The Lord's work continues here in Carcar... people talk to me
all the time and tell me I'm almost going home, but it doesn't feel like it...
it doesn't feel like it's ending. maybe that's because we just keep doing
the work and I don't let it distract me - we got 31 lessons and 152 FTE's last
week, both way over mission standard of excellence - with Finding The Elect,
that's half again as much as the standard of excellence! We're super
proud of the work we're doing, and we plan to continue it till the end right
before I need to leave, and then we'll probably do splits so Elder Quinco can
still work while I'm trying to do all that stuff with packing.
One thing I'm trying to get done before I leave is writing to
each of my areas before I go home so I can make sure to get my email and Facebook
to the people I worked with and taught so I can have some way of following up
on my areas and mga tudloan.
And now for our teaching pool! we used to have an Investigator
with a baptismal date, but then her husband decided that he didn't want her to
change religions but he's fine with her taking lessons from us and so it's
confusing because she can go to our church instead of Catholic but she can't
join our church. I would love to talk to him and work it out but he
doesn't want to talk to us. We'll just keep teaching her and pray that
her husband's heart will be softened and that he will listen to us and become
baptized as well.
We also have had some really good On the Spot Teachings (OSTs)
and one of them was a family and part of a nearby family, all above 18, so I
have a lot of hope for them ... they all seem really excited about the message
except for the mom, she didn't even want me to write her name down.... but then
she was asking a lot about our religion (obviously interested) so we'll
see if we can help her to gain a testimony of our message and then if she prays
to know and comes to know then she'll have the testimony she needs to trust in
the Lord and our message enough to let go of whatever else is holding her back.
There's also an excommunicated member we're working with, he's
always studying his scriptures and coming to church, he's stronger than his
less-active partner! I figure it's only a matter of time before he can
write to the first presidency and get reinstated! He gave me a
Philippines flag as remembrance from him and his family
That's about it for this last email, running out of time now (in
more ways than one)
g2g! Hope all's well
with you and yours!
-og
sulugoon/representante sa Ginoo,
~si Elder Dallin Carlson
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