This past week was good! We went to Lipa for our Mission Tour on Tuesday with Elder and Sister Bowen of the 70 and he pretty much told us to step up our game and increase our expectations. He said there is no such thing as a hard area and that we can be doing a lot more in all of our areas. It was a really good wake up call I think for all of us. He told us not to put 'false limitations' on ourselves, the areas, the wards, and the investigators, but to put more trust in Heavenly Father.
The Thursday after Mission Tour though was really a test of our faith (Ether 12:6) and all day Friday till about 4 p.m. We were punted the entire time. It was so frustrating and so disheartening for me because we had nothing. Only OYM's (open your mouth) and I was just really upset.
I know that that was just the trial of my faith though, because from Friday, 4 p.m, onward till last night was my witness. We got 7 new investigators this week and we had 2 investigators at church and maraming (many) lessons. We had a lot of time to visit the members and ask for referrals. We got a couple referrals to go contact this week! It was SO rewarding to be able to have had those successes. I am very grateful for Sister Moimoi because that Friday after being punted and walking around in the hot sun and having a little break down, she pretty much gave me a pep talk and told me that even though we kept getting punted over and over and over, the fact that we kept trying was a witness to Heavenly Father that we were still working and hadn't decided to just go home because we had no appointments. She is really great
2 of our new investigators are mothers (Lisa and Alicia) and they have listened to other churches before, but as we were teaching you could see it really working in them and they were really pondering what we were saying to them. We will be going back to them this week to give them each a copy of the Book of Mormon and to continue sharing the gospel with them. I am really really excited for the progress we are seeing here!
Another investigator we have is June. He is 24 and not married, but he works with one of the members here. we haven't been able to teach him very consistently because we have to have a female member present to teach, but despite the fact we haven't been able to teach him, he has come to church the last 2 weeks in a row and is still reading the book of Mormon
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I am so excited for all of our investigators. We also started teaching a boy, Dave, his grandma is a member and his sister got baptized last year, so we are hoping we can get his lessons finished up so he can also be baptized!
As for the electric fan, this morning after we finished cleaning I had my oatmeal and was ready to sit down and eat and read a talk at my desk. I reached my arm over to blow the fan on me, but didn't notice that the metal cover was off because the other sisters were cleaning it, so my thumb went right in the blades. I hurried and moved it and just looked at it and then yelled "why is the cover of the fan off?" I think I went into shock. I just laid my head on the desk and started crying and my thumb started throbbing. Once I could pull myself together a bit I started to walk out to the kitchen with bright red sticky blood coming from my thumb. Sister Miranda was my nurse and just took me over to sink to put it under the water, and I just stood there looking at it and still crying because it hurt SO bad. The more I looked at it, the overwhelming feeling of throwing up washed over me so we went into the bath room. I stood over the toilet about ready to lose it, but really didn't want to. The nausea made me light headed and I started blacking out on my way back into the kitchen to sit down. Holy cow. I have never felt that awful! It was not fun at all. Then Sister Moimoi and Sister Miranda cleaned it for me and put hydrogen peroxide on it to clean it a little. I broke out in to sweats. I'm pretty sure it was shock. It was not fun at all. I doing much better though and am just so grateful it was only my thumb and it only has a few cuts on it and wasn't chopped off!
I think this pretty much confirms to all of us that the medical field is NOT for me.
The church is true, the miracles of missionary work continue, and electric fans are still blessings, only when they have the cover on them though. So my advice for this week....DON'T PUT YOUR FINGERS NEAR RAPIDLY SPINNING OBJECTS.
Mahal ko kayo!
Love,
Sister Mecham
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| District |
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| More pretty sky! |
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| This is a sweet lady we are teaching |
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| jeep ride |
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| Cora. She is so cute!! |
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