Area: San Marcelino
Companion: Sister Hynes
Monday,
September 30, 2013
Hello my beautiful friends and family!!!
Another crazy week here in the P.I.! This week has been
wonderful to say the least.We have an investigator Michael Sevillaga (whose
brother just got baptized two weeks ago), and Michael has been extremely active
coming to church each week, has been keeping all of his commitments, and had a
baptismal goal date for October 19. However, he has a crush on my companion
Sister Hynes so it has been hard to get him to distinguish whether he has a
testimony or if he is just doing this for her. BUT, we were able to really get
a chance to sit down and talk with him when we had exchanges this week. I went
on exchanges with the beautiful Sister Rossberg. We went and visited Michael
and he opened up to us more than he ever has before. I challenged him to be
baptized on Saturday, September 28. I bore my testimony about how I pray for
him every night and I just know that he is ready to be baptized. I asked him
about his testimony and he told me that he knows everything about our church is
true. He told me that he was ready, and that the hairs on his arms were
standing up because he felt the spirit so strongly. It is impossible to put the
moment and the feelings into words. We have been working with him for months,
and all it took was for one little lesson where we really just made him think
about what he wanted, and it helped him to realize that he wanted to be
baptized. We came back and taught him everyday leading up to the day of his
baptism. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful. We had four baptisms total on
Saturday, and the spirit was absolutely raging. Two convert fathers baptized
their two sons, and then the other two little ones were baptized by a branch
missionary. Everyone was so happy and full of the Spirit it was amazing.
Afterwards we had a branch home evening to celebrate and to welcome the recent
converts into the branch. It was a very happy time :)
Oh so apparently I have a Filipino twin here. I kid you not
EVERYWHERE I go people tell me, "wow, you look like ching rodriguez".
I didn't know what to think because I don't even know what she looks like, but
I found a picture of her the other day so I will send that later! Nothing else
extremely exciting happened this week, the weather has dried up a ton and it is
absolutely beautiful out now. Luckily none of our investigators or members in
our branch had too much damage to their homes so we are very grateful for that!
We achieved our zone goals for the months for baptisms and less
actives returned which is super exciting, first time for me! We get to go to
the mission home later today for games and dinner and of course family home
evening so I am looking forward to that!
Sorry this letter is a shorter one, but I really do love it
here, it reminds me so much of Hawaii! I miss you all tons and am constantly
praying for your success, health, and safety. I love this gospel and I LOVE my
mission!
Have a great week.
Mahal Kita:)
Sister Pilkington
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