Hey yall how ya doin? haha I don't here that at all here in the Philippines.
I
am glad to hear some good report, and feedback on my last e-mail about
the kids in Guinayangan that have been doing so good, and they are so
great its awesome! But we do have some sad news for you all today, but
hopefully this will help us understand more the importance of the
timing/will of the Lord.
None
of these kids were able to make it to church yesterday... yeah is was
pretty sad, I was so excited to see them all. It turns out that our
member living in that area provided for all their travel fare last week
so they can go to church, and just can not continue paying for these kids
to go to church each week, because he himself is really struggling,
also he moved to a different place that isn't to far away, but far
enough to the point you can't walk to get to his house from where he
moved from. So now there main point of support is gone, so It causes a
big obstacle in our work with these kids.
Last
Saturday we tried to visit all their families and teach them with their
parents, and some of them were busy, or some of them were gone, but
the ones we did taught were pretty receptive, and I was feeling the
spirit while we were teaching them, and hopefully these feeling of the
spirit is going to cause them to feel something that is going to help
them gain the desire to strengthen this feeling which they feel from
God. They are such humble people, and despite all they have to suffer
and go through, they just want happy families, and because of the
culture its quite difficult for them to accomplish them. This isn't
really about baptizing anymore, its becoming more service, trying to
really help bring these kids, and families together, planting these
seeds of faith in love, that will hopefully last a life time. I am not
going to give up on them, and we will continue to visit them and teach
them. Also, one of the spiritually strongest of them all text us
yesterday and told us that even though they can't make it to church,
and bro. Aggiri moved they are still going to keep saying there prayers,
ready and studying the scriptures together. I am just so grateful for
the opportunity to work and know such great humble people.
Today
we had the Best Zone P-day ever! The best in my entire mission. We
traveled to a far area, and we hiked for about an hour to some falls,
and then me and some other missionaries, rock climbed the falls to the
top, and kept hiking the mountain it was so cool! and the rock climb got
pretty scetch a a few points, and we probably shouldn't have attempted
it in risk of physical injury, but we only came out with cuts and
bruises so its all good. Our Zone has such great Unity I just love being
with our Zone. We also have a zone conference coming up on March 18th,
can you believe that it is all ready march!? I can't its still blowing
my mind every single day.
Well
I am going to leave it at that today, to attend to some other e-mails,
and I hope you all know that I love you, and i am excited to see you all
again, only almost 3 short months, and bam! Elder Kikel is back! Love
you all!
--
Elder Kikel
-on the Lord's errand-
San Pablo Philippines Mission
Lewis,
ReplyDeleteI knew it, I knew that you were a super hero "Peter Parker" (AKA Spiderman)! No wonder that all the girls are following you around like a super hero now we know. That sounds like a really fun P day. You need that every once in a while.
With the kids not making it to church they might need a little push. We use to get up early before church and go get the kids even dress them and put their shoes on for them :) Keep focused and listen to the spirit.
Your bro
Tony