this week was a good one, i have been writing a lot of essays. trying to apply to BYU again. It has been stressful but really good because i have learned a lot about myself through all of the activities that i have been a part of.
Last monday on P-day we spent so much time trying to find this person's house who we had met at church but the address that we got seemed to be no where to be found. When hope seemed to be lost we got a text from Cheril who we talked to at Angel's burgers and said that we could come over to her house to teach her. We had a great lesson and as we were teaching her she seemed to understand the lesson and wanted us to teach her family! We are looking forward to that.
We have been trying to visit more members so that we can grow closer and stronger relationships with them and we had a bit of a frightening experience when we found out and saw that one of the members we visited had a kid who had mumps and had an inflamed lymph node...she told us it was contagious. Well, nothing stopped her kid from giving us high fives and touching us and as a missionary in the philippines we didnt have anywhere to go and wash up so we went to the nearest member and washed up. I made sure to wash all the way up my arms and even my face. we got pretty scared at the possibility of us getting sick, of course we still love the member hahaha but no one wants to get sick hahaha!
Had another great experience of what happens when you always smile and say hi to people. We had the chance to teach this nice woman named Mayabelle. She seemed genuinely interested but it is too early to know if things will progress. But if we always smile and greet people,it shows that they will be drawn to us!
Estrella and her kids finally went to church it was amazing, we came to their house before church and made sure they all started getting up and moving and ready for the day! The members did a great job at showing friendship and love to them.
The other day we had the wonderful opportunity to meet with our ward's relief society president and we experienced a miracle with our relief society president giving us a referral, after we talked with her about our investigators and also served by giving her a blessing, it was a great experience. i learned that as a missionary, as we love the members and serve them, they will love and serve us too.
another thing i wanted to talk about was the great lessons that we had with a less active family and an active member family in sharing a message about Christ and his sacrifice, in this special time of Christmas. We felt the spirit really strong as we shared about the importance of Christ and heard the less active family share about their own experiences. It truly is a wonderful time to be a missionary. I love my Savior and i love being able to testify of Him. May we all testify of Him this Christmas season and always!
Elder Wright
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