prospective elders then went and visited the family of now elder
Calibuso.
Sunday was great sister Hana went to church as well as her dad
who is also not a member then several inactive members returned but I
didn't know this until that night but It made me so happy because the
people are progressing and I can see the progression. In sacrament
meeting I was pianist and put my 5 years of piano lessons an 3 years
of note reading in choir to use and actually did ok (mostly using the
regular hymn book because they chose ones that weren't in the
simplified) so that was great other than that I fasted for the people
in my area and it was great.
So over all this week was amazing even though it was rough not
being able to work in my area so ya.
This week my scriptural thought comes from Moroni 10:3-5

3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if
it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember
how a merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the
creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these
things, and ponder it in your hearts.

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye
would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these
things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with
real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of
it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

This week I finished my 90 day reading challenge issued by our mission
president and as I read these verses I thought I should try this again
as I challenge people to do it at least weekly and as I did i felt a
calmness that can't be described I know that this is a book from God
and they are His words I there for challenge you now to follow the
challenge in these verses to read and then pray to know if it is true as
i know they are.
Thank you all for you love support and updates I love the emails i get
from you all from time to time so thank you
Elder Davis
Narvacan