We had an amazing week this week. We had a pretty good
amount of appointments this week and we are seeing a lot of good things coming
out right now.
We are happy to say that Erik came to church this week!!! He
brought his niece with him that isn't a member. She came and listened to us on
Saturday and we asked her if she wanted to be baptized. She said yes, she is 9
years old. We were so excited! We are now looking forward to 4 baptisms coming
up. Jovenal didn't make it to church this week. We went over there yesterday to
find him sick. He is still good for Sept. 28. We set his baptism late so he
could still be baptized on that day if he missed a Sunday. He is doing very
well and has a great testimony. We had a great experience with him this week.
We taught him the Word of Wisdom on Thursday. We knew that he had a cigarette
problem. We taught him about it and he told us he went to the doctors earlier that
week and they told him that he needed to stop smoking and stop drinking coffee
because it wasn't helping him. They told him that it was bad for his body. It
was great to see how the Lord helps us by sending some of our investigators to
the doctors to find out that is bad for them. They will listen to the doctors.
Some of the missionaries say if they won't give up their word of wisdom
problems you pray they will get sick so they go to the doctors so they will
stop. It isn't the best to pray for but it works for getting them to stop. We
went to Irish's parents yesterday to ask them to sign the baptismal record so
she could be baptized. The mother was hesitant at first but Irish went inside
the house grabbed a pen and told her to sign. It shocked us a little bit to see
that she had such a desire because she doesn't talk much during the lessons but
she has a great testimony about the truth. We are planning on going back to
their mother and teach her because she says that she hasn't listened to the
missionaries before. We are looking forward to seeing if we can help her join
as well. We were a little bit shocked yesterday at church. We contacted a less
active about a week ago. We were looking for a referral and we asked her where
the referral lives. She told us she was a member. To keep things short, she
came to church yesterday and she brought her grandchildren. We know 2 of them
can be baptized, one a covert the other is 8 years old. We are looking forward
to teaching them this week so they will be baptized as well. We also have been
working on Mimi Brava for a while now. She has been taught for a long time. She
is a part member. Her mother is less active. She also came to church this week.
It was cool because we haven't seen her for about 2 weeks because she went to
Manila but she got cold there because of the typhoon and came back and she came
to church. It was definitely a great day. We also had a branch fellowshipping
night. We had the members invite others to come to the church to tour it. After
they had some activities. They had 36 investigators come. We started contacted
them yesterday and one is interested. He said he wanted to come to church so we
will meet him there next week and set a schedule to teach him.
This week was very hot. We had no rain. It was very
different and we felt like dieing yesterday because it was so hot. We were
walking and would stop every so often to rest because we were drenched with
sweat. It was very hot.
We celebrate Labor day here but it is a different day but it
is different. Everyone still works. It is just like a normal day.
Well I think that is all. It was a great week.
Love you all,
Elder Nielsen
PS Merry Christmas. We are starting the Christmas season
now. It starts 100 days before Christmas day. Time to start singing the
Christmas songs!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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