Working Hard

Well, this was a slower week but I think it is because of the warm weather. It has been extremely hot the past 3 days. I think it is close to the record. If you don't have a fan going you are sweating bad.

We still got a lot done though. Renelyn is on schedule. Her interview is on Sunday but we don't know if it will happen because of general conference. We go to Cadiz to watch it and you have to take a bus to get there. We don't know right now if the ward can get a bus but for now you have to pay to go. It is hard because lots of people don't have money to go so they stay home. Sister Babila didn't come to church this week. She has a family problem so she isn't coming to church. Brother Negad is came though. He really likes the church. We were very happy he came. Ferly has an older sister that has been in Manila for the past 10 years. She came home. We started teaching her. Her name is Len. She likes the church because it changed her dad so he started reading the Bible and telling them to go to church. She came to church. We don't know if she will baptize. It depends on her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is Inglesia ni Cristo and if they marry, she will need to be Inglesia as well. We are waiting to see what happens. It could be 2 years before she is baptized because she won't go be with him, because he is in the US, until 2 more years. That gives us a lot of time to work. Nono is really progressing. He won't commit to baptism right now because he is smoking but he is trying to stop. We are trying to get him to church right now. Everyone else is moving along. We are trying to help them but they aren't doing anything with what we teach. We just try to listen for the spirit to tell us what they need.

Right now we are working with over 30 investigators. It demands a lot of time but we do the best that we can with it.

We e-mail at a place they call an internet cafe. It is a place with a lot of computers that you pay to use. There is several in a barangay.

Our apartment is really nice. I will send pictures next time. It has tiled floors and has a shower. President says it is the only working shower in the mission. The Anderson couple says it is the nicest apartment in the mission and is for the best missionaries in the mission. Haha. I don't believe the best missionaries, more like the luckiest.

The MTC provided sheets and blankets.

I am looking forward to seeing general conference and hearing from the living prophets.

I love you all. Remember who you are. You are a child of God.

Elder Nielsen