Zone Conference
This week was a crazy week. On Wednesday we took a bus to
an area called San Lorenzo. it is close to Laoag. We slept at the elder's
apartment. It was a mansion!!! It was sooo nice! It has AC and two stories, 2
bathrooms (with showers)! Elder Pacala and I were pretty jelous! haha! We slept
there with 8 other elders.On Thursday morning we got up to go to zone
conference in Laoag. It was really good Our president gave a training on
getting investigators to talk more than we do. It was all about scriptures and asking
good questions. We learned a lot and we have used what we learned in our lessons. We have seen
a big difference in our lessons. I think the biggest thing that I learned this
week is that missionary does not mean teacher. haha. it means that we are the
ones who get up at 6:30, walk,and open our mouths in front of other people. I
learned this week that Heavenly Father, Christ and the Holy Ghost are the ones
that should be teaching. We are just there to help our investigators understand
that the scriptures are the words of Christ and what they are feeling is the
Holy Ghost. I have learned that this is the best way for investigators to gain
a testimony of what we are called to share. We had a reacent convert express to
us how she has known missionaries who at every appointment would endlessly
argue or explain doctrines but, the recent convert explained that this only
frustrated her and her family. They didn't want to do what the missionary said
because they felt everything he said, though true, was only coming from him.
She told us that they have learned so much more as missionaries used scriptures
and bore there testimonies. She also explained that they felt more prompted to
do as the scriptures said.
Typhoon Again
This week was also crazy because we had another bagyo(storm/typhoon).
It rained all Friday and we were drenched by the time we returned to the
apartment. On Saturday, the typhoon came. Our president texted us saying
"stay in your apartments! DO NOT WORK!" so the whole day we just sat
in the apartment and studied. We had a Brownout (blackout-not sure why they
call it a Brownout) so we studied by candlelight the whole time. It poured
buckets and the wind made it look almost like the rain was falling
horizontally! haha. A bunch of trees got knocked down and a bunch of branches
fell around our apartment. We were very blessed though, our roof did not get
dammaged at all. The only thing that happened to us is that a tree broke and is
now leaning on our apartment, but nothing broke.
We were supposed to text our district leader every hour
about our situation but we had run out of Load(min/text) on friday so we just
waited for our DL to call us. On Saturday our president let every missionary
eat then go to bed early!!!!! We went to bed at 7!!!! hahaha 11 hours of sleep!!!
It was Awesome!!!haha!
On Sunday, the rain had stopped. we went to church on the
way we saw a bunch of trees that had fallen over and a ton of broken branches
on the ground. Everyone's houses seemed fine. We still didn't have any power
and we also ran out of Gas! So we cooked our lunch on a small fire we made
outside with a few kind of dry sticks! haha it was like we were camping! We got
power again at night and we were able to use our rice cooker to cook our
food(rice and ulam).
IT was a crazy experience. We heard that our district
leader's apartment got flooded chest deep and they evacuated to a members home!
I have never been more thankful for our small bug infested apartment! haha!
Today we were able to buy groceries and we will buy gas
later so we are good now. We have also visited most of the members in San Juan
and they seem fine as well. We are very blessed that no one was flooded and
that all their houses are still fine. We were so happy to see most of them
still go to church on Sunday even though there was debri everywhere.
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