The Missionary with the Power

Hello all! It's been a week of miracles here in Daya, and to top it off it was POWER WEEK! So that was exciting.

 

Basically we have power week because after Chinese New Year everyone is 10 lbs heavier and we need to add some serious oil (like fuel oil, not cooking oil) in order to get the work done! So every day this week we had different challenges that we had to accomplish. If we did so successfully we could call the mission president in the evening and say "Mission accomplished!" And we were totally able to do some of them! On Monday night we went tracting and completed the challenge of getting into two homes and sharing a gospel message with them. The first lesson was wonderful, I literally felt like we were dreaming and Daya was this magical place where people were happy to see us and would get baptized within the week. Then at 8:55 (note that we are supposed to be home at 9)(we really wanted to get into one more house) a lady let us in and let us teach her about prayer. Then she gave us candy with alcohol in it and told us she didn't want us to come back. But we accomplished the mission!

 

Tuesday was Zone Conference, which is always awesome. Always makes you feel like you can be a better missionary.

 

Thursday we got kind of lost in a farther away area but we totally met a cute girl who we are meeting with again tonight. And we were riding along minding our own business when this guy started honking at us and told us to pull over. "Are you church people?" Yes, yes we are. "I have someone you need to meet. Their son does drugs and they've tried everything to help them. I told them that now the only thing they can do is use the power of religion. Will you come over to meet them?" Heck yes we will! So we skedaddled over and met the parents an tried to tell them how the restored gospel can help their son turn his life around. They didn't really want to hear it. We left a Word of Wisdom pamphlet anyway. Then as we were leaving the man himself came up and we got his number to give to the elders! So hopefully something will come of that. Miracles happen!

 

Friday we completed the challenge of telling 20 families how the gospel can bless their lives. It involved a lot of stopping really fast and turning around when we noticed a family, or awkwardly riding right up to the scooter with two people on it in the hopes that they have some sort of family relationship. Worked sometimes.

 

Saturday we gave out 17 COPIES OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. The original challenge was to give out 13 and get the person's information. We accidentally gave a few out to people who didn't leave their number, but luckily we brought extras. Then we ran into the problem that we still needed to give out one more and we only had an English and a Tagolog copy of the Book of Mormon because we had planned to give one to a Filipino lady who wasn't at home. So we gave the English one to someone and said it could help them learn English. And another girl earlier in the day wouldn't take a copy because she said downloading the app would be more environmentally friendly. So it totally counts.

 

So overall it has been a good week. We've seen lots of miracles, the ward is really wonderful, we aren't getting lost very often even though the addresses have changed since the maps we have were made, and we have a few investigators who are willing to get baptized soon. So life is good as a missionary!

 

Love you all, hope you have a good week!

 

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