Hey all you wonderful people out there!
Just want to start off this email by wishing my beloved Grandpa Davis a speedy and full recovery! I am and have been praying for you since your sergery! Get well soon grandpa! I can't wait to see you all again!
So yeah this week for Pday we went to a really fancy shmancy part of town where all of the rich people live.. called Nuvali. It has a Krispy Kreme and YellowCab pizza and all kinds of really nice expensive places.. well for filipinos.. anyways we ended up going to a mexican food joint and ordering REAL mexican food.. i got a steak burrito and a chocolate milkshake. It was DELICIOUS! then there are all these huge fishponds there and you can buy fish feed and when you feed the fish they go CRAAAZZZYY!!!! LIke they all start jumping on top of eachother and i kid you not there are like thousands of them.. they are those colorful chinese Carp so it was kinda cool haha..
Now.. Lets start with the good news of this week! So the baptism for Brother Rafiel is FOR SURE!! We taught him about the Word of Wisdom, Tithing, and the Law of Chastity. He does not have a problem with any of that so there is nothing really holding us back from getting him baptized now. We have one more lesson with him which is a practice interview then the real interview! He is such a nice and humble guy and he is really excited to be baptized! It was great!
And also yesterday I finally made it out to the pinaka-dulo of my area.. like the outskirts.. it was super far and close to Tagaytay, which means it was up in the mountians. We went there to go visit an elderly member of our ward who isn't able to come to church because of her age.. we brought her the sacrament and shared a message with her. Also, we went tracting out there for a little bit but to ZERO avail.. the people there are very prideful and think they own the world because they live close to tagaytay.. but we did meet a white guy from australia.. my comp was so excited to talk to someone from his country but we still weren't allowed in his house.. it was very beautiful .. i shouldve brought my camera! Dang it!
And about tatay caezar.. uh.. we went back there and his wife was like "Elders Elders! Hurry come help me".. she was frantic and crying.. apparantly they were in an argument and they wanted us to calm things down.. i had a bad feeling about it but decided to see what I could do.. but when we approached the door of their little hut, made basically out of trash, a drunk brother cazear threatened to kill us if we came any closer.. he then started to blame me inparticular for a lot of his problems.. Some of the things he said were really hurtful.. I truly saw the adverse effects of alchohol working in him.. it was really sad.. Idk if I want to go back there after that.. My comp and I will pray about it this week.
We also got back to the Palillo family this week.. or sister Janet and her husband Edgar.. and OMG the spirit was so strong while we were teaching them.. I assigned them a chapter to read out of the book of mormon.. it was second Nephi 2. and she had a full page written about the things she had learned.. She shared them with us then was confused about some of the feelings she had when she was praying.. she said that she all of a sudden started crying and felt very strange.. so right then we switched the lesson from about the plan of salvation to recognizing the spirit.. And mom i related to them the story you sent me about that day when you were in the car with kell and the spirit prompted you to make the decision not to turn potentially saving your lives.. the spirit was way strong.. then we talked a little bit about repentence and its importantce.. (geez i cant spell anymore).. it was way awesome!! But the bad news is that they didnt come to church AGAIn... it was kinda discouraging.. we hope they come this week.
And yeah.. thats pretty much all that happened this week worth noting.. haha.. I love you all and I must go wash my clothes.. Ingat kayo!!
Elder Hansen
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