The Dunca family is kind of weird situation right now. Kyla is
coming to church every week still which is good, but we still can't get her to
pray. Carlota is shy about praying and reading also, and we don't
think they are reading ever. Plus, Carlota still didn't come to
church. But we still have her dated for September 5, so she needs to come
the next four weeks for that to happen. Another investigator named Shane Rey is about 12 and he was
dated for Aug 29, and since he is under 14 he has to come 8 times in a
row. Well he missed yesterday. So now we have to move him back to the
first of October, so that was kind of frustrating.
However, we did see some great progress from a family called
the Dela Cruz family. We have been teaching them for a few weeks now, and
the main people we teach in the family are the dad named Ingo, and the 18 year
old daughter named Daisy. Daisy is really shy and they both seem a little
robotic, but they always read the assignments we give them and this week they
both came to church and also committed to being baptized on August 29.
The only obstacle we will have with them is getting Ingo to quit smoking.
So this week we plan on teaching the word of wisdom lesson and
committing him to quit. But other than that they are doing quite well.
We also got a sister named Sandra to come to church and that
was great. She never really took us seriously in lessons, but this week
she came to church which was awesome. We found some new investigators this week including friends
of the Dunca family named the Rosal family. They are not too
interested yet, but hopefully the gospel softens their hearts and we can
continue to teach them.
So the Philippines is quite the experience. Last
monday we ate a members home and ate squid and duck and frog and chicken, and
all of it was really good actually so that was cool. Also it has been
pretty hot lately, and the last couple of evenings it has rained buckets on
us. But i guess we are entering the main part of rainy season now.
Also because people are so crazy about basketball here, everyone wears
basketball jerseys, mostly custom made. And we can get them custom made
for like 6 bucks so i put in an order today of like 10 jerseys...oops haha. but
it will cheaper to get all of them here than to get one in the US.
Tyler is shaved now huh?? bet that was an adventure...
And yes it is so true...(you can take the missionary out of India but...)you can't take India out of the
missionary. My comp still laughs at me for how bad my english is haha.
and every food here is so dang bland...i always have to ask for spicy
stuff, and i even ate a spoonful of this chilli stuff at a place and it didn't
even phase me. Yes, Elder Bunga and Thompson are now together in
Rajahmundry 1st branch, so that is cool. Basil is in Hyderabad.
You had b-dubs!!! Lucky!!! yum! (Buffalo Wild Wings) Yeah i might be able to eat
blazin now. But they do have a curry flavor there but it is Thai curry,
but a great idea mom!:) Tagalog is coming along...sort of...i said a few tagalog
prayers this week for investigators hoping that if they see i can learn how to
pray in tagalog, it will help them to have faith that they can pray
in front of us. I am learning line upon line you could say:)
So i sent some pics this week!
Scripture: check out 2 Nephi 28:21-end of chapter. So
true. I especially see that more here now in the philippines with so many
christians who most of them believe all you need to do is believe in jesus and
you're good. Satan is lulling them into a complacent state and eventually
could carefully lead them down to hell...as extreme as it is, it is true.
Satan is good at what he does. an absolute pro. Anyways, God is more powerful anyways so we have no need to
worry.
Love you! Have a great week!
Love, Elder Ball
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