PIZZA IN MY POCKET (NOT A HOT POCKET) (Week 34, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, Elder Arandia)

HEY ALL YOU PEOPLE! I really hope you all are doing great! as for me, im doing pretty good! we had a good week! i cut a little down on the peanut butter...oh snap i mentioned peanut butter again! i cant help myself people. but anyway before i get into things, i got another food story because this picky american aint gonna be satisfied with the real filipino pizza here. so last week was chicken feet (eating nasty chicken feet skin) , another time was crab and corn soup (drinking an egg dropped in canned corn water) and the first time was balut (egg fart). now im gonna talk about what happened this week or yesterday the filipino pizza. so for any of you that have seen a lunchables pizza and thought yeah that's alright or maybe yeah i wouldnt eat that or why would anyone ever want to eat that...well im telling ya, there is worse this stuff literally looks like a lunchables pizza but the sauce is horrible i think it might be there sweet banana ketchup or some sort of ketchup and then the meat on there...i dont even know where that comes from or what animal would even offer meat like that, nevertheless it is thrown on to the pizza and they eat it still. let's not get started on the cheese on that thing...im not a cheese guy but other americans here dont even appreciate the cheese here. ANYWAY when i saw the box of pizza opened to us, i took a good gander at what i knew would be another moment of despair and i thought almost heard "RELEASE THE CRACKEN" as that box of nastiness was opened and i saw what i knew would be my death. I hesitated to grab a slice and filled up on some sparkly orange soda...eventually i knew suffering would come. I regrettably reached for what looked like the most bearable slice of them all and took a bite...i knew i could not finish. i took another. thankfully i could still swallow  the pizza and there was soda which had unseen powers to rid the taste of all evilness, but i still couldnt finish. when all hope seemed lost i knew what i had to do. my companion talked to them and as they were distracted i slowly brought the pizza down and slipped it into my left pocket of my nice grey pants...it was worth it and i survived.

i hope you enjoyed that, besides that moment we had other things happen this week hahaha so dont worry there is more hahaha. 

One day we met with this lady and we had the wonderful opportunity to bless her sick baby. we were teaching a lesson at less active's house and she came over and was a little drunk and was listening to our listen and after we shared our message with the Lyyyyyys family, she asked if we could bless her baby because she was told by the less active family that we could give her a blessing. she asked us if her baby could have one or if she has to be a member and what i told her is all she needs to have is faith in Christ and faith that we hold priesthood power. and when she answered saying that she believes i felt the assurance of the spirit tell us that we should give the baby a blessing and it was a good experience. it is so amazing to do the work of the Lord and you get to work as representatives of Him and serve people.

Our investigator Jyyyyy passed her baptismal interview and is still set for next saturday! we are so excited! she bore her testimony to us the other day because we had an interview and i started having feelings or thoughts that maybe she wasnt ready and then i had a prompting by the spirit that we should all have a testimony meeting and Jyyyyy poured out her heart to us for the first time about how she wants and is read to be clean through baptism and follow Jesus Christ and it was wonderful!

another day in my studies i had a really good time and found something that i want to try to help myself in life and that i think can help all of us really. because if we want to be successful, the key is diligence. and i feel i was inspired on how to be diligent! I spent like almost all of my personal study on it. I was reading in the Preach my Gospel under Christ-like attributes because it had been a while since i have studied them and I decided to study diligence because i want to be more diligent in all things. I read the first sentence and in there lied what might be the key to diligence. It's simple, we need to S.E.E.C. to be diligent in all things. We just got to S.E.E.C. and then we be more diligent. But what exactly is S.E.E.C. it means we need to be STEADY- when striving to be diligent we cannot just expect ourselves to be diligent all at once but we have to focus on things we need to do better and correct those things one by one and become steadily more and more diligent. really make a plan to be more diligent! Second, EARNESTLY - we need to have true desires to be hard working and to do this work of the Lord or really any work. We have to really give it our all to be better and to do whatever work we are doing. Third, we need to be ENERGETIC- love the work youre doing! enjoy it! dont wear a frowny face and slouch around all day. if you dont really love something you aren't doing then learn to love it! figure out the reasons why whatever it is your doing is good and what will be the good results and make them your motives! Finally, CONSISTENT- we need to be consistent in our efforts of being more diligent. if we do start to get off track we got to pick ourselves up and keep going but we also have to really avoid those things that will/may slow us down so are progress isnt stopped. so you may need to plan to prevent yourself from being lazy! And when i figured this out it really just made sense, if we all did these things and really worked on being STEADY, EARNEST, ENERGETIC and CONSISTENT in our work or if we will S.E.E.C. to be diligent in all things, we will have success! so those are things that i thought about that i really want to work on to see more success not just in the mission but in my life even after the mission, so i am really going to try and work on that and i will tell you how it goes.

But again i really think that is some thing we can all always remember and the Lord has promised us that if we are diligent we will be blessed. D&C 30:8

"Wherefore, give heed unto these things and be diligent in keeping my commandments, and you shall be blessed unto eternal life. Amen."

I love you all so much and i hope you have a great week!

Elder Wright