That is like the mission. Here is what you have to understand about
missionary work, you see the worst in people. That is exactly what Ammon saw in
the Lamanites, he saw their killings and he saw their disputations and their
problems – but the most important is he loved them enough to serve them
forever. I love these people that I serve enough to serve them forever if need
be. The love that a missionary experiences for the people is unexplainable but
the devastation that he feels when people choose not to improve their position
in life is the same way.
It is like your family. You see them do good things, you see them
do bad things, and you love them. The important thing is to never let the bad
things inhibit the love.
The thing almost none of you will ever understand is the love and
the pain of a Filipino. They are the fastest friends in the hardest of times.
They are the people that smile the most when they feel like nothing is going
right. They have some of the most hard-up circumstances – but they always have
a joke. I have learned more about hardships and how people deal with those
hardships here than in the rest of my life combined.
In the Culture of the Philippines, people have learned to share and
give even when they have nothing. It is a culture that has been affected by so
many things and it is a tragedy how many hardships the people here have. In the
end they deal with them well and they are great people.
We had a baptism
The zone is still kind of falling apart.
Charity is probably the most important thing.
We have a big thing going with a closed area that has a lot of
people going to church we may go over there and teach the people over there a
couple times and then baptize them. I will keep you updated on that. There are
10 of them.
I got some pictures.
I love you all I hope you are holding up without me, you only have
like a year left....
Welp anyways good luck
Love
Elder Faulkner
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