It's another bright sunny day in Danao! Me and my
companion continue to get along pretty well and learn a lot from each other!
It's weird to think that transfers are coming up in a week - it went so
incredibly fast!
We've been working pretty hard here, trying to get everything
together for group sacrament service for all the people that're far away and
the plete has become too expensive for them. There's so many families up
there! when we do splits and try to get to all of them, we pretty much
get to those that we know where they are, but there's still more where we don't
know where they are! We definitely could really use some Elders assigned
up there, because with that coming up, there's going to be a lot of people
interested in being taught and a lot of returning members needing
strenghthening and with all of that, we wouldn't get all the needed work done
up there even if we went up there most every day!
I've also been trying to keep a good study journal like my
mission president told me too; I've been trying to find the balance
between avoiding lightmindedness while being cheerful and getting along with
people. I've realized recently that you need to be their friend in order
to have their trust and so I need to be able to joke around and establish a
relationship without that interfering with our purpose there and also being
able to have them focus as we teach the spiritual. My whole mission, I've
been searching for balances, and that search will continue beyond this life.
In the meantime, I will study it out in my mind and in the scriptures and
seek the guidance of the spirit.
Exactly one week ago, we had some major progress with one of our
investigators - she had finally prayed to know if the church was true, and we
could definitely see that she had gotten an answer! She was more attentive than
any other time we had taught her, and she was asking about what she needed to
do to get baptized, what she can do to better follow all the rules, and all
that stuff. I'm hoping that we might be able to get updates on that from
missionaries over there in Bacolod where she lives and will continue taking the
lessons.
looks like I'm out of time - Hope everythings going well up
there!
og kakugihang misyonaryo sa Ginoo,
si Elder
Dallin Carlson
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