Kamusta, tanan! It's another nice stifling hot warm-season
day in the Philippines :) it just means that I have to bring a
handkerchief or small towel with me, or I’m likely to get drenched in sweat :P
Things are going really well here in Danao - we've got plans
going to build a small meetinghouse up in the bukid part of our area!
There was one awhile back, but it burnt down and since then, the members
couldn't pay the 80 pesos to get to the church here in the city and so they
went inactive. But we've been going up there every week (really
expensive) because there's so many that want to be taught - if they start the
group sacrament meeting up there, we'll need a pair of missionaries to be
assigned up there (in our ward) because of all the people wanting to be
taught/baptized up there. It'd be perfect, because that one other house
would be perfect for 6 missionaries! We'll see what the revelation for
that is though.
Anyways, Elder Benjamin is learning a lot and working hard when
we're outside of the apartment - whenever we go on splits, between the hours of
3 and 8PM, he gets about 10 lessons or more! It's not too hard up in
Cahumayan because it's filled with eager saints who don't have the plete to get
to church anymore.
It's been really good to go over the material again that I did
in my training - as I teach it to Elder Benjamin, I seem to learn even more
about it, and realize what I need to work on.
One thing I found out I'll always need to be working on is my
language - I just found out that whenever there are two English Elders teaching
an investigator, the investigator tends to not really understand, but since
they're foreigners, the person is too shy to ask what on Earth the missionaries
just said. We're trying to figure out how to remedy this situation, and I
just realized that no missionary will finish learning the language and should
always be doing language study.
so yeah - that's about it! Hope everyone’s doing well and
everyone is feasting daily upon the words of Christ and praying often that ye
may come off conqueror and following the spirit that ye may be filled with it
unto the rejoicing of your souls!
-usa ka kakugihang misyonaryo ug sulugoon sa Ginoo, (-a diligent missionary and servant of the
Lord,)
~Elder Dallin Carlson
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