General Conference Week in the Philippines

General Conference was amazing!!! I didn't get to see the last half of the last session because bishop got up and said that we were going to hold a meeting. It was a little disappointing but I will download it and watch today. :) I liked Elder Cooks talk and President Uchtdorf's in priesthood. They were probably my favorite talking about our choices and how we need to be responsible and go toward our goals. It was all in English. I did like how some spoke in their own language which was cool. It was a little sad that our investigators didn't come because lots where busy with their rice fields getting them planted.

We got to work a lot this week!!! It was great. Baliguat is good for the 25th. Brother is way excited. I am excited for them. We didn't go to Gaston. We think they don't really want to listen so we are setting them aside. We got some new investigators that will be really good. They want to listen to our message so it is good. One is the Saad family. They have a son that is a member. We are working with them to come to church and be baptized. We taught the Sabico family. We had a great lesson on Sunday with them and brother commited to come to church himself. We are happy that he wants to help his family to make it eternal. The others are just coming along. We are working hard to get them to read and pray.

We have been getting a lot of rain. This week was full of it because of Typhoon Opong that went through this week. It was hard to work in some areas this week because it was to muddy and the rivers were overflowing so we had to figure out what else we could do instead. We visited a lot of members to get some referrals. That worked pretty well. We have referrals coming in so we are doing pretty good.

Zone Conference is on October 21 so we will be good for a week. We will get as much as we need to work.

Sorry, a little bit boring of a week. Next week might be more exciting.

Love you,

Elder Nielsen

PS: I would like to order 2 jackets, 1 coat, 2 pairs of gloves, a face mask, beeny, earmuffs, hand and feet warmers and a scarf when I get home. I would like that in the airport so I don't die. Thanks. I am serious about this.

At the Manila Temple last week