It's been another
great week in the Philippines. We ended up getting to talk to our investigator who didn't show up for her baptism last week. As it turns out, she had
an unexpected family reunion of sorts. She is now on track to be baptized a
week from this coming Sunday, so we are super excited about that. We actually
ended up having a pretty decent turn out at church this week. We had a
less-active family that hasn't been to church since I've been here finally come
to church, which was way cool. I'm going to go on about our sacrament meeting
because it was pretty cool and pretty unique. We had no power at the church
this week because of a brown out which made for a pretty hot sacrament meeting.
It was super hard to pay attention. One of the cool things that happened is
that the primary gave a little presentation and our 11-year old investigator
was part of it. She recited the fourth article of faith over the pulpit, which
was really neat. The other unique thing that happened this week was towards the
end of the meeting, a little boy about 3 years or so old was standing on the
pew right next to me and slipped and hit his head really hard on the little
thing that holds the hymnbooks. He ended up with a really deep cut right by one
of his eyebrows and had to be taken to a local clinic for stitches. Ouch. It
looked like it really hurt.
In other news, we have
been seeing a change of heart in a lot of our less active members. We have been teaching
more boldly and directly to their concerns and they have really been opening up
to us. It has been a really neat experience to be there when they feel the
spirit helping them to know wheat we are teaching is right.
Lastly, we've been
able to have quite a few more members working with us this week, and it's given me
the opportunity to learn a lot of Bikol. Here goes:
Aram ko na totoo an
simbahan ta, at si Jesucristo an satuyang kaguragnan. Aram ko na kung magtubod
kita saiya, magsolsol kita sa satuyang mga kasalan, magpabunyag kita sa totoong
simbahan pwede kitang makalaog sa saiyang kaharian.
That made me sweat a
little bit. I think that last word might be tagalog. I'm not sure if it works
in bikol too or not.
I love you guys tons!
Padangat ko kamung
maray!
Elder Benjamin Merrill
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