Well last week I think I just turned my brain off during my emails. It hit me really hard last week how fast time is going! My brain was not working correctly. So I forgot to tell you last week we had a crazy storm on Friday that blew over the tree in our front yard and we couldn't work until 4 because the wind and rain were going crazy!! But there wasn't any other damage done, just lots of leaves in the streets.
As for this week, it has been really good!! We get punted like crazy everyday from 12-3, but we've had consistently 4-6 lessons after those hours. It is really hard during those times because it is SO hot, and everyone is home sleeping. We just do our best to go contact OYM's or to find some of the unordained elders from the lists we have. But we really find a lot of success after the hot part of the day.
I think I got heat stroke on Saturday because we were out in the heat all day and around 4, we went back to the church to help the other sister's get ready for their baptism (which was SO good!! Their investigator is the cutest lady ever!!).During the baptism, I just felt awful and had the worst headache. After the baptism, I told sister Moimoi I didn't feel good, so we went home and I went to bed early with a fever. By the time I woke up, my fever was gone, but I've had a headache since then and last night my fever got up to 38.3, so I just took some medicine and am feeling better today, so we are just hoping the fever doesn't come back later.
As for our work this week, a lot of the people we've talked to just want to fight or bible bash with us, but in the end, we just bare our testimonies to them, and those are the times when my testimony gets so much stronger. I don't have any doubts about this church, because I know that all the doctrines of this church are God's doctrines.
If these people could just read the Book of Mormon, it would answer every question and concern that they have. We also are having troubles with those being deceived by Satan. I know we have done our best to teach the true doctrines and help resolve their concerns, and they are even reading the book of Mormon, but for some reason, they say that they are not ready for the church and not ready to let go of old habits or beliefs. It really is sad. But despite these challenges and set backs, we have done our best to be diligent in sharing the gospel, and Heavenly Father has blessed us with 7 new investigators this week and we have 4 investigators now who are referrals from Members and the members are always there when we teach!! It is a huge blessing!!
June, one of those referrals, has a baptismal goal date for October 18 and we are really really seeing the progress and growth with him. Each visit, we always follow up on their book of Mormon reading and their prayer and mostly their testimony. And each time we ask him if he believes the Book of Mormon is true and if he believes Joseph Smith, he usually just answers a very simple yes, but you can feel the Spirit every time he answers. it is such a blessing!
Even though We don't have the most baptisms in this area and only a couple investigators come to church, I know that Heavenly father is looking out for us and we are being blessed in different aspects of our work.
One funny story this week- Dave our 9yr old we're teaching said the funniest things yesterday. We gave him a book of Mormon stories book so he'll understand the stories more and he read Lehi's vision, so we asked him if the fruit Lehi ate was good. He said (in tagalog), "I don't know! I haven't eaten it!" hahah we were dying! And then we reviewed the Restoration with him. In the pamphlet it has a scripture in Amos 8:11-12 talking about the world would be hungry, but not for food or water, but the word of god. So when we asked Dave what happened during the apostasy, he said "walang pagkain" (no food) and we all were laughing again, so we asked again and he said "walang ulam" (no ulam, which is what you call the stuff you put on rice). And we all just were laughing again. It was pretty cute:)
I love you all and hope you have a good week!
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