Hey Mum and Whanau,
Thanks for the emails family and the pictures too Danii. Awesome! Your question mum regarding the Tatay of the Ustare family and why he wasn't baptized is because he passed away over 20 years ago, so the Nanay is excited to do the temple work for her family when the time is right. We are trying our best to reach out and teach the older sister. I think she doesn't like us very much, mainly because when she returned from Abu Dhabi she wasn't too excited to learn that her family had changed religions. But, she's slowly warming up to us, so hopefully we will have the opportunity to invite her to be baptized before I return home. That will be sweet to see the whole family complete.
Cool stories mum about the Ward Movie night and all the popcorn that the Primary made and also the bargains at the Op shops. Good on you. It's awesome that Otis and his family are moving into the Temple View house. And, mum, you've got to stop reminding me that I only have 10 weeks left. You are more trunky than I am. Hehe! Cute!
So, this week was a good week. Transfer day went well and we received some really great additions to the Zone. It's going to be a good transfer and I know the time will pass by quickly because we're all busy in the work. This morning Elder Carman and I did our planning as Zone leaders where we went through some key indicators and set new goals so that we can better focus on the mission goal of teaching priesthood. We are focusing on finding this transfer. We set a goal to do 5, "Open your mouth" (OYM's) every day, which basically means we have to talk to or contact 5 people - they are counted as contacted if we give them a Book of Mormon or pamphlet and get their name, phone number and address. We figured that by doing this we will have achieved several of our key indicator's - helping a new investigator, contacting someone, placing a Book of Mormon with someone, increasing the number of lessons we teach and having a member present during our lessons. It's going to be great and we decided that in order to move the Zone forward we as Zone leaders need to set the example for the rest of the missionaries in our Zone.
Sister Chadderton asked me to share a miracle that I've experienced this past week. A few that come to mind are that I consider it a miracle when we make it to all of our scheduled appointments and are on time too. I also consider it a miracle that on Fast Sunday I fast for 24 hours and haven't died yet! Hehe. I consider lots of things to be miracles - even the very small things - such as understanding and applying the things I learn during my personal study to my missionary work, good health and not getting sick for such a long time because since my time in Teresa I haven't really been sick at all which is almost a year now. Other miracles include having a great transfer this past week and a good Zone, having an awesome companion, having good friends, having active recent converts, having the strength to cope with the demands of missionary work, having the gift of tongues and many more. That's just a short list of the things I see as miracles. I also see miracles through you family.
Thanks for everything and thanks for being an awesome family and for your continued words of encouragement. Thanks sa lahat. Malaki talaga ung mga blessings sa buhay ko. Di ko talagang maipaliwanag kung gaano ako nagpapasalamat sa diyos. ang daming blessings ang kanyang ibinibigay sa akin at sobra akong grateful sa lahat.
Alam ko na maiksi lang and oras ko sa mission at talagang mabilis ung mission kapag na engaged ako sa gawaing eto. ito talaga ao ung gawain ng diyos at kanyang kasiyahan para makita tayo bilang masayang mga anak ng diyos. mahal na mahal niya tayo . di ko talagang kayang maipaliwanag kung kalaki ung pasalamat ko sa diyos pero sana naipapakita ko yun sa kanya sa pamamagitan ng aking mga ginagawa. mahal ko siya at alam ko na mahal niya ako. napakabilis po ng sampung linggo at before you know it nandyan na ako sa tabi ninyo. ang saya ng araw nayun. mahal ko kayo.
Ingat lage at patuloy tayo sa ating paglalakad pabalik sa diyos.
Elder Chadderton
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