You know how sometimes people say you will find people that have
been prepared by the Lord, while we found some this week. We met a new
investigator and started teaching him and his wife the first lesson his
wife wasn't present, but in the next lesson
we quickly learned that she had been taught before. Actually her
entire family are members, they just went less active and so she was
never baptized. She knows most all of the basic things we teach. We
started teaching and they picked up very quickly. After
we challenged them to read and pray about the Book of Mormon they came
back and told us about their experience. They said they felt a feeling
that was hard to describe and told us it was the Spirit. We challenged
them to come to church and they did...they
were 40 minutes early church because they didn't want to be late. Wow
they are doing so good. They readily as well have accepted the Word of
Wisdom. They are pretty much my favorite thing that has happened this
week. We have another great family too right
now. A less active family that we've been working with. This family
is just so fun. They have been coming to church for awhile now and we
continue to visit them. We just have so many people coming back to
church right now.
It seems to me there are 4 religions we deal with in the
Philippines; Catholic, Born Again, Iglesia ni Cristo, and the Jehovah's
witnesses. I haven't dealt much so far with Igelsia or the witnesses,
but this week we ran into a lot of Witnesses.
We had an investigator get attacked by the Witnesses and was very
confused asking us a lot of questions. (Funny enough the Witnesses
attacked our church for believing that God and Jesus Christ were one
being, we reminded our investigator of Joseph Smiths
vision and showed a picture that clearly shows 2 beings talking to
Joseph.) Besides that we seemed to meet Witnesses everywhere. I got
very good at my Bible scriptures as learned how to very quickly and
effectively answer all their questions. We got pretty
good at talking to them and getting them to the point where they were
asking us questions (as opposed to questioning our message). It was an
interesting experience, they seemed to want very much to "Bible Bash".
But we avoided 'bashing'.
It rained again this week. Every day. That is just the way
things are. It will rain... you will get wet. Even if you have the
biggest umbrella, when it is raining hard with a harsh wind you get wet.
Nothing we can't handle though. Thanks again
for the stuff you sent with Sister Idos.
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Have a good week, keep your head up, and smile.
Have a good week, keep your head up, and smile.
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