Well, another week gone by with pretty much the same
ending as last week . . . with no investigators attending church (which is always very disappointing for missionaries). I'll share with you the good stuff that happened this week during our finding . . . since I have already shared the bad part of the week.
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| Jordan at the mission office with Elder Revillo and Sister Balata |
One night, we were punted from our last appointment of the night (meaning, of course, that no one showed up). Our branch missionaries decided to go home,
but we still had an hour before we had to go home, so we decided to go
finding. While we were finding on this
one street that we walk at least three times a week, we were having impressions
to stop at this one house all week, but never went because we were always trying
to make it on time for our appointments.
Well, since we had extra time, we decided to go for it. As we knocked on the gate, someone came out
to greet us. We were about to introduce
ourselves when she stopped us and told us that she's a member from
Camaling. She said that she was staying at her cousin's
house with her friend from Camaling who's being taught and will be baptized
soon, so that was cool. We were able to
meet her cousins, the Macabagal family.
We were only there for a couple minutes before they brought out all of
this food for us. Elder Leduna and I
looked at each other and were grateful that we'd follow the promptings of the
Spirit on that one (haha). We were able
to teach them twice this week, and we had some great lessons with them. They have great potential, so we'll see what
happens. Elder Branham worked with me on
Friday, and we were also able to find some new investigators. Our best find was probably Tatay German,
Chief of Police. That was pretty
cool. Sadly, none of our investigators
came to church...again. We're still teaching
the Carrion Family powerful lessons by the Spirit, but just like our other
investigators, they are having trouble keeping commitments. I don't think that they understand that they
can feel the Spirit whenever they want IF they will simply make and keep
commitments. So, while it was a good
during the week, it ended rather sadly on Sunday.
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| Jordan and others working at an earlier service project |
Well, Marimar was forced to stop listening to our
lessons, because her parents (or their religion) forced them to do so. She was touched by the Spirit, but Satan
really fought back. I am not really
sure why they are members of a religion that removes their agency. Then another less active family
we have been teaching, the Sabados, told us that they don't want to listen to
us anymore, and that they decided to go back to their religion before joining
the Church. That was one of the most
heartbreaking moments of my mission - not because we lost a member, but because
Satan just completely took over. They
had previously told us that their lives were completely changed by the Book of
Mormon and their baptism into the Church. But, they have now forgotten all
of that. It was like they just turned
off the light switch and were standing in darkness. They weren't the people that I taught
before. Before, they were clearly
happy. I do not see that in them
now. We invited them to give the Book of
Mormon another chance before making a final decision, so we'll see what
happens.
We did a service project for Kim Arahan's less active
mother at her school, because she's the principle there. We made some cement and built a concrete path
on the campus. School starts up again pretty soon, so the schools are now
getting ready for the new school year.
Weird. It feels like summer vacation
just started here. (Oh, I miss summer
vacations.) We had a good time with the
project. Most of the Elders from the zone came, so we were able to get a lot
done. The local police came and helped out,
too, but the people at the school said that we were harder workers than the
police (haha).
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| Kyle receives his mission call to Arkansas |
Wow. It's so crazy how many of my family and friends have been called to serve missions! To my cousin Kyle, congrats on your mission call to Arkansas Little Rock (Spanish speaking) and for getting a touch of a foreign call by being sent to the Mexico MTC. Awesome. I'm sad that I won't see you before I come home, but we've got our whole lives to see each other :). You'll do great! Well, I hope that everyone's went well and that you'll all be protected still. Mahal ko kayo.
Elder Jordan "20 months na sa mission!"
Royal
Kyle opening his call last Thursday
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