Sunday, April 17, 2005 Church today was good but we still didn’t have any investigators come besides Albert. We met the new senior couple that is assigned here, Elder and Sister Abraham. They are Filipino and very nice. We had…
Rose family comes to church
Sunday, March 20, 2005 Wow, I have been really busy these last few days and haven’t found time to write. We had companionship exchanges on Friday and so I got to work with Elder Miller for a day. Even though…
Peace Through Being Forgiven
Sunday, February 20, 2005 Because today was Sunday, we obviously had church. Bro Andales decided not to come but to go to the mountain instead. Pres Isla and Elgie Tardio dropped by their home before church, however, and Bro Andales…
Helping build a church . . . it’s not what you think
Friday, February 11, 2005 Today has been an interesting and very long day. I’ll just touch lightly on what was interesting. First of all this morning we went to help the Zepata family, all of whom are Seventh-day Adventists, build…
“You don’t have a salary!?”
Sunday, February 6, 2005 We had a good turnout at church today. Not all of the Andales family came but we visited them tonight, taught them about the Plan of Salvation, and committed them to come to church next week.…
“I guess this was a pretty dry journal entry”
Sunday, January 23, 2005 Church went well today. Because it’s the fourth Sunday today, I taught the lesson in priesthood from Teachings for our Time. I chose to teach about what the purposes of a quorum are. As a text…
Ups and Downs
Sunday, January 9, 2005 I hate emotions. Today I had some time when I was feeling really confident and then just a little alter I would be feeling discouraged and not at all confident about the work. Church, for example,…
The Church is essential
Saturday, January 8, 2005 People are so difficult. I don’t understand how people can think that they can worship God but that he doesn’t have his church here on the earth. We had a long discussion today with the R.…
Teaching in church
Sunday, December 26, 2004 We only had two investigators, out of the four that we were hoping for, come to church: Bro Sergio Aldana and Bro Selso Lopez. Our meetings were good. In priesthood I taught about testimony and sharing…
Vilorias are confirmed
Sunday, December 19, 2004 Church was really good today. The Spirit was strong and all the teachers were there and were prepared. Bro Pulido taught in priesthood about being happy in life and not focusing on the bad things that…