I'm okay y'all
Hey everyone. So sorry about last week for those of you who got worried about me. I am fine. Last Monday night I was called by Sister Andrada who sorta chastised me because instead of telling her and president that I was sick first, I told all you guys on email haha. Which led to my dad calling the mission to see if I was okay, yet Sis didn't really know why I wouldn't be okay cause I didn't tell her cuz I was busy sleeping and resting hehe. Sorry about it. Plez fergiv.
But this week was good. I played basketball on Tuesday morning so obviously I was feeling better. We had a baptism on Friday!! Bro. Angelo Bruce! We are gonna baptize his little bro in two weeks
as well. These two bros are awesome little dudes and they are really
hard to teach because they are so shy and quite and you can barely get
an answer out of them but we made it to baptism with one! So now we got
to work hard on his little bro. Their whole fam is Mormon and their
oldest brother is an RM and he is way active and is the Young Mens
president so that is good. Their parents are still inactive, They are
just nice little bukid farmers that live in a cubo hut and are shy and
quiet just like their kids :) they are awesome and we love them!
On Saturday,
our Elders quorum president held his daughter's 18th bday party (which
is a huge deal in the Philippines) and they 'killed their pig' so their
was lots and lots of food. There is a photo down below of its head :)
Some of the people took knives and sliced off part of the roasted skin
on that fat part of it's neck and started munching on that haha. Then
they had this long and boring Filipino 18th bday ceremony where there
was something about 18 candles and 18 roses and it took for ever and all
I wanted to do was eat the cake but we had to leave cuz we were already
there for so long, so I didn't get cake :(
It
is starting to cool down here a teeny tiny bit. It is still hot as
though. The rainy season is supposed to start some time this month, and
if not, in June. So I am really excited for it to cool down and get
muddy again. Yesterday when we were supposed to go to work, there was
this super random lighting and rain storm that lasted like 25 minutes.
The rain got way loud and heavy and the lighting and thunder was crazy
loud and scary but then it was all the sudden sunny again and clear and
super super hot. So weird.
I get to go to
Laoag tomorrow and I am excited for that! I get to eat out and go to the
so called mall that they have and buy stuff and then we have mission
tour, where we are being visited by President Ardern who is the
Philippines area President. Exciting! Also I get to skype my fam next Monday! SO excited!
That
is pretty much it this week. I am trying to draw closer to my Savior
and to Father through having more meaningful prayer. I have been a
little casual with praying and stuff and my relationship with God and
the Spirit is suffering a bit. The scriptures say to draw near unto God
and He shall draw near unto you. So if you want more miracles, more
blessings, more love, more Spirit, and more happiness and more God in
your life, get on your knees and start talking to Him. Don't just zip
through your prayer so you can go to sleep, or eat or study or whatever.
Talk to Him. Tell Him what you feel, what you think, what you want,
what you need. Then stop sometimes even while in the middle of the
prayer and just listen, listen for promptings and for guidance and for
feelings. The scriptures tell us that if we pray this way, the Spirit
will guide our prayers and we will even pray for the right things. I
know this is true and it works. It is also hard and it takes energy and
time, which is why Sometimes I just get lazy about it haha.
Love you all!
-Elder Andersen
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