Last Pday Elder Lougee and i took a stroll in the market of Nova bayan and tried to find some cool things to buy but man am i picky hahaha i could not find anything. Elder Lougee found some sunglasses but i could not find any, and a lot of them were kid sized so they wouldnt fit on my head...or at least i hope they were kid sized. I never thought and still dont think i have a big head...or maybe they are just filipino sized glasses...anyway i just didnt see anything i liked even if it was my size. But we did get ice cream while there and had a fun time browsing. and after we ate at mang-inasal thinking that it would be suitable to have a cheat day but we both felt sick after! it not worth it hahaha! so we are sticking to our gulay (vegetables)
because our zone along with others had really clean apartments, we one a free pizza party, that was awesome! For our zone of 25 people we got 22 boxes. We walked into the pizza hut close to mission office and the lady at the counter did not see this coming but we totally dropped the bomb on her that in like two hours we need 22 pizzas made she seemed pretty shocked and went back to the chef who later said "Kaya!" or "we can do it!" It was a delicious success. The zone meeting we had was great because we also tried to increase our goals and talked about things that can improve. Really with these numbers we have it isnt about the numbers and getting a high, what its really about is increasing efforts to help more come unto Christ and tracking these numbers of people you teach and extend to get baptized and baptize helps you see and evaluate your own efforts in the Lord's service. Why not make big goals to help others? it is fun! and more end up getting helped!
Later that day we also were walking and we saw a white guy on a bike with his family. usually white people in the philippines want nothing to do with us. sometimes they will completely ignore us but this guy stopped on his bike and waved to us, so we said hi and we continued until we later saw that he had turned around and stopped us and said "hey! you guys know how to speak tagalog?" or in his american accent he said "TAG-UH-LAHG" and we said yeah! and we had a conversation. It was great he was interested in us and being here and my companion said the all time funniest way to ask anyone to listen due to lack on conversing with white people about our message and said something like "we are missionaires and we teach anyone that will accept us in to hear our message, can we visit you?" it was hilarious but he totally said yes so maybe that is the way to go, the humble approach. It was funny though because he was a little shy to talk to us as well. We will see him later tonight so we are excited...oh by the way, his name is Dave.
Yesterday we had dinner with a member who just doesn't have much money but she wanted to feed us, so yesterday we went over and she just amazed us with the food she made and the warm heart she had brought and the excitement she had for us to eat with her family, it touched my heart. i love that family so much and i know Heavenly Father does to and watches out for them.
We have had the great opportunity to meet so many good people, like the Pyyyyylana family and also another family of a member. They didnt come to church this week and we have been working with the Pyyyyyylana family but we will help them. Sister Pyyyyylana is a member who had been baptized in Cebu but her family is not yet baptized, she has such a wonderful family and children. We also had two investigators baptized Kyyyyiray and Nyyyyyicole. they are 10 and 11. the mom was also a member from somewhere else and they were so excited. it was amazing being able to be able to be an instrument to give Kiray the gift of the holy ghost. I feel that the blessing was guided for her specifically.
I love this work. Honestly i am as happy as i sound, it is great. These people are great, Christ and Heavenly Father are great and this work is also great. I love you all, you are all great too!
Elder Wright
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