This was.....well there isn't really a word for it (subject line of Miracle Sunday). It completely threw us for a loop and blew our minds that is for sure. So first of all we worked really hard this week again, and are getting closer and closer to our baptisms with Daisy and Inggo. Their interview is next Saturday! We are getting really excited for them. Inggo is a trooper!!! He is having all these like stomach acid issues and not feeling very well from not smoking or drinking coffee, but in the midst of all of that he still has not taken one sip or puff. The guy is awesome. He is doing amazing, and we are trying to prepare them for the interview next week!
So this Sunday was the DapDap Branch First
Anniversary. And it was also Branch Conference so we had like all the
Stake Leaders there, and there was no better day for God to work his miracles in
DapDap. So normally our attendance is like 36...this time is was
72. Many of which were obviously from the stake, but the miraculous part
was that 1/4 of the attendance was investigators......that's right. We
had 18 investigators at church...It still tickles me pink. One of which
is a family of 8. Here is their story.
On Friday we only had two hours
in the afternoon to work before going to the sisters area to do a baptism
interview for them, and we had one lesson go through and the others all bunked,
so we thought about just going back to the house and getting ready to go.
However, we decided to try one sister who we taught like three weeks ago, and
her whole family was there. They are the Dela Cruz-Castro family.
Their oldest kid is 24 and the youngest is 9, so they have 6 kids. They
are just a cute family of 8. None of them are educated because they can't
afford to send their kids to school. They are so poor and humble and so
prepared. They accepted our baptism invite, and we went to church with
them on Sunday. So awesome. They know absolutely nothing about
Jesus Christ so we are starting from square one, which is okay because they have
no objections haha.
We also found another new family of six. Beautiful
adorable sweet close family named the Manipon family. They reluctantly
let us in the first time but loved our message about how the restoration can
help their family, and then surprisingly they came to church on their own.
They are thinking about baptism also.
What is awesome though is our branch is terrible at fellowshipping
but all the stake leaders that were there gave up their seats inside for all
our investigators and went and stood outside so the investigators could have a
good experience, and then the stake speakers including the president spoke
directly and personally to the investigators. It truly was an absolute
miracle, and we realized God had blessed us for our work and also brought these
people on this specific week for a reason. It was so awesome.
Sandra also brought her kids, and Daisy came and Caila came, and it was like
ecstasy haha. I was smiling like a fool the whole time i was playing the
piano in sacrament meeting. Beautiful ain't it? How much power God has...in tagalog we
call that "Pinakanapamakapangyarihan."
Well enjoying life and loving missionary work, but still wanting
to go home...to India...but not until next transfer because we are going to
have like 10 baptisms this transfer...that will be so awesome.
Elder Ball
PS: God Lives. And Loves His Children. Elder Van Tassell and I are proof...
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