Hi!
Another transfer is gone and past - they always come and go so fast.
and now, I shall continue my District Leadership as I travel to the
far away land of Siaton, an area on the Island of Negros. I may get my
first taste of a really bukid area, but we'll see.... no one here
seems to have heard of "siaton" so I guess that's a good indicator of
how small it must be. I can't wait to get there, because I'll have a
lot of questions about what's been taught and how new everyone is in
my district because that'll help me know what they need for my first
district meeting there. I'm going to do all my packing today.....
(trying to stop thinking of all I need to do and focus on what i need
to include in my last email from Toledo) I've learned a lot here, and
done a lot here. I'm going to trust that my companion with everything
like other missionaries have had to do with me.
Last weekend, I had the privilege of baptizing someone who I had
started teaching two transfers ago - however I was transferred to the
bukid half of the area, but then after a transfer and a half away from
there, I find out that as the District Leader, I was the one to
interview! so all in all, I found her, and later interviewed and
baptized her, The week before I get transferred. I also got to baptize
the other two being (re-)baptized because somewhere along the way
their membership records were lost. so that was a cool experience.
oh yeah, I just remembered about the workshop of the assistants to the
president this last week - it was the exact same thing that I had
taught in my District meeting the week before! I felt like I was
really inspired when I heard about that.
On another note, Just to remind everyone we haven't seen general
conference yet. If we watched the first broadcast we'd be watching it
Sunday and Monday in the middle of the night. there's a re-broadcast
here in the Philippines this weekend so it's at reasonable hours of
the right days.
anyways, got to go!
-a missionary of the Lord,
Elder Dallin Carlson
Another transfer is gone and past - they always come and go so fast.
and now, I shall continue my District Leadership as I travel to the
far away land of Siaton, an area on the Island of Negros. I may get my
first taste of a really bukid area, but we'll see.... no one here
seems to have heard of "siaton" so I guess that's a good indicator of
how small it must be. I can't wait to get there, because I'll have a
lot of questions about what's been taught and how new everyone is in
my district because that'll help me know what they need for my first
district meeting there. I'm going to do all my packing today.....
(trying to stop thinking of all I need to do and focus on what i need
to include in my last email from Toledo) I've learned a lot here, and
done a lot here. I'm going to trust that my companion with everything
like other missionaries have had to do with me.
Last weekend, I had the privilege of baptizing someone who I had
started teaching two transfers ago - however I was transferred to the
bukid half of the area, but then after a transfer and a half away from
there, I find out that as the District Leader, I was the one to
interview! so all in all, I found her, and later interviewed and
baptized her, The week before I get transferred. I also got to baptize
the other two being (re-)baptized because somewhere along the way
their membership records were lost. so that was a cool experience.
oh yeah, I just remembered about the workshop of the assistants to the
president this last week - it was the exact same thing that I had
taught in my District meeting the week before! I felt like I was
really inspired when I heard about that.
On another note, Just to remind everyone we haven't seen general
conference yet. If we watched the first broadcast we'd be watching it
Sunday and Monday in the middle of the night. there's a re-broadcast
here in the Philippines this weekend so it's at reasonable hours of
the right days.
anyways, got to go!
-a missionary of the Lord,
Elder Dallin Carlson
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