Magandang umaga po sa lahat!
So
not too much has happened since I wrote you all last Wednesday... We
just, you know, went to the temple, had zone interviews on Thursday, had
a no-work-Friday because of the typhoon, and then attended part of our
ward's "Family Day" on Saturday. :) Exciting stuff.
The
temple session was great! There were ten Filipinos receiving their own
endowments for our session. It was great! Zone interviews were great
too... our zone in Cogeo is the smallest zone I've ever been in... four
elders and ten sisters. Morong had five sisters and twenty elders so...
big change :) It was weird, realizing that it was my last zone
interviews... ever. Had a great interview with President and during
Sister Revillo's workshop she had us all do "makeovers". :) It was
definitely different. Wish I had video of the four elders cleaning
their faces... It was definitely the highlight of the day. Friday
morning we woke up to some serious rain and a little bit of lightning
and wind. Sure enough, we got texts from the A.P's informing us that
work was cancelled and we weren't allowed to leave the apartment... ay
naku. So, we tried to keep ourselves entertained during the day by
doing laundry and writing b.r.'s (kinda like yearbook entries) for
people. It was a long day... We were really happy to get out and work
the next day. Last week we were only able to work Tuesday, Saturday,
and Sunday in our own area so our numbers of lessons definitely wasn't
the best.... learning patience :) Despite our limited time working in
our area, the work is really progressing. We extended five baptismal
dates to investigators last week, three of whom came to church
yesterday. And we had a total of nine investigators and ten
less-actives at church yesterday. So great! We also had a great
Missionary Coordination Meeting with everyone yesterday, including our
newly called (and much needed) Ward Mission Leader. Love helping get
things organized and these next two months will be really exciting as
far as baptisms go :)
Few stories about the people
we're teaching... so we have these two investigators named Charmaine and
Christ (yes, he has a unique name :)). Charmaine's in her early
twenties and Christ is 14. Last Tuesday, we had an appointment
fall-through, again, and decided to go visit these two investigators.
They are both so great and ready for baptism, especially Christ, they've
just had a hard time with church attendance. So, I opened my
scriptures to share a scripture about faith with them... and then it was
the wrong scripture so I picked another one on the same page... and
both me and Sister Alailima were wondering where I was going with any of
this, so I just sat there.... praying really hard for the Spirit....
and we ended up talking about how sometimes we have to walk in darkness
before finding the light. We talked about how taking first steps, such
as attending church, can be scary sometimes.... but that we will be
blessed for exercising our faith in trying and that it will get easier.
We committed both of them to come to church and then.... they came to
church yesterday. Yay!! This is big step for both of them. :) Also,
two weeks ago we went "finding" using our ward directory. We were
searching for this less-active but we didn't even know where she lived.
It's really difficult to find people here sometimes... it's not like
America where everyone has house numbers and there's street names and
stuff... really, it's just kind of a big mess and you just have to ask
people everywhere to find where you are. Basta, we were walking and I
just felt like we should go up these stairs (there are stairs everywhere
here) and so we did. We asked the first lady we saw if she new where
30 cluster J was... she was all, "I think that's my house." Sure
enough, she was our less-active. We scheduled an appt with her for last
Sunday.... then weren't able to go because of the other typhoon.... so
we were finally able to meet with her last night. Had a great lesson
with her. She told us she fell-away because she doesn't believe that
Joseph Smith was a prophet.... we told her we understand why she stopped
being active.... knowing that Joseph Smith was a prophet is an
important part in knowing that this really is Jesus' church here on the
earth. Basta... great lesson, we're looking forward to going and
teaching her again next week.
I'm still loving life and just
focusing on making every day count. We will be going on exchanges with
the sisters in Sumulong this week! Wohoo!! Can't wait to get to work
in my old area :)
Love you all!!
Love, Sister Dickison
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