Congratulations Heather!!! I am so excited to meet beautiful Eliza! :D I now have 5 new family members who I haven't met yet! I can't believe how fast time flies and how fast our family is growing! Dallin is already 1 year old!? And Everett! And Emma! haha. I am excited to meet them all! And of course my new sister in law, Jennifer. :D Am I missing any? :D
This week was good. What happened? Today was the first day of school. It's always fun seeing all the kids in their cute school uniforms all over the place. Sometimes it's unusual for me to see these tiny little kids getting on a big jeepney all by themselves to go to school. It's nothing like a school bus, haha.
Yesterday in fast and testimony meeting, there was an adorable little girl who got up... maybe she was 10 years old? She said she wanted to share her testimony about the sabbath day and then opened up the bible and started reading from the first verse. Every few verses she would stop and translate the english into Hiligaynon. She got to maybe the 4th day of the creation before the branch president asked her to just share her testimony... because she was taking a long time. :( It was kind of sad... but she was so cute!
We found a really big family with 10 kids the other day! The mother's name is Rebecca... easy for me to remember :D she had seen us pass by every day and hoped that some day we would stop by and talk to her, but we never did because we were always on the way to an appointment... :( I learned a lesson from that... but anyways, we taught some of her kids at another home the other day and asked if we could go back to them another day to meet their parents. They said sure, so we were finally able to meet them. We are super excited for them! We taught the first lesson, and when we extended the baptismal invitation, found out they were hoping that we could just have "bible study." They have no intention of being baptized...even if they feel that our message is true... they were just hoping we could entertain their kids every once in a while... but we are still excited to teach them and believe one of these days... if they really pray sincerely like they said they would, they will feel the truth and change their minds about baptism. Sometimes it's a little discouraging when they say no, but if we don't give the invitation, we're not fulfilling our purpose as missionaries. Now they at least know that we're not there for bible study and maybe they'll listen more attentively in the next few lessons. :D They are really a great family. :D Her son-in-law is a jeepney driver and he drove us home that night... and wouldn't accept payment. They are super nice. We have so many other new investigators as well... that's never been a really big challenge for me... getting new investigators... getting investigators to progress is the challenge for me... :( When they ALL commit to coming to church... and then NO ONE shows up??? It's a little sad... but hey, they do have their agency.
Let's see, what else?
Yeah, that's about it for now :D
I really am enjoying this work. This area is different than my others. All our investigators live far apart so we're doing a lot of walking every day... and it takes half an hour to even get to and home from our area sometimes, so we don't have as much proselyting time as I'm used to either. But it is a beautiful area with beautiful people and I'm excited to help this area to progress. It's hard work, but it's worth it. There's nothing more enjoyable than seeing someone's life changing because of the gospel, and we are seeing that in some of our investigators. It's a wonderful feeling. :D
Thanks everyone!
Halong
Sister McClellan
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