Wednesday, December 15, 2004 We had a really relaxing P-day today. We actually tried to make chocolate chip cookies this morning. They worked out ok except for the fact that we had no real chocolate chips and had to use…
Vilorias get married!
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Vilorias got married at 9:30 this morning. This was amazing because we’re in the Philippines and things just don’t work our right like that very much. Anyhow, they were really happy and finally that obstacle has…
Our investigators struggle
Monday, December 13, 2004 This was a strange Monday. We went into San Jose today for district meeting because tomorrow the Zone Leaders have to go and represent the church in court on Tuesday so they wouldn’t have been able…
Miracles at church and way too much food
Sunday, December 12, 2004 I asked Elder Cox this morning if we were going to have to do anything big at church today. He told me, and I also was sure, that we weren’t responsible for anything huge. Well, when…
We have awesome investigators
Saturday, December 11, 2004 We had an interesting and fairly stressful day today. Our main worry was the Viloria family because we were afraid that they would get discouraged and that Brother would slip back into his drinking. We cooked…
Working in the fields
Friday, December 10, 2004 We had exchanges today and I worked all afternoon with Elder Boucher. It was okay I guess. This morning we went and worked in Bro Gregorio’s bukid. We were working on stacking up the mud on…
The 40 day fast
Thursday, December 9, 2004 I just finished fasting as part of the 40 day mission fast. we are each, as a companionship, fasting for a day on a scheduled day, with the purpose of getting our number of baptisms back…
Fun in the mountain
Monday, December 6, 2004 Today was an interesting day. We spent the morning, after our planning session, working on the Viloria wedding. We had to go to the municipal several times and also go out to Dagupan to talk to…
Bringing people to church
Sunday, December 5, 2004 We left this morning at 7:00 in order to pick up Bro. Aldana. We got really lucky and a jeep came right away and we got there really quickly. We had told him we would come…
Trying not to debate the minister
Saturday, December 4, 2004 Well we met our friend from yesterday and, well, he’s the Minister at the Inglecia ni Cristo here in Dagupan. His name is Denis Rayes. We went back to a follow-up with Bro Santiago and we…