This week we had a Mission Tour with Elder Wakolo and his wife! They are both from Fiji! Sister Wakolo got up to the mic and said Bula Vinaka and right away some others and I said it back. Thats 'Hello' in Fijian. The other Missionaries didn't know what was going on. It was great to get to know them and learn from them! I've already been able to apply what they taught in the work.
This week we were really focusing on Nanay Bulatao and making sure everything was going to go smooth for the baptism. This week we taught them how to do Fhe and we taught and talked about Family History. Her son Mark that is 16 has already done baptisms for the dead for Nanays Father. So they are getting a great start. Her Baptism happened this Saturday! I was humbled by the opportunity she gave me to baptize her. She was afraid that Mark wouldn't be able to lift her up out of the water. So she wanted me to do it. It went great! She bore her testimony and it was really touching! They are so awesome!
This week even tho we lost a couple of days because of traveling to the meeting and the baptism, we were able to find lots of new people to teach. One of them being a refferal from Brother Noel in my last area. He works here in our area and we taught a family of 6 with him! It was awesome. They were going to go to church but it didn't work out. So that was a bummer. But hopefully next week! Some of the others we taught are people who were taught before by missionaries. One family we taught had been taught by the missionaries before but the Dad and one of the daughters weren't baptized. But we taught them and extended a baptismal invitation to them and in straight up English they said "sure why not" We were taken off so much! But yeah they committed to baptism!
Im still having fun out here and enjoying the Philippines. The other day was really funny. Our new housemate is brand new to the Philippines and we were fed Dinuguan. Its meat stirred in with a Pig Blood gravy. So he took it not knowing what it was. His reaction was really funny when we told him what he ate after!
Love you all!
Elder Breinholt
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