Another good week! (Week 50, Fairview, Philippines, Elder Kauffman)

Another good week! Honestly how can there be a bad week! The mission is great, my advice...serve one. anyway the days are always pretty crazy but something that my mission President focuses on is having a good mindset. taking everything as a learning experience and dont criticize or judge things. also another thing that he said that stuck to me when things got a little chaotic yesterday was "Be still". when everything else around you is crazy, be still. I have heard that before but it takes on another meaning as i am growing and developing. we can all really learn from that because being still will always keep us in a positive position to be calm and make good choices. I love my mission President. He is a great man and the zone conference that we had was incredible this week. he talked about the different mindsets and we also had a good workshop about challenges in our life and how they are our friends to help us grow. it was a very inspiring week.

On monday we had some time that we spent at the mall and ate a good burger place, if you look at the pictures i sent the burger has bacon, two slice of spam and three big patties. it was SO GOOD. let me tell you, it hit the spot. Then at night we visited the Sxxxxarmiento family and gave them a little overview of lesson one and introduced ourselves. they are another part member family. we then did set appointments with the mxxxxxangrobang family and shared a spiritual thought.

Tuesday we had a service project and it ended up not happening...we got rejected at a service project... i dont know if it was exactly like that but we got there and they gave us stuff and then we waited and waited and nothing was happening so we just left hahaha so we killed some good hours with that but the coolest part was we got to go into this room in the barangay hall which is almost like a miniature city hall and it looked like an agency room with all of the computers and screens, it was super cool. later we visited some members in hope of teaching their friends and then we did finding.

Wednesday was the day we had zone conference and we went out and taught other members in the Sxxxxarmiento family and had a good lesson with Brother Mxxxxangrobang with us who is a bishop before. 

Thursday we got the chance to work with a member brother Gxxxxagarin and it was a good time. there were a lot of people not there but we had a visit with one member and he really helped them out. he wants to work with us next week.

Friday we had some cake and ice cream for Elder Kauffman's birthday so i used candles to make a 19 on the cake and put up a sign and also made chicken fettuccine alfredo for all of us. We then went to work with members and visited the Axxxxy family who is less active but we are helping them come back and are hoping to get their [child] baptized. we also taught the Sxxxxarmiento family again.

Saturday We had the chance to work with other members and actually found some potential investigators by being found from a member in a different ward and having us eat with some nonmember family members of her husband! how convenient! so that was fun!

Sunday i last second was invited to speak but it was on missionary work so it wasnt hard. and we worked on increasing missionary efforts!

It was a great week and even better weeks to come!

I love you all!

Elder Wright