Monday, June 11, 2012
hello everyone wow another week down just a few more and its a year ha
image that....
hopefully things are going good there things are going good here. i
have an announcement to make. all the muscle i gained and worked for
is officially gone and im just skinny skinny again! i huess with
sweating all the time and getting sick go figure. but im happy dealing
with a million problems so thats something ha. who woulda thought that
a person thats got a million problems and none of them belong to him
could still be happy. its crazy how it works. ive just got a couple
experiences to share with you all...
one happened yesterday actually and it was after church. we had a
coorelation meeting and man its one of those things where you think
after why am i trying to have coorelation meeting that was kinda a
waste of time because nothing really happened... one of those
meetings. its a hard thing to coordinate when people dont have phones
or dont attend meetings. but anyways so what happened was after the
meeting we went home and i was feeling pretty bummed cause we had
thought out a whole lot of things we needed help with the ward with
and nothing really ended up happened everyone is too busy and while we
were at the house i just kept wondering what are we doing wrong for
the ward to get active in the work... and when i kept thinking ill be
honest i felt pretty down about myself like we were doing something
wrong cause im no expert on meetings the only thing i know about them
is whats in preach my gospel ha. but anyways it was just one of those
times you needed to just have a good prayer. mataimtim na panalangin..
and so thats what happened. i really prayed. and its not always when
you pray that you almost feel someone listening but this was one of
those times that it was just a different feeling talaga. then at our
first appointment we get there this guy named henry pelo hes inactive
and he said he was going to come to church this week but when we went
to go pick him up he wasnt there and his family said he was too sick
to come. anyways a little background on him hes huge 6 foot 3 and
thats rediculously big for a philipino ... and he has a lot of health
problems. anyways so were at his house and it starts to rain and
always they have tin or metal roofs so when its rainy you can barely
hear each other talking .. and so we had this lesson planned but we
strayed away from it just a little bit and then it just turned into
one of those lessons just completely guided by the spirit. to make
something clear my companion is 22 years old and hes a really good
teacher and ive been so impressed with how well hes been able to learn
how to follow the spirit with his short few weeks here, anyways in the
lesson man everything he said was the things i was thinking and it
flowed good and then at the end of the lesson after he had prayed out
of nowhere his concern just came out and he said some of the reasons
that he hadnt been comeing to church and we were abe to encourage him
and commit him to coming to church next week. pretty dang cool
experience, it just comes back down to the whole obedience brings
blessings. that the whole gospel in a nutshell to mee thats all we are
really teaching to people. if you become obedient to the commandments
of god and follow his plan then he will bless you now in life and
forever in the life to come. its stinking hard to do but when you
think about it its all pretty simple. if theres anything ive learned
here its ... that its not always easy to do whats right. doesnt make
you cool or get you very many friends. even mission rules by
following them you sometimes seem to be losing the love of the members
because your not as cool as the missionaries before cause they used to
do this and that at it wasnt a problem. nephi had a pretty hard lot
with his brothers and they triend to kill him for him just trying to
do whats right. im no nephi and i hope to someday come even 1/2 of who
he was but ive learned is if you are willing to do whats right evern
if your not very cool for it then you at least have the promise that
you will have the spitit in your work and then miracles happen.\\
random though before i forget here in cabagan its just like in the
times of joseph smith. "great religious excitement" along the highway
on a strip of land about as long as the hills house down a little bit
past the rollmans... all these riligions have a church, iglesia ni
cristo ( a.k.a. the church of satan) catholics, jehovas witness, born
again christian , methodistand then mormons. and then not to far away
theres protestant meeting house, theres a baptist compound, and other
little born again christian groups. i get why joseph was confused. im
glad to know the truth and sad to know others are to blind to even
really pray about it. im glad to have the opportunity and had the
pppurtunity to see people accept it and change their lifes and see
their countanence change cause its true what they say about "light". i
never saw it before here but now i can and its something else
talaga.... anyways just want you all to know im happy to be out here
and i love you all hope you are all happy and hope you know im
greatful for your love and support. mahal ko kayo. elder landeen
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