Well it's mango season here. If you
have never picked a mango off a tree then gone and ate it you totally
should. It's honestly the best thing I have ever done. One thing that
surprised me this week was raw cincumus or turnips in English. So good.
They taste... I don't even know how to explain it... Good. And it's also
sweet corn season right now. So that is pretty amazing. It's a great
time right now. I'm trying to buy all the mango's I can.
So we were walking through an area this week that we
were thinking that we were going to drop. We just haven't had very
good success there. So we were just walking and talking to people and
we decided that we were going to "Knock" on this random persons door.
(In the Philippines its rude to knock... and kind of scary because you
don't want to push their house over. So we walk up to the door and you
say "Tao Po" Or "People" and they will come out.) So this guy came
out and immediately had us come back to his house. He was really
excited to talk about religion with us. So we sat down and had a 2 hour
discussion over lesson one, or the restoration of the gospel. It was
an amazing discussion. This guy is so ready to hear what we have to
say. I almost started to cry when he told me that he was worried for
the salvation of his soul, and that he wanted to purify his soul. We
honestly had the coolest lesson of our life. Then at the end we found
out that he has 9 children.... So a pretty big family... With 8
different women. That was a dagger to the back. But the thing that was
amazing is that I could look at him and tell him that although life has
been really hard for him there is a way to fix it. It wouldn't be
easy, but he can do it. That was a cool moment for me, because in our
gospel no one is ever "too far gone" or a lost cause. We have taught a
few people that have been kicked out of the catholic church because there
is no salvation for their soul. This was the first guy that opened up
to us about why, but I could look at him and say that if he desired it,
he could do that. It was a cool lesson. So we will return to him for
sure.
Well me and Elder Watkins from Alpine, Utah went on
exchanges this week. We had a great day, talked to everyone. Had no
idea what anyone was saying to us.... and it turned out we had no idea
what we were saying to anyone. So we spent the day walking up to people
saying "Nagpakilala po ba kayo sa mga mormon dati?" Or what we thought
was "Have you talked to Mormon's before?".... Everyone would give us this
weird look and act like we were too good for them or something and we
couldn't figure out why. We were so confused. Turns out the sentence we
were looking for was "May kilala po ba kayo na mga mormon dati?" We
walked around all day asking if they have introduced themselves to Mormons before, as if it was a privilege to know us.... Haha oops :)
We had a baptism this week! That was awesome. It turned out to not be a valentines baptism though :( It was Sunday morning, but just as good.
I love you all! Stay safe.
Elder Gordon
1. Picture of baptism
2. Picture of the buzz
Yes, they didn't get him in the full picture :)
Buzz Cut Season
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