Hello Po Francis Family,
Everything
is going great. I had a fantastic week this last week and I had some
interesting things happen to me when we were working. Some things
that I really liked this week - we taught this less active tatay name
Tatay P. Mamasig and we focused our lesson on family and temple
sealing and really explained to him how family is the center of the
gospel and how families can be together forever. We shared Helaman
10:7 with him and talked about being sealed together as a family and and we really opened him up and he started to cry and he
testified to us about how important the gospel is in his life and he is
glad that he became a member of the true church. We will keep working on
him to build up his testimony and try to get him active again.
So
that was a cool experience that happened this week. Also on Thursday
me and Elder Gabuyo went on splits with two of the members and I worked
in Lataag, one of our far areas and while I was out there I was getting
rejected and yelled at by Iglesia Ni Cristo members. I had some
people say some mean things to me but I stood strong and my
testimony of the gospel is getting stronger every day. I told them I know that our message was true and I would not sacrifice two years of my life
if I did not know it was true. Some of them listened to what I had to
say and that's when I gave my testimony about the gospel and how it brings
joy and happiness to our lives, centering it on Christ and his
Atonement. I had some of them really thinking and interested in our
message, so that was a cool experience that I had and the spirit really
took over and guided me and told me to stand strong and to not give up.
I
read a good talk from last general conference by President Monson. I really liked when he talked about Choices and he had
two quotes that really stuck out to me and this is one of them. "The
choices we make determine our destiny." I really liked this quote
because it makes me think the choices we make here on earth will require
what will happen to us after our life and for me as a missionary the
choices that I make here on my mission will determine what will happen
after my mission. So we always need to make the right choices and use freedom to choose the right way and we will see the blessings that
Heavenly Father has for us. The second quote was "May we ever
choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong." I really took this
to myself also and even some of the harder things that are in store for
us or the hard things that Heavenly Father has in store for us are usually the rights things for us and the simple easy stuff is usually wrong and can lead us into doing things that we should not be doing.
Here on earth we have two paths we can take the right path which will
lead us to happiness and peace in this life or the wrong path can lead
us to strange paths and into the darkness of the world.
Something else I really liked in his talk is when he talked about Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland. He really had a good point I liked and he said that when
Alice came to a crossroad with two paths before her and each stretching
onward but opposite directions. Then she is confronted by the cat and
Alice says to the cat "Which path should I take". The cat answers back
to her "That depends where you want to go. If you do not know where you
want to go, it doesn't matter what path you take." So I really like
what it said and then President Monson said unlike Alice we know where
we want to go, and it doesn't matter which way we go, for the path we
follow in this life leads to our destination in the next life." I would
like to focus on this principle here. We as members know which path we
are on and which one we need to take back to our Heavenly Father, but we
have obstacles that can lead us away or distract us from our
destination. When we have strong faith in Christ and put our trust in him
we will be guided in this life and on the right path to our Heavenly
Father.
So that was some of the spiritual things that happened to me this week
and I feel like even though I am closer going home I am enduring to the
end, and it is still hard and really hot but it is absolutely worth it
and I will never regret making this choice of serving a full time
mission. I miss you all so much and love you all so much too and hope
you have a great summer. I hope you are all safe. I am praying for you
always and can't wait to see you in 10 weeks. Mahal na Mahal ko kayo at
ingat po kayo palagi at Patuloy kayo manalangin sa diyos para sa tulong
nya sa inyong mga pagsubok at tukso at patuloy lang kayo magbasa sa book
of mormon malamanan ninyo ang mga salita ng diyos at anong dapat
ninyong gawin na makabalik sa piling ng ating ama sa langit, at patuloy
lang kayo magsimba para sa kapayapaan at kaligayhan sa buhay po ninyo.
Mahal ko kayo
Elder Francis
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