Thursday, October 7, 2004 We usually have follow-ups with the sisters on Thursday but today we just called them on the phone to do follow-ups. It was a lot more effective use of time. We left this morning at about…
Learning comes from the spirit and I run into a wire
Monday, October 4, 2004 Well we actually implemented the new schedule today. We didn’t leave the house until 10:30 and we came back in at 9:00 tonight. We also took an hour break for lunch. It seemed like we really…
Marriage
Monday, September 27, 2004 Today has been a really long day. We had district meeting today because we have Zone Conference tomorrow. When we came back we went to visit the Arandia family. They just moved here from Bicol and…
A letdown
Saturday, September 25, 2004 Today has been a really long day. We had a lot of appointments but all or our “solid” appointments fell through. Bro W. R. who is one of our strongest investigators, was drinking when we went to…
Baptismal interviews and lots of questions
Thursday, September 23, 2004 Today has been a strange day. We had follow ups this morning over at the MIR. We also had Juris’s interview this morning. It was weird because we told her to meet us at the Pinaglabanan…
Feeling the Holy Ghost
Saturday, September 18, 2004 We had a really good discussion with Bro. Winnie Ramos this morning. We taught him a third discussion about the founding of the church in our time. He really felt the spirit and it was good.…
Bad blisters. Good work
Friday, September 17, 2004 As I’m writing this I’m sitting with my feet soaking in a tub of hot water. I have some bad blisters on my right foot and soaking feels really good. We got a lot of good…
Finding and Power Naps
Thursday, September 16, 2004 This morning we left at 8:30 to go and follow-up with the sisters. We usually do follow-ups at the MIR but it’s really far away and so we just had them at the sister’s chapel. They…
Service at the school again
Friday, September 10, 2004 Today was a really long day. This morning we went down to Elder Alongo’s area to do service. We did service at the same elementary school that we did a few weeks ago. We cleaned up…
Temple on P-Day
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 I got to go to the temple today. I’m so glad that I have a temple here in my mission. I can’t imagine what it would be like to not go to the temple for two…