Thursday, September 4, 2014

August 31, 2014


Mayung aga!

It's been an interesting week, but a good week. It's rained all week which makes proselyting really hard. It started last Monday. All day during preparation day it was fine. We wash our garments in the afternoon and I told sister maybe it'll rain so we'll hang them up inside to dry so they don't get wet. Then five minutes later, it starts to barely sprinkle. And then we leave a little before six, just barely sprinkling. We get on the tryke to take us to the highway to catch a jeep to our area, and then it starts down pouring. As in, downpouring. So then we get off the tryke half-way soaked already and run to hide under the waiting shed. The thundering is so loud, and then you can see the lightning bolts strike. It was Sister Vaitohi's first real rainstorm. But since then, it's rained the whole week. Which sometimes makes it hard to proselyte, at least to find. But we're trying. We just baptized the last of our progressing investigators, so I think the next month is going to be a little rough because we kind of need to start over with the whole finding process, but I think we'll be okay. But speaking of baptism, it was J and V's baptism this past weekend. It was so great even though it was kind of small event. It's kind of fun being with a new missionary, because I notice things that she points out that I feel like are just so common now. I've forgotten what's normal and what's different here in the Philippines. But they shared their testimonies and of course I teared up. It's always such a humbling experience being a missionary, and teaching the gospel.

Anways, it really has been an okay week. Yesterday we had our combined third hour in church, and it was on temples and family history. They had a couple of LDS videos and Mormon messages we watched, and I was crying through it. The blessings of the temple truly are worth all the trials we go through in life.

Also yesterday at church, Elder and Sister Mower came. Elder Mower told us that he went up to Brother V and said sorry that they couldn't make his baptism a couple of weeks ago, but then Brother V said "It's okay, you can just come to our sealing next year." They're seriously the best family ever. Brother V already is in Moses, he already finished the D & C and the Book of Mormon.

I love you all!
Sister Fitzgerald

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