so really good week even though we didn't get to do much i stayed in
tacloban until wednesday night because i was going to go home monday
night get up tuesday and go to district meeting then do an interview
then get up at 2 on wednesday so that i could be back in TAcloban in
time for out leadership training meeting so they told us to just stay in
tacloban so we did and it was good i ended up having a really good talk
with elder leishman about mission life and things he is doing since he
is training and district leader too and we talked a lot about life and
things we were doing to stay more focused and then on tuesday morning he
came to me and said he was stuck and he hadn't finished his training yet
for district meeting so the two of us put our heads together and we
talked about the missionaries in his district and because they are all
sisters he wasn't sure what to teach them so we talked about their key
indicators for the week before and realized that almost all the sisters
numbers were teaching women so we prepared a pretty good training about
focusing on families since that is something that i really have been
doing lately and so has he because it is a lot harder for us to teach
because we cant teach without a man in the home and it is mostly always
women so elder leishman came up with and example of if we buy a package
of skittles we don't just eat one and throw the rest away we either eat
them all or give them to someone else to eat the same should apply to
missionary work we try really hard to find people to teach then someone
excepts us into their home and we only teach the one person that is
interested and a lot of the time even if that person gets baptized they
almost always go inactive because it is hard being the only one keeping
the commandments especially in your own home as all the missionaries had
seen this first hand but never thought of a way to change it the best
part was we had some unexpected visitors in the district meeting because
a few of the office workers and the assistants were just waiting for
president Andaya to finish a meeting they joined elder leishman was a
little nervous but did amazing we all came up with some good ideas for
teaching entire families rather than only teaching individuals a lot of
it was just us not inviting those who don't show interest but sometimes
the ones that don't show interest at first end up being the best converts
because they didn't want it but they did it anyway and God just does so
much for them but ya anyway great training and I'm so glad i got to be
there for it then we had our leadership training meeting and then we
went home and got home at like midnight then we got up and headed to
gandara first thing in the morning to do an interview really good but
again another individual and none of her family so i guess i need to
give a similar training in my district but ya then friday i got to go
and work for the first time in a few weeks i was a little nervous but
since elder dariagan cant really work yet i got to work with elder
Johnson we had probably the best lesson i have ever been a part of in my
entire mission and its all because of a member here in Calbayog sister
alyn she just got called to the manila Philippines mission and has been
praying about who she needs to share the gospel with before she leaves
and we taught her friend Joshua he is amazing we really just read the
introduction to the Book of Mormon and talked about everything in it and
then committed him to be baptized if he learned it was true thru prayer
and he told us how he has always received everything he has ever asked
for from God and we were prompted to ask him to kneel and pray right
then and there to know if the Book of Mormon was true and we did and
then we knelt and it was just like wow!!! the spirit just took it to a
whole nother level and then he stared praying and during his prayer he
said things like i know you are the only one that can answer me and you
could just feel the spirit working and then he stopped speaking for a
few seconds and burst into tears its was the most amazing thing ever the
he just said thank you i know you have answered me and closed his
prayer and we all sat down and sister alyn ,who had actually reffered a
different friend he just kind of came a long for the ride, was like what
you too i never would have thought you would be a part of this then we
asked if he had gotten an answer and he said yes then i was just like im
pretty sure everyone in this room just got an answer that the Book of
Mormon is true it was so amazing but he is the guitarist for another
church here and they are preparing for a huge Christmas presentation and
he said he needs to do some praying as to how to tell his friends and
family that he wont be a part of it anymore he is so amazing then
Saturday we started our preach my Gospel class to teach the members how
to do missionary work and remind the RM's it was cool i asked elder
dariagan if he wanted to give it or if he wanted me to go first so of
course i was first but it was good we talked about chapter one and in
chapter one in the back there are quotes from the prophets about
missionary work and one from George Albert Smith says we will not
receive exaltation in the celestial kingdom if we don't share the gospel
and then we read the missionary purpose and we talked about every member
a missionary and then read the section on what a successful missionary
is and the all just look a little put down but then we talked about how
anyone can do it it just takes a little bit of our time if we just take
15 20 minutes out of our tv time everyday and talk to someone about the
gospel then we are able to build the kingdom of God every day of our
lives so cool and I'm so excited we got a new branch president on sunday
and he is an RM and i am super excited to see what he will do we call
him brother Don don before but he is president cajuroa and him and his
wife are amazing and i see great things happening here really soon i am
really excited but we have very little time to work this month so i hope
we can get the members working during this time and then we will just
help them out in stead of the other way around well i love you all and
sorry my letter is kind of long but so much happened but i cant get much
more in i still have to email president andaya but thank you for
sharing my letters i only hope to help and encourage every one who reads
or hears my letters i love you all and ask you to pray for us as there
is a huge typhoon about to come through and the missionaries and people
need all the help they can get
