Week 67 - Sta Margarita 9/24/2012

so that's cool they are doing good and i don't really know the difference between the class or division but that's still cool and those coaches will never go away we just need to understand that not everyone has the ability to think about others before themselves all he is thinking is that the kids really want to win when in reality the coach is the only one that wants it in that way the kids that don't get to play as much don't like it very much and those kids parents want to see their kids play just as bad as the the good kids parents do and how are those kids who aren't as good going to get good if they never have the opportunity but any way the world will never change so this week has been really tiring we didn't get to teach very much but our attendance went up both in Gandara and Santa Margarita we had a great lesson about enduring to the end with our investigator and the best part is her mom who has been a member since before i was even born started testifying to her daughter about the Book of Mormon and how that she has seen so many new people get baptized and they just disappeared and she was always wondering why they left and they were able to stay strong and active and she come to the conclusion that its because even though the church was gone from where they lived they were always reading the Book of Mormon and that is so the way she just testified until she started crying the spirit was so strong and i have gained a stronger testimony of that book because of it and also that having members be present in lessons is so important and i have decided when i get home that whenever i have the chance i need to help out the missionaries back home so that the kingdom of God can grow where we live i have seen what the church being strong in one area can do to the entire city since my friend elder Cypres had a meeting with the mayor of Tacloban that's huge Tacloban is the regional headquarters and they had a meeting about what they could do to help the people out in the city so cool and i know that can happen any where as long as we can bring the spirit in any one can change we have a member here in Calbayog and everyone missionary in the entire mission has heard about him before the missionaries taught him he lost his job because he was an alcoholic and he was a chain smoker and at the same time he is what they call a bayut which in English is a guy who wants to be a girl so he cross dresses and its really weird but now he is amazing and is the reason why this city is the way it is he is rich and he knows everyone so he is constantly taking the missionaries to meet with the mayor and the city council and every other rich person he knows and they are teaching doctors and lawyers and just tons of wealthy people and that's really hard to do here in the Philippines because those people have big gates around their houses and you cant ever talk to them with out a friend bringing you there first and that is what brother Niki does he is amazing i just hope to be able to learn something from this man he has only been a member for a year and i feel like he knows more about the gospel than any one else in this mission he is amazing he just gets it and i have learned a lot the reason why people are the way they are is because of their understanding of the gospel not because they can cite scripture but they understand and apply it to their lives and that is how we progress here on earth it has nothing to do with how much money we have but how much we understand the gospel and i love it so much i just hope i had a greater understanding of things but i feel like it will come with time as i continue to study and ask the Lord for help i will learn all that i need to learn well sorry about that that definitely wasn't my plan for my email today but the family is dong better we helped them a little this morning to put the walls up on their new house and the members here are amazing one of the members hired a carpenter to go work and build their house and 2 others bought the stuff they needed to put the roof on and they are just amazing and this week is going to be really tiring again tomorrow we dont get to work because we have district meeting and then we are traveling to catbalogan and then wednesday morning we are going to tacloban and then coming back and wont be back until like 12 at night wedneday and thursday we are going to take picture of an apartment in gandara so that hopefully they will have their own missionaries next trasfer and then friday we have our weekly planning and then saturday is a full day of work then sunday no work again and then next week is elder mirandas last week in the mission and then the week after that is transfer week so its going really fast but its been really hard but its so worth it im learning alot well love you all and thanks for you prayers i can see whats coming from it well next week

 one is a key chain thing a member gave me super cool and the other is while riding on a boat on the way home super beautiful in Gandara