Shaving+Thinking="Loathing" from Wicked? (11/30/12)

Dear Family and Friends,

This week has been great! I have really felt the truth of the advise that President Hinckley's Father gave him, "Forget yourself and go to work". That is a great remedy for homesickness and lonelyness. And has it been easy to forget myself in the work. Elder O and I are both new to the area that we are serving in so we have had to work hard to get to know the area and the members in Bacarra. It is such a pretty area too. Lots of fields and in parts it's almost a jungle. We get some places using tricycles and jeepneys but mostly we walk which I think is awesome.

We have found a bunch of new investigators this week. We contacted two previous investigators. One, L, has been taking the lessons for a while and is married to a member. We went and taught them about the Restoration and invited her to be baptized on January 5. She accepted and on Sunday we talked to her husband. He holds the priesthood and wants to be worthy  and prepared to be the one to prefrom the baptism. We also contacted M, a nine year old in a part member family, who had a baptism date but it never happened. We reset her baptism for January 5 also. There was the Bac-Bacarra festival this week so it was a bit difficult to contact people on some days, but that did not hinder the work.

Finally, I want to share an experience of a referal that we recieved. We were teaching a member in Pasiocan, a very rural area and at the end we asked her for referrals. She thought for a bit then went inside to get a list of people in a club she was in. She came out and said she had thought of one, her daughter-in-law, who is not a member. We pullled out our planners to write down the information but she went inside. We were a bit confused until she came out with her daughter-in-law about twenty seconds later. We taught her the first lesson through Joseph Smith, invited her to pray to know if Joseph was a prophet and gave her a Book of Mormon. Referal recieved and contacted in about thirty seconds (fist pump!).

Thank you for all of your prayers and faith. You have all set such great examples for me and helped me a lot in preparing to serve the Lord. God be with you all till we meet again. Mahal Kita!

Sincerely,

ElderRWood