Week 79 - Sta Martarita 12/17/2012

so great week not perfect but it never will be just happy that we were able to follow the spirit but just to comment on yur lesson i am actually in Ether in my personal Book of Mormon reading well at lest one of them receently i decided to start reading a new Book of Mormon after i reach 2 Nephi everytime so that eventually i will be in almost all time priods of the book of mormon all at the same time but every time i start reading a new one i pick a new topic to study about so the first one is an assignment given to us by president andaya and that is to mark the saviors name everytime it is mentioned mark christ-like attributes, anything from the doctrine of Jesus Christ or faith repentance baptism and enduring to the end and marking every where that Jesus speaks and its really cool and the new one i start is members of the God Head and any mention of the atonement whether it is some one using the atonement or it directly mentions the atonement and its helped a lot but any way i found it interesting in Ether the other day when it says that the Brother of Jared no longer had faith because he had seen Jesus and could no longer have faith because he had a perfect knowledge super weird to think about but then Jesus commands him never to sin again and i just thought its pretty crazy that he actually did that and how hard that is to accomplish but ya recently my and elder dariagan started to have a little bit of contention and i wasn't sure what was wrong i just know something was bothering him and it worried me that he didn't want to talk to me about it so one day it got really bad and i just got on my knees and asked for the strength to be able to talk to him and not just try to keep going as if nothing is wrong because work is not effective if that happens and so we talk for a few hours and finally after a while he opened up and told me how he feels like i dont include him enough and that i really dont understand the people we are around and of course it hurt but it was true majority of the Filipino missionaries in the mission don't really like me and at Christmas conference elder dariagan had the chance to be with them and not me and they talked about me a lot im not happy to know that the mission is talking bad about me behind my back but it helped a lot has changed in our work and it has been an answer to my prayers i recently decided i needed to ask our Father in heaven to humble me because i have been feeling really bad and i wasn't sure why so this all happened last week but this week we have been able to do some great work over a few days we worked Friday Saturday Sunday and had some really good lessons and we are able to teach with unity a lot more and i really just made it a goal that even though i am training that that doesn't mean that all i do is teach but i decided i want to just learn from him about him and really just every one around me and a lot has changed people are more willing to talk to us now that we are working together as one we have some really good new investigators and i know this has nothing to do with us but it is all the Lord but we are teaching the part member families that we have been trying to teach ever since i got here and they actually just decided to join in on the lesson instead of just leaving like they used to do and on Sunday our attendance came back up to almost 50 and we had some referrals from the branch and we are going to go teach these people later this week so that we can help the members out with their missionary responsibility  and things are going good we have a FHE later this evening with a family who i have been trying to get a FHE with eer since we got here and things are really just starting to fall into place me and elder dariagan still have our differences but that doesnt have to effect our work as long as we keep talking and keep setting goals to more fully adjust to one another and embrace one anothers background and keep working toward becoming more Christlike missionaries with one another i have seen recently there is no difference in missionaries new or old in the mission we are all even working towards the sme pupose and that is to become like Christ and help the Fathers children in the process and its going to be an exciting time when we finally get to the point to where we understand all the Father wants of us here and get to apply it to the rest of our lives i love you all and know that you all have so much potential and i pray for you to be able to reach that potential all the time and i know you will all some day be ready to stand tall in front of our Father in heaven and just talk to him face to face as a friend as he should be our friend well thank you for the letter and thank you for sending that package out but i dont really know to much about the skype thing yet but i will be emailing again on dec so i guess ill tell you then if not we may be able to text you or something i really dont know but ill be sure we get to talk dont worry oh and i gave my face book password to a member here so they could add me as a friend but they said you posted a bunch of stuff on facebook thats cool i figured my face book still had the picture from when i left but i guess not thanks you mom your the best