Hey Everyone!
The reason my letters have changed and gotten a little longer is because I found a better way to manage my hour I have for emailing my mission president and my family: type one message about the area and people we're working with and send it to President and family! That way everyone can hear about how I'm doing and how the area is progressing.
So.. I may have forgotten to mention this, but I got hit by a car a couple weeks ago. .... okay, so I was barely nicked by a side mirror that could fold so it did right away and got all smashed in but I wasn't even bruised. It just goes to show how the Lord protects those on his errand. If I weren't a missionary I would have been seriously injured but as it happened, after awhile it barely even hurt.
Anyways, with the teaching, a few of the things that's tricky to teach is Sabbath Day and Tithing because with the economy, they often barely have enough money for food and so it's hard for them to set aside money for tithing and plete to get to church Sunday, much less not working on Sunday and not getting that pay.
lucky for me, I already have a story that's perfect for both keeping the Sabbath Day holy and tithing! for Sabbath day, I tell them about how it was hard for my dad to decide not to fish on Sunday, but he focused on the fact that it's a commandment and so we never go fishing on Sunday - then I tell them about that one time that we returned from fishing and another member who had gone fishing Sunday asked us how many fish we had caught, and we told him, and he said "I knew it! I knew you'd catch more fish today than we did Sunday and Monday combined!" That story is perfect not only because of the fishermen who are poor and go out in their little boats whenever it's not windy, but it shows how the blessings don't come until after our "obedience to the law upon which it is predicated" (Doctrine and Covenants 130:20-21)
The story that I always use for tithing also shows that principle - I tell them how my dad's family when he was still young bought a piece of land and started building a house and were trying to build a house before winter arrived but the money slowly ran out (from the building and feeding the large family) until only the tithing remained. It was really hard to make the decision, but they paid the tithing anyways because they had strong faith that the Lord would provide and bless them for their obedience to the law of tithing. The next day, a notice arrived in the mail that the price of the land had gone down and they received all the extra money from buying the land! It was much more than what they had given for tithing, and was exactly what they needed to get to the next paycheck. they knew it was a blessing from God, and they were very blessed for their faith and obedience.
I am so thankful for the examples my parents and grandparents have set for me - their examples of enduring to the end are enduring sources of inspiration for me and now for many investigators and less-actives and members in the Philippines.
So we have 7 people ready to be baptized on Saturday! I'm super excited, we have some super converted people and it's cool to see their desire to enter in this covenant with God by being baptized by someone holding the proper priesthood authority of God! Speaking of that, on the tenth we had three baptism and I got to baptize one of them! It was my first baptism and a super cool experience. I'm even more excited for these people we will baptize because there's a group of five of them and four of those, I was there from finding to teaching, and now to baptizing them!! All the other baptisms have been taught by the missionary mostly before I arrived, but this is totally different! It's too bad that my companion can't be there for it, he's being transferred Friday, but I know that the Lord has great things in mind for him as a zone leader in lilo-an. My next companion is Elder Seumanutafa and he's batch with Elder Deschepper, and he's going to be district leader here!
So there's a lot of changes here but they're all from the Lord so I'm super excited to see what he has in mind for us to learn and do in these new circumstances.
The reason my letters have changed and gotten a little longer is because I found a better way to manage my hour I have for emailing my mission president and my family: type one message about the area and people we're working with and send it to President and family! That way everyone can hear about how I'm doing and how the area is progressing.
So.. I may have forgotten to mention this, but I got hit by a car a couple weeks ago. .... okay, so I was barely nicked by a side mirror that could fold so it did right away and got all smashed in but I wasn't even bruised. It just goes to show how the Lord protects those on his errand. If I weren't a missionary I would have been seriously injured but as it happened, after awhile it barely even hurt.
Anyways, with the teaching, a few of the things that's tricky to teach is Sabbath Day and Tithing because with the economy, they often barely have enough money for food and so it's hard for them to set aside money for tithing and plete to get to church Sunday, much less not working on Sunday and not getting that pay.
lucky for me, I already have a story that's perfect for both keeping the Sabbath Day holy and tithing! for Sabbath day, I tell them about how it was hard for my dad to decide not to fish on Sunday, but he focused on the fact that it's a commandment and so we never go fishing on Sunday - then I tell them about that one time that we returned from fishing and another member who had gone fishing Sunday asked us how many fish we had caught, and we told him, and he said "I knew it! I knew you'd catch more fish today than we did Sunday and Monday combined!" That story is perfect not only because of the fishermen who are poor and go out in their little boats whenever it's not windy, but it shows how the blessings don't come until after our "obedience to the law upon which it is predicated" (Doctrine and Covenants 130:20-21)
The story that I always use for tithing also shows that principle - I tell them how my dad's family when he was still young bought a piece of land and started building a house and were trying to build a house before winter arrived but the money slowly ran out (from the building and feeding the large family) until only the tithing remained. It was really hard to make the decision, but they paid the tithing anyways because they had strong faith that the Lord would provide and bless them for their obedience to the law of tithing. The next day, a notice arrived in the mail that the price of the land had gone down and they received all the extra money from buying the land! It was much more than what they had given for tithing, and was exactly what they needed to get to the next paycheck. they knew it was a blessing from God, and they were very blessed for their faith and obedience.
I am so thankful for the examples my parents and grandparents have set for me - their examples of enduring to the end are enduring sources of inspiration for me and now for many investigators and less-actives and members in the Philippines.
So we have 7 people ready to be baptized on Saturday! I'm super excited, we have some super converted people and it's cool to see their desire to enter in this covenant with God by being baptized by someone holding the proper priesthood authority of God! Speaking of that, on the tenth we had three baptism and I got to baptize one of them! It was my first baptism and a super cool experience. I'm even more excited for these people we will baptize because there's a group of five of them and four of those, I was there from finding to teaching, and now to baptizing them!! All the other baptisms have been taught by the missionary mostly before I arrived, but this is totally different! It's too bad that my companion can't be there for it, he's being transferred Friday, but I know that the Lord has great things in mind for him as a zone leader in lilo-an. My next companion is Elder Seumanutafa and he's batch with Elder Deschepper, and he's going to be district leader here!
So there's a lot of changes here but they're all from the Lord so I'm super excited to see what he has in mind for us to learn and do in these new circumstances.
og misyonaryo sa
Ginoo,
Elder Dallin Carlson
Elder Dallin Carlson
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