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| Jordan basks in the joy of receiving his 21st birthday care packages that he was not supposed to open until June 9th. (Yeah, right - like that was gonna happen.) |
Well, this week was just alright. We had Mission Leadership/District Leader
Council on Tuesday which was awesome. It
was probably the most spiritual one I've attended. We talked, and will be focusing on conversion
this month. I learned so much about true
conversion and learned that "we can't live on testimony alone"
(Elder David A. Bednar). True conversion
is an endless process and it doesn't stop.
A lot of less actives tell us all the time that they "lost their
testimony,” which isn't accurate.
They just need to bring the light back into their lives little by little
until they are full of light once more.
The Spirit was just really strong during our meeting. After that, the APs (Elders Revillo and
Biggs) worked with us. Elder Revillo and
Elder Leduna worked together while I worked with Elder Biggs. It was fun working with Elder Biggs (from my batch)
as we reflected on the progress we have made during our missions. It has been an amazing journey.
We had an intense Zone CSP (service project) on Thursday
at a high school and did the same thing that we did last week, only a lot more
painful (as in sore). We approached a
giant dirt mount in the middle of the school and we had to carry the dirt about
40 yards by rice sacks and (my personal favorite, but the most tiring) a box
with two long handles that could only be carried by two people. We must've made about 30
trips each back and forth. We made it,
though, so that was good. I was only
sore for three days, so not a big deal (ha).
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| Jordan's zone after a hard day's work moving piles of dirt at a local school as a service project |
Elder Leduna and I spent a couple of hours one day just
finding people to teach (which we've been doing since the beginning of the
transfer, because some people just are not progressing, which is frustrating
and sad). We met the Tanghal Family, who
are sealed, but have been less active for a couple of years. We went because they wanted us to teach their
son's girlfriend, Josephine. She went to
church with them last week, so we taught her this week. Josephine's nice and receptive. Nanay Tanghal told her that she should not
join the Church simply because of their son or their family, but only if she is
fully converted to the Gospel. She has
potential, but she and the Tanghal didn't come to church on Sunday. (Ugh.)
We had three new investigators come to church this week: Ria and Ricka
Macapagal and Lexter Maniego. Lexter's
brother is our Branch Missionary Leader and he'll be baptized in July. I most likely won't be here for that, though,
which is too bad. Our other
investigator, Maritoni Santos, is supposed to get baptized on June 15, but he
didn't come to church, so now we have to start the countdown again, which means
now if I get transferred from Cabanatuan in a couple of weeks, I'll leave with
no more baptisms in this area. Pretty
rough. I'm just planting the seeds for
someone else to harvest. It’s all very
good. I am just happy working in the
Lord’s field, doing whatever job He wants me to do. We've found some great new investigators this
week, so hopefully we can go back to them this week with some progress.
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| Jordan paid a visit to Kalikid, his first area, here (from Jordan's left) with Nanay Rosa, Sister Rabe (who he taught & baptized) and Sister Adonis (who updates us with great pictures like this) |
Well, thanks again for all of your love and support for
me. I hope that you all have a great week
and that we have some awesome blessings for all our work. That would be the best birthday present
ever! Anyway. Take care everyone.
Elder Jordan "Legal to Drink and Gamble Next
Sunday . . . But Never Will” Royal
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