Hey everyone! Merry Christmas! The Christmas songs have started here in the Philippines. It is time... but other than that I was able to give my first talk in church and my first blessing!
Mark had his interview for his baptism and he passed! So its going to happen this Saturday! Were super excited and we've been helping him get more ready. Hes been to church 8 times now. Hes a stud. Were going to baptize him at the church. It has a font.
So this week we got a text from my first area telling us we had to give a blessing for a member in the hospital here in the city. And it turned out it was Tatay Fernandez. This tatay worked with us so much in our first area and he is a big asset to the missionary work in Bagac(my1st area) but he had a heart attack. So we were able to give him a blessing and it went good! He has been recovering and hes getting better slowly. But it was awesome I was able to give him a blessing for the 1st time in the field.
We weren't able to teach our member referral this week. So we were pretty bummed. But we will teach her this week. Were going to make sure she understands the Book of Mormon and is reading it! And then we will move onto lesson 2. We were able to teach Bobby some more and his family. Hes such a cool guy. We also need to help him get reading the Book of Mormon and we haven't been able to teach his family in a little bit. So hopefully this Friday we can teach them as a whole family! We were also working with some of our not progressing investigators and it doesnt look like they are going to progress. Thats the family where we went to their church. But it is what it is. God has a plan. We will see what happens. But weve found some new investigators that weve been trying to progress. So its all good. Something else funny that happened this week was we were asked if we could be taught tagalog for a class video. So this group made a video of us and they taught us some words in tagalog for their class. We knew all of them except for 2. It was sunset and dimple. Haha but we acted like we didnt really know the tagalog. It was funny!
We also got to taste a fruit that is only here in the Philippines. Its called atis. Its sweet and you rip it open and eat everything but the seeds. Its super good and nice and sweet.
We also had our President interviews this week and that's always a good time! Its always nice to sit down with President Lacanienta and talk to him! Hes super cool and he has been doing great since he and his wife have been here!
Saturday night we got a text from the Ward and were asked to give a talk. Theres 4 of us in the ward so they wanted 2 of us to talk. So me being the longest in the ward i decided it better be time to chastize them. haha jokelang. And then we decided Elder Orchard was fit for the other spot. It went good! Except that i laughed at my own joke. I told them how Brian and Terri Ann were married in the Salt Lake temple and Janae and Connor followed them and then i said and hopefully i follow them too. Haha it was funny. But i was able to talk about the Book of Mormon. It went all good and it was all in tagalog. So i was proud of that.
But yeah that was pretty much the week! I hope you guys had a good week. I love you all. We just got back from a zone activity. We played sports and went to Mount Samot. Its a big cross on a hill and it has some cool history. Its basically just a memorial giving thanks to all of the solders who helped free the Philippines in the time of World War 2. The bases here in our mission helped that a ton. And my first area is from where they marched the prisoners all the way down to where we are now. So its super cool. Its super history. But then the USA nuked Japan so it ended everything. So go team. But that was my second time there. this time was better because it wasnt foggy like last time. but other than that
I'm grateful for this opportunity to serve in such a cool place. I'm really loving it more and more im here. It is really great!
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