Thursday, January 20, 2005 Well even after the good lesson yesterday he still didn’t have the strength to say no to an invitation to drink. We dropped by their house tonight as always and sister went to go get him…
8-month P-Day
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Today is officially my 8 month mark in the mission. Eight months seems like a long time but it has gone by really fast and I can hardly believe that a third of my mission is…
Planning with Pres. Isla
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 We had a really busy and crazy day today. This morning we went in to San Jose for district meeting. Elder Baylon taught an attributes lesson about virtue and a skills lesson about working with members.…
“I just sat there and felt like crying”
Monday, January 17, 2005 Today was a good day except for tonight. This morning after our planning session we visited the Zapata family out in Niyayos to do a first lesson follow-up. Brother told us that he’d only been able…
Meeting the other church leaders in Calintaan
Sunday, January 16, 2005 Today was an interesting day. First of all church. We only had 31 people attend because of lack of pera[1] and other various and sundry reasons. We did have three investigators there: Bro Aldana, Bro Andales,…
Learning about National Bible Week
Saturday, January 15, 2005 Today was a really long day and I’m not exactly sure what we accomplished. This morning we went out to Niyaos to do work. We looked for some past investigators and found one of them. He…
Talok in the Bukid
Friday, January 14, 2005 We did service with Bro Andales today out in his bukid. We helped him talok. Talok is planting rice. They take individual plants that are already pretty big and they pull them out where they were…
Understanding Apostasy
Thursday, January 13, 2005 Today was a really strange day. I don’t think we taught a single normal lesson the whole day. Also we didn’t have a single appointment actually go through at the time that we wanted it to.…
Letters and the truthfulness of the Bible
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Today was a good day. We didn’t have any places to go and so we just sat at the apartment and studied/vegetated. I also got to write a couple of letters, one to my trainer Elder…
Losing an email
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 We had district meeting today in San Jose. We got kind of a late start coming out of Calintaan and didn’t get to the church until 8:45. We were still the first ones there though. I…