Welp everyone,
welcome back to my life.
This week is much
like last week, but different. We did fun things and we had good lessons. I am
starting to really like this area and the people here. We have seen a lot of
progress but we are really trying to help people make it to church still.
One thing I have
learned: people have an amazingly hard time getting to church if they don’t
have support of the members. It is difficult for someone to build up the faith
to go to church if they don’t have the consistent support of another person
right by their side.
We have a couple
people in our teaching pool that haven’t made it to church because they don’t
know any members. We are trying to find a way around this problem.
Other than that, we
have been encouraged in our area: we have been gaining back the trust of the
members in this ward and been working with them. We had a really cool
experience where we helped reactivate someone who had not been to church for a
solid year. When people saw her back, they came to us and were so excited. We
have a plan to bring that less active with a couple active member families to
do scripture study, along with her grandchildren that have not been baptized
yet. Hopefully we will see that whole family make it back to church, but a lot
of her children have been out of the church for around 20 years, so we may find
it difficult to get everyone back to church.
Hopefully, as we get
more experiences like that – we will be able to get a lot more people back to
church. We are really trying to change the way we work through members. If we
always get them to bring friends to church, we never have to worry about
investigators that don’t have a support system.
Right now, we are
preparing for Christmas. We are teaching a lot, but we are also not letting up
on our finding. We want a lot of people that have potential to be baptized in
our teaching pool. Even if I leave and don’t see all of those people get
baptized, I want it to be easier on Elder Bromley to continue on.
Culture: All you eat
is bread. Filipinos have this thing where they think all Americans just eat
bread. When they ask what your favorite Filipino food is, and you don’t answer
fast enough, they will say: "Oh yeah they just eat bread in America."
Tagalesson: Explaining
an action that someone else was involved in. I realized that this is super hard
to say in English, but it is really simple in Tagalog. When you want to explain
an action you did with someone you just add "Ni" and their name.
"Nagplanning
kami ni Elder Bromley" = "We planned (me and Elder Bromley)"
There is no good way
to describe this, you just have to know this is how it works. Good luck po.
Alrighty nice work
bois.
I will see you again
next week.
#nopicturesagain.
Love
Elder Faulkner
No comments:
Post a Comment