Week 17: Member Missionaries Move the Work Forward

Marai na aga po (Good morning) Brothers and Sisters,
     The highlight of my last 2 weeks - Two weeks ago we have a new investigator.  Her name is Maricel.  She's 30 and she is amazing.  Throughout our prayers we pray that she will choose to attend the sacrament meeting last week and she came.  This week she didn't come to church because he granddad past away yesterday hapon (pm).  So we keep visiting her each week and she does read the Book of Mormon.  Besides that she does pray when we ask her to close us with a prayer.  She has a husband and has been married for more than 5 years but never get a child.  So we have been praying for them.

     Last Sunday, we get a new investigator.  She is 12 years old.  Her name is Mary and she is attending church for 3 times and we didn't even know.  So she give us her name yesterday morning and we visited her for a lesson.  So right now, we are so happy that we get 2 new investigators from members.  They are awesome and doing good that we hope we will get their lessons completed.

     So we only have 3 investigators right now who are progressing Nanay Garcia, S. Maricel, and S. Mary.  We have been keeping commitments for them and I am grateful for the members here.  They always help us and given us referrals.  So I just wanted to share my testimony here that missionary work is not for missionaries but for all the members as well.  If we keep on visiting members just to share some scriptures about God's promises and blessing they will get from missionary work, they will get to know the important of missionary work.  They will help each others friends and families who are not members by inviting them and introducing them to the missionaries.

Elder Bateiti

This is how it looks like in the street after the typhoon comes.  It's one of the area back road that we been walking to visit members.

This photo is tipped but the big trees was falls in the location where we often get out to work.  The palm trees are all still standing.  

One of the member lady's house - The roof was remove so we try to clean inside her house.  It fills with water and the leaves of trees.





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