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Monday, August 21, 2017
Isa pang lingo dito sa PILAPINAS! August 20, 2017
Hey everyone! I hope things are going good for all you! I love you all!
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Got some cool news that Denton got his mission call! Thats so cool that he got called to serve in the Kirabati Marshall Islands Mission! Same one as our cousin Jared! That is just so cool! That gets me pumped for life!
Also that Alynn is getting ready for her wedding! How awesome! GO FAMILY HAHA
This week was transfer week! It was a good week! I got a new companion! His name is Elder Leakehe! Hes from Australia, and hes Tongan! Its been cool hearing about how things are in Australia and his testimony is awesome! We've been having a good time out here in Cupang!
This week I just feel so grateful again for the gift of the Gospel! Man we take it for granted so much! Its so cool how it works!
Being a missionary is so frustrating ahhaa because you just want everyone to accept the Gospel ya know! I just smash my spiritual knowledge on them give them my testimony and what not then they say they're busy and stuff and don't know if they can meet with us and stuff and it gets me so frustrated. But it makes me think that all i can do is try my best and its their choice if they want to accept it or what not. But it sure hurts when they reject you because you know that they need this message. But other than that
We've been teaching some really good people! And we have some baptisms coming up sooon hopefully. Our investigators right now are really really really struggling with accepting the Book of Mormon. We try and try to help them understand it and its been going good actually. They just need to read the Book of Mormon! We promised them this week if they will read it with real intent and faith in Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost WILL manifest the truth unto them! And it was a really good week! I feel like we have some really good progressing investigators and its been making us happy being the instruments that God is using for this awesome work!
But man we were looking forward to this Sunday, all of our investigators said they were going to go to church and what not. but only 2 showed up haha. So we gonna try and be patient with them this week haha. Hey but 2 is better than none. So i just need to be greatful. They keep giving us the Filipino yeses. Frustrating.
But if you guys want, just send me your spiritual knowledge on why we need the Book of Mormon and how i can help these people better understand haha. I like 1 Nephi 13:40 and i like Ezekiel 37 16-17. But just send me what you guys used on your missions to help people and what ever you guys study this week, just send it my way. Maybe we'll just read that prophecy about how people reject the Book of Mormon and they say all they need is the bible to all of our investigators this week. That would be super entertaining haha. I love this haha. being a missionary is fun.
Thanks for everything everyone! I sure do love all you guys!
THE CHURCH IS TRUE!!!
Its been a fun week 3 new Elders got put in this area so i have to show them around haha its fun. Nothing too crazy we ate this week. Just good food that gets me fat. Maybe ill just stop eating like crap the last 6 months of my mission so i can come home skinny. But.right now im just enjoying this like crazy haha.
HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK
Elder Breinholt
Philippines Olongapo Mission
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Elder Breinholt and the Philippines! August 13, 2017
Well! It was an eventful week! The members here are just so great in the Philippines! We worked a lot with them this week!
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The work of the Lord never stops! It was a great time working with the members of this ward! They are so so so nice to us here and I'm super grateful i get to work with such awesome people! They showed their support to us missionaries like crazy this week with my companion Elder Nelson and my kabahay Elder Zamora going home this week by feeding us every single night! They are so nice to us! We appreciate it a ton!
This week we were able to help Bishop build his house some more and its coming along great! We also had some really awesome FHE's and had some great spiritual messages born! We were able to help our investigators come unto Christ and we cant wait to see what happens this week! We have some new ones to teach and some ones that are progressing great!
We just need all of our investigators to read the Book of Mormon! It truly is so important that we all read the Book of Mormon! Thomas S. Monson the living prophet has told us all the if we are not reading the Book of Mormon every day to please do so! That is our literal revelation from the living prophet! So lets get going! What are we waiting for! Everyone bust out your Book of Mormons and get reading! By reading it you will know for yourself that it is the word of God and that it literally was translated from gold plates! Its so true and we just hope we can be the instruments in Gods hands to help this read this precious book so that they can know it is true so they can be baptized into the church that has the keys and authority from Jesus Christ! I know this church is true and we have a heavy burden do share this gospel!
Some of the investigators this week who told us they were going to church this week didn't come, so we were super bummed because it was Elder Nelsons last Sunday. But all we can do is invite and they have their agency! Im so grateful Heavenly Father loves us enough and he gave us the opportunity to choose. I guess right now i'm just really grateful for everything so sorry. but its good! The Church is just so true! Everyone we need to go share it with everyone!
The Lord is guiding us to those who we need to teach, so I'm not too worried this week. Everyone have an awesome week and remember that you're awesome! Have a good week!
THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE!
Elder Breinholt
Philippines Olongapo Mission
Families are Forever! August 6, 2017
Hello po!
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The storms have let up as of right now so we are grateful! I'm actually grateful for the heat as of right now!
But this week was great!
On monday i went to Olongapo and got my Pilippino Drivers License! Elder Breinholt is now certified to drive in the Philippines! I wont be driving soon but one day hopefully I'll get the chance to drive here! That would be awesome haha!
So this week we followed up with Lordes and her family! She was baptized when she was 13 and became less active as the years went bye and she was married and what not! But we have been teaching her again! So this week we took some members over to her house and we had such an awesome lesson! We talked about eternal families and the reality of the Church! And one of the members we were working with grabbed a picture of the family and testified that this Church has the power to seal her family and that she can know that she can see her family on the other side. And it was so powerful! We all felt the spirit really strong! That Sunday she went to church with one of her daughters! And she saw some people that were baptized around the same time she was! We were so ecstatic! it was so awesome!
We also followed up with the family that came to church 2 weeks ago and showed the Joseph Smith video to them and invited them to be baptized by someone who holds the authority of God. They said yes, but they're not sure. So we will follow up with them this week!
Other than that! We've been working with a family, and the mom use to listen to us but she has been very busy so we have been teaching the 12 year old boy. We were going to baptize him this Saturday but we ran into some problems. So we have to wait a little. But he came to church! He has some decent fellow-shippers and the Young Men's President is going to talk to him! So were praying for that family!
The Church is true! I'm super grateful for this opportunity i have right now! It is so fun spreading the Gospel! It makes us so happy! Lets go spread it!
I ate some pig skin chips this week! They're super popular here and they're growing on me! Other than that, the food is so good here! And this week we set up an appointment with members and investigators to say goodbye to my companion! So its going to be an awesome week!
LOVE YOU ALL!!
Elder Breinholt
Philippines Olongapo Mission
JOSEPH SMITH WAS CALLED OF GOD July 31, 2017
THIS WEEK WAS LOADS OF FUN
It's been raining like crazy here in Cupang! A typhoon is hitting the upper part of the Philippines so thank heavens its not hitting our mission! The streets here are pretty nicely designed so it doesnt flood here so its really good! But its been super windy too!
So its been fun working in this weather. People give us the funniest looks like why the heck are you guys out its pouring haha! But these people need the gospel so, you gotta do what you gotta do!
Something HILARIOUS happened this week! So we set up an appointment with a family that we've been teaching for a little bit, but this time it was a little different! They invited their minister over! And he starts whipping out all these bible verses on us and is trying to just feed us all this stuff about his church! Were listing and what not haha and then he just tells us how its too bad, how hard we work every day that were a part of this church. He then continues to invite us to become ministers in his church! HAHA we kindly denied and bore our testimonys of this church and then it kinda got awkward. But were all still freinds still!
I feel good about this week! We strengthened a lot of our investigators testimonies! And we got a husband and wife to church this week! The wife was baptized when she was a teenager and then she got married and she hadnt been to church in a while and they went and stayed the whole time! So we were super happy for them! Bobby and his family werent able to come this week so were supper bummed. But we have alot to look forward to this week with our Investigators! Were supper happy! We've been working with a really good refferal but they work on sundays but the Lord will provide a way for them to come to church! We know it! And macmac is getting ready for his baptism soon Aug 13 we hope! Hes got some super good fellowshippers.
But just remember everyone that the SPIRIT is the real teacher! He will confirm truth to you through love, patience, and HOPE! He brings all things to your remembrence and he will comfort you when you do what is right! Fully activate the Spirit in your lives and i know you will be blessed!
THE GOSPEL IS TRUE! IM SO GREATFUL FOR THIS!
HAVE A GOOD WEEK!
no pictures sorry :(
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Elder Breinholt
Philippines Olongapo Mission
Hey its Elder Breinholt! July 23, 2017
What a fun week!
Highlight of the week! We taught a guy named Bobby! And we were teaching him for the second time and every other sentance he would ask a question. So we answered all his questions and helped him with his concerns! He then told us that he would be coming with his whole family to church on Sunday! And he followed through! Brother Bobby, his wife, and his 3 kids all went to church! So it was an awesome blessing that the Lord gave us! And we were super happy for him and his family!
Jesus taught that baptism by proper authority was required to enter into heaven. Jesus Christ was baptized. 5 And now, if the Lamb of God, he being holy, should have need to be baptized by water, to fulfil all righteousness, O then, how much more need have we, being unholy, to be baptized, yea, even by water!
It is so important for everyone to be baptized and follow the example of the Savior! And of course we cant get baptized every week! But, thats why we have the Sacrament! We can cleanse our selves every week by partaking of the Sacrament worthily.
But we've been trying to keep that thought in our minds this week, so that we can find these people that need to be baptized! So they're coming we hope!
I didnt eat anything to crazy this week! Just normal rice with like chicken or pork and vegetables! So nothing too crazy this week!
PICTURES! On pday we went to MT SAMOT! A huge cross on top of the hill that looks over the whole city! Its 50 stories high! Its way cool! And then some military was there so we got a cool pic! It was a good time.
HAVE A GOOD WEEK! I LOVE YOU
Monday, August 14, 2017
Magandang Umaga po! Elder Breinholt July 16, 2017
Good Morning po!
It was a great week! We saw the Lord's hand in our work alot this week! We were able to talk to and teach some awesome people this week! The people here are so awesome I love them haha.
This week we had many opprotunites to bear our testimony about the Book of Mormon. It was great to tell people about how it came about and to teach them how they can know our church is true if they will read it. And it made me just think how lucky we are to have the Book of Mormon and how we can know for ourselves if its true, or if its not! I'm very grateful for the opprotunities i got to bear testimony of the truthfullness of the Book of Mormon!
We also had a mother and her son attend church yesterday! And it was so cool because a family in the ward took them to church and everything! The members here are so cool in the Philippines and they're just so excited about missionary work! Were super super greatful as missionaries for the effort of the members.The people here are the best. They are seriously so awesome!
Also the family that we were led to on fast sunday, weve been teaching them and the Dad of the family went to church! He also stayed the whole 3 hours! So were super greatful for all the blessings the Lord has been giving us!
Another good week! Thanks for Everything! Pictures will come next weeeek! Sorry!
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Elder Breinholt
Philippines Olongapo Mission
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