Magandang hapon po sa inyong lahat!
Kamusta!
Sounds like another
busy and fun week back on the home front! Weird that Kyle and Aimee are now off
to the part of being tossed around the United States in order to do big kid
doctor stuff. Today we were finally able to do something other than clean. It
was fun to be able to travel through a couple of kilometers of nothing but rice
fields on a caliglig (a bunch of metal welded together to make a big cart with
wheels and a long front end with another set of wheels and a 20 horsepower
motor strapped to the top) in order to get to a member's place to hang out and
get a bunch of coconuts to make fresh coconut juice. I also got a good picture
with a pig and pig face that only Bill would love.
This week was a great
week of teaching a lot of appointments and having 4 investigators come to church.
I think I also heard the best excuse yet for not being able to read from the
Book of Mormon. I've heard a lot of excuses before, but I think this is my new
number one. When we asked one of our investigators why she wasn't able to read
the BOM, she said that she wasn't allowed to because she had to wait 7 months
after giving birth (just had a baby last month) before reading anything or else
her eyesight will go bad. That is probably the weirdest wise tale I've heard
here so far. I had to force myself to be nice and not tell her that was nothing
but a joke, but when we left I just couldn't help but laugh.
This week I also
realized how sad some people are as a result of the apostasy and why there are
so many different religions. One lady told us she wasn't allowed to pray
because in her religion, only the pastor can pray and talk to God. How sad is
that that people aren't even allowed to talk to their own God? Fortunately,
after spending several minutes explaining to her that Our Heavenly Father loves
to hear the voices of ALL of his children, we were able to get her to pray.
Something so simple, but yet so important. With a different lady, it was a
great experience to see that even though she didn't properly address Our
Heavenly Father and close in the name of Jesus Christ, she cried out in tears
as she gave thanks for the things in her life and talked to God. It was a neat
experience and the Spirit was so strong, and helped me understand that God
really does hear prayers from everyone-even if they aren't perfectly
'correct'.
As we started
focusing on and teaching a 16 year old girl after showing great interest in the
BOM and wanting answers to life's questions, I realized how important the light
of Christ is in all of us. After teaching her more about the BOM and her
interest kept peaking, we asked her to come to church. She said she would love
to except she is actively involved in the choir and youth programs of her
church at the same time. It is always great to see great people of different
faiths, but I couldn't help but wonder to myself, If she is truly devoted to
her religion, why is she listening to missionaries of another faith? Then I
remembered that that is the job of the light of Christ in all of us-to keep us
interested in the truth, even if they don't know it yet.
Well my back is
sweaty from sitting in the chair too long and Elder Llorin is waiting for me,
so I'd better wrap this up. Which reminds me-mom, if you could get around to
sending a simple package to Elder Llorin, that would be awesome. He's been out
here for over 4 months now and hasn't heard anything from his family and gotten
only 1 small note from a ward member. I'll leave it up to you if you want to
make it anonymous or not. He is good at English, so that shouldn't be a
problem.
Thanks for all you do
and keep on keeping on!
Mahal Kita,
Elder Nay
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