This week started off awesome with a hike with some Returned Missionaries and us Elders. We hiked up a mountain that was supposed to have saftey houses from storms, but they didnt finish them. So Elder Jones and I made them climbing obsticales. It was a super fun hike and we ate some fast food after at Mang Inasal. A super good fast food restaurant here in the Philippines. So our week started out awesome with that!
This week was our last district meeting of this transfer. It was super fun to work with these elders and sisters. Our testimonies about missionary work have grown a lot. This week is transfer week. So there might be some changes to our district. So that would be sad. But we will see! But as a district we were able to have 6 baptisms this transfer, have an average of 20 people with baptismal dates, average of 8 people at sacrament and we found over 100 new investigators! We also taught 251 lessons this transfer as a district! Preaching repentance baby! wowooo!
This week we took an opportunity to serve our investigators in a new way. So these couple families have been avoiding us to be straight up with it. So we have been doing anything we can to get their attention basically. We have been trying to do anything just to help them. So this week we offered our help to them by helping them build their new bathroom. They thought it was a joke until we actually showed up. When we showed up they were mocking us thinking that we just wanted snacks from them because we were going to help. Oh.. you guys just want us to go to church.. blah blah. haha. But we kinda just ignored them and insisted our help. So we started helping by digging a hole, after about an hour of just working our butts off we got it 6 feet deep! As we were digging, we were able to talk to them about how all we want to do is help and were not just here to change their religion. Were here to help them. So they were grateful we helped and their bathroom should be finished in no time. We even went back the next day to help more! But it was a tender mercy that we were once able to bare our testimonies about missionary work to them again! So awesome stuff. I think they will open up to us and let us teach again! I felt like i was in Fiji again building bathrooms again mom!
Later that day something i do remember that was super funny.. We were doing some contacting and finding and we ran into a lady who thought we drank chlorine for the sacrament. She said she remembered going to church when she was in highschool and thats what she remembered. So it was a tender mercy that we were able to fix her wrong interpretation. We then moved on to us bearing our testimonies and inviting her to listen more of the message. Shes super cool tho! Shes just busy with her job she was saying. soo lame excuseee. we'll give her another push this week to listen more tho. But funny huh! Chlorine!
This week we were able to focus more on our recent converts and some less actives. I feel so blessed this week that i was able to share my testimony with so many people. One including the Amagna Family that Elder Jones and I found a couple weeks ago. They are actually Investigators. We came back to their house alot of times and no one was there. But yesterday Tatay and his daughter were there. But we just kept talking to Tatay and we told him we were not here to change his religion but to share what God has given us. We shared the unique message of the restoration and he was so interested. So we told him to pray about Joseph Smith!. But Elder Jones and I both felt as we were being helped to be able to deliver the message. I know that we were helped by the Spirit! It was so awesome! I cant wait to see what happens with it! I know the Lord is preparing them!
So those were some of the highlights of my awesome week! Love
Elder Breinholt
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Elder Breinholt
Philippines Olongapo Mission
