All righty my friends lots to talk about so lets get into it!
I will talk in order of the Topics!
So
first I mentioned a little bit about Desires in my last e-mail. I want
to talk about it a little bit more this time because this last week we
had the opportunity to have a personal interview with President Mangum,
and man he just blows me away every time. In preparation for my
interview I made myself a "Mission Vision" basically stating what I
desire to accomplish, be, and do for the rest of my mission, I was very
carefully in deciding what I need to work on, to do, and to be! Also
included in this vision of course is setting goals for myself to achieve
this vision that I have for myself. President Mangum was pretty happy
that I did this and he talked to me a lot about our desires in life.
Basically
put, Our desires come from our hearts, our wishes and wants in life
come from our heads. If we truly desire something then it means we are
going to put all of our heart, might, mind, and strength into it until
we achieve it! Wishing or wanting just causes us to become lazy,
frustrated, and even sometimes depressed. Our Desires is what drives us
to act, to rise, and to work! It is what changes our natures, and not
just our behaviors.
Some of examples that I have seen of
this desire will have to be of a young man in my ward right now who is
preparing to leave to serve in the Philippines, Bacolod mission on Feb
27. His name is Arman Venus. He is 21 and has a family of 13! half his
family is less active, his Mom is unable to support herself or move due
to her 10 strokes she has had! His Father works all day everyday to be
able to support the family, and also pay those hospital bills, and all
of them live in a bamboo build house on stilts about the size of our
living room when you walk in my house in Herriman. Talk about desire...
this man is willing to leave His family in that kind of situation to
serve the Lord, He even quite his job so he can work with us! and even
through a Typhoon he still came to church drenched from head to toe
because he had no money for a tricycle so he walked. Now if this isn't a
testimony builder then I don't know what is, especially for me because I
know him personally, I know his family, their trials, and their
sorrows. That my friends is coming from his heart, to serve the Lord.
Not just because somebody wants him to do it or it is expected because he
is converted. So I invite everyone to obtain this kind of desire in
their live to serve the Lord, in one way or another, and come closer to
him by studying about Him in the Scriptures.
Phew! 1 topic down... 2 more to go!
The
Typhoon! I don't know if any of you heard but there was another Typhoon
where we were at! It came out of No where! out of the five signals it
was a signal 2 almost signal 3! Typhoon Ruby was a signal 3 for us, but
this storm was way stronger then Ruby! Sunday morning it started raining
like crazy, and the wind start blowing like a beast! But as good
missionaries do, we still went to church. Honestly, I hardly expected
any members at the church. We were the second there, with the second
councilor or the bishopric being the first, then watching the bishop and
his family approach the church soaked from head to toe in shorts and
t-shirts, with bag of clothes to change into. There was bout 12 of us in
attendance that day but it was great to see the faithfulness and
desires of these members to follow the lords commandments and receive
the promise blessings. After Church, there were no tricycles outside
because outside was having a little war! So Elder Garcia and I volunteered to walk out in the rain and try and find some transportation
for the members to get home after waiting for a few hours. Yeah we were
also soaked from head to toe with floods up to our shins! it was fun
and exciting, until we got home to a flooded apartment! ahhh! With no
power! So not much work got done that day haha but everything turn out
all right and spent a little over 6 hours this morning cleaning our
apartment so its all in the past now! haha
As most of you
saw on the news the Pope to come to the Philippines, and nothing really
crazy happened here in Calauag but I heard of some crazy things going
on. He was in Manila which is pretty dang far away from us but still we weren't able to use or phones at certain as the pope was traveling,
people talking about him, people watching him on tv, and all sorts of
stuff, but nothing out of the normal happened while we were working. One
funny thing was that I was talking to a member and he was talking about
the Pope and I got him a little mixed up and I thought he said the Pope
of was here in Calauag at the Catholic church, and I asked him like 5
times if it was true, and we went to the Catholic Church to go meet the
Pope of the entire world, and guess what, there was NOBODY there haha. I
misunderstood him haha...
okay my friends I will leave
you on a good note with some laughter. This last week Elder Garcia and I
were eating at a kiosk that we usually it at, and one day we went
there, there was a lot of college girls eating that just got out of
school. The all started giggling, waving, and trying to talk to me in
english. It was the end of the day, I was tired, and thought I would
have some fun haha. So I will admit I was bit flirtatious in words and
action haha but the Lord thought that was a "No,No" because eventually
we had to leave to go home, and as I was walking away, I fell right
through a wooden plank that was covering a sewer drain!!! and my right
leg fell into who knows what... and then proceeding the laughter of all
the college girls... Lesson learned. haha so now when we have been
walking down the streets lately I will have random people laugh at me
and tell me I was the one the fell in the sewer.. oh well, we used it to
get oyms!
So there you have it folks, I hope your week
was as good as mine and I hope you are all staying beautiful! Shiny
faces, and bright smiles! Till next time...
.
--
Elder Kikel
-on the Lord's errand-
San Pablo Philippines Mission
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