Reaching Goals By Faith and Works
This week was pretty good. We worked really hard because we set a goal
to teach 32 lessons this week. It is the standard that our mission
president has set for our mission. it is hard to get but we talked to
everyone we saw and we got our goal. we also got 33 new investigators
this week because most of our proselyting hours this week we just went
finding. this next week we are going to go back and try to teach all
the people we found this last week. hopefully they are all still
interested. haha.
The Philippines Through Elder Hickey's Eyes
The Philippines is actually exactly what i thought mexico or some
other poor latin america country would be like. I love talking to
people and seeing them progress and become closer to our savior. The
toughest thing about being a missionary here is just that so many
people don't follow our commitments. We have a Investigator (Janine
Maximo) who has a baptismal date on the 28 but she hardly ever comes
to church. All of our investigators are like that. we have 9 with
baptismal dates but none are going to be ready for their dates because
they don't follow through with the commitments we give them.
especially coming to church. Oh man there are so many things that i
realized that we have that many other people don't clean water, clean
environments, and we don't need to worry too much about the
cleanliness of our food in america, another big thing is health. So
many people here are sick, We see usually two crazy people, two or
three people with huge growths on their bodies, and maybe one person
missing a limb. usually a day. Everyone is too poor to get medical
treatment. I don't think they really have many traditions. they just
get to gether with thier families and set off fireworks.yeah we are
having a ward Chrismas party supposedly either me or my companion is
supposed to be santa! haha That might be bawal but i dont know. The
best thing that happened this week was that we had a inactive family
in our area come to church! we have been teaching them a lot. the
worst thing that happened this week is that we found out that one of
our investigators with a baptismal date basically can't get baptized.
because she is a live in ( people who don't get married but live
together.) and she cant get married because her " husband" is married
to someone else. and here in the Philippines it is next to impossible
to get divorced. It would be great if she just left the guy, but they
have lived together for five years, they just built a new house, and
they have a kid. Hopefully she will but it is going to be very hard
for her if she does.
A Priesthood Blessing Miracle
oh yeah! almost forgot. we had a really cool experience this week. We
were teaching Janine Maximo and her Grandma was their. And she was
really sick. So we offered to give her a blessing. She seemed really
happy that we asked. So we gaver her one. A couple days later we came
back and Taught Janine Maximo again and she told us that her lola
(grandma) felt completely better that night after we left.
This week was pretty good. We worked really hard because we set a goal
to teach 32 lessons this week. It is the standard that our mission
president has set for our mission. it is hard to get but we talked to
everyone we saw and we got our goal. we also got 33 new investigators
this week because most of our proselyting hours this week we just went
finding. this next week we are going to go back and try to teach all
the people we found this last week. hopefully they are all still
interested. haha.
The Philippines Through Elder Hickey's Eyes
The Philippines is actually exactly what i thought mexico or some
other poor latin america country would be like. I love talking to
people and seeing them progress and become closer to our savior. The
toughest thing about being a missionary here is just that so many
people don't follow our commitments. We have a Investigator (Janine
Maximo) who has a baptismal date on the 28 but she hardly ever comes
to church. All of our investigators are like that. we have 9 with
baptismal dates but none are going to be ready for their dates because
they don't follow through with the commitments we give them.
especially coming to church. Oh man there are so many things that i
realized that we have that many other people don't clean water, clean
environments, and we don't need to worry too much about the
cleanliness of our food in america, another big thing is health. So
many people here are sick, We see usually two crazy people, two or
three people with huge growths on their bodies, and maybe one person
missing a limb. usually a day. Everyone is too poor to get medical
treatment. I don't think they really have many traditions. they just
get to gether with thier families and set off fireworks.yeah we are
having a ward Chrismas party supposedly either me or my companion is
supposed to be santa! haha That might be bawal but i dont know. The
best thing that happened this week was that we had a inactive family
in our area come to church! we have been teaching them a lot. the
worst thing that happened this week is that we found out that one of
our investigators with a baptismal date basically can't get baptized.
because she is a live in ( people who don't get married but live
together.) and she cant get married because her " husband" is married
to someone else. and here in the Philippines it is next to impossible
to get divorced. It would be great if she just left the guy, but they
have lived together for five years, they just built a new house, and
they have a kid. Hopefully she will but it is going to be very hard
for her if she does.
A Priesthood Blessing Miracle
oh yeah! almost forgot. we had a really cool experience this week. We
were teaching Janine Maximo and her Grandma was their. And she was
really sick. So we offered to give her a blessing. She seemed really
happy that we asked. So we gaver her one. A couple days later we came
back and Taught Janine Maximo again and she told us that her lola
(grandma) felt completely better that night after we left.
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