this week was fun halloween and then nov 1st and second is basically party in the cemetery. yay! so lots of people weren't home because of that but we were still able to do most of the things we had planned. that's kinda funny that the bronco is going and mom got hit all in the same week. lol.
(I got rear ended, and the Bronco Tyler and Jim bought last week, is already for sale!)
but this week we didn't have a lot of lessons but the ones we did have were amazing. with the new planning we started doing, we are so prepared when we get there all we have to worry about is that there are no distractions. we started off going to a member and during my reading i found a verse, i don't remember exactly where it is now, but it says - in a little wrath i hid my face from thee but with everlasting kindness will i welcome thee into my kingdom. or something like that. she read the first line and started crying and said tamat elder. i was like wow, that really works. since that was our first lesson using the new planning. turns out she hasn't been at church because her kids all moved out and she had a tooth ache. so the spirit said offer her a blessing and i kinda was hesitant but i finally did she said yes, please elders i was hoping you would ask that. yay im so happy now that i have been having lessons like that all week. we have one sister, she cant get baptized because she has to get married first, but we wanted to make sure she had had a spiritual witness. so we had her pray like elder top had me do and ask god if he loved her but her friend that was there started laughing and was very distracting after the prayer when we asked her to wait for her answer. me and elder andrus felt it, so we just asked her to do it before she went to sleep. i really want all of you to do the same its amazing what it can do for you. if you haven't done it yet because "sure God loves everyone" but do you know for yourself that he loves you individually? it makes life go so much more smoothly because you know God loves you and will provide for you everyday if all you do is ask. like in conference a couple of the talks were about asking for small things like to find change in the road or for his 5 dollars to still be there, because if God will answer those simple prayers why wont he answer the big ones? i really think this is a big part of our life, knowing that there is always a way to know.
another fun lesson we had was with this old guy i think his name is loren not really sure, he is hard to understand. but, he asks ridiculous questions. our member started to bear his testimony about receiving answers through pray, he started out saying i know that if you have a question... and the guy said, "i know just say something, i already asked all my questions." we were like no for God not us. lol he is so funny he only has one leg and is in a wheel chair and when i asked him to come to church he said no that's to hard i cant walk. lol yay but ya either way he is awesome.
also i was able to give a training on tuesday about the new planning and how we as missionaries of the Philippines Tacloban Mission need to ask God if he loves us, and if we know that he loves our investigators as well we can better love them and know exactly what they need to go about their life.
so this week is transfer week and elder Andrus keeps telling me he is going to transfer and that i am going to train someone new. i don't know about that but i do think he might be transferred. and the letter you got from lisa, the same thing happened here in dulag with elder Andrus and his last companion and he is still learning new stuff about this place everyday. (our friend Lisa is on a mission in Washington. She wrote me a letter and told me that she was transferred into a new area, and her companion was also new to the area! So neither of them know anyone, or where anything is.) so i can understand that because i have still never been to a lot of my area because elder Andrus doesn't know how to get there. but this week i think we plan on going to some farther out barangay's.
but i want you all to know i love you and know that the lord loves you. I hope you all are doing your scripture study its one of the best ways to make your day go more smoothly, i learned that the hard way. i finished the BofM ( Book of Mormon) finally and started over and am excited to see what i can learn this time. i have one request for Christmas and i want you to try and guess what it is and ill tell you next week. its something that i wanted on all the time back home. (I am feeling like a really bad mom because I have NO IDEA what he wants!)
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