week 68

Hello,

This week was a really good week. We had our ward Christmas party on saturday night which was tons of fun. For the party they wanted to cook up a pig but needed help killing it so of course i volunteered us four elders to help. It was so funny. Videos and pics will be sent. 

This past saturday  Joyce and Jessica were baptized. I dont know if you remember them.. We found them back when I was in Dasma 2. They are sisters and their older sister is an investigator as well but hasnt been baptized quite yet. Well... They have been coming to church all this time and were finally baptized this past Saturday. It was a really cool baptism and lots of people came and supported them. It was such a happy day to see someone who has been investigating so long and changing aspects of their life to be more Christ Like and finally enter the waters of baptism. 

Yesterday we had our christmas zone conference! It was tons of fun. In the morning we just had a normal zone conference with the training and all. However near the end President told us he had a surprise for all of us and so i got excited and then he dropped the bomb.... WE ARE GETTING MICROWAVES LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!! After that we all had district presentations and my district we went a little off and thought of doing something different. So we were the final presentation and every single district just sang a hymn out of the hymnbook. Like a Christmas song. So right before we got up President came up to me and said "Elder Sackley I hope your presentation is in line with the spirit in the room right now" well i got super nervous and started doubting what we had chosen to do but it turned out to be dope. We played the cup song from pitch perfect and sang a tagalog song called star ng pasko and it was amazing. We definitely took the cake. I will send a video of it later. 

Love you all lots!

Elder gsack

week 67

Hello,

This week lots has been going on. We have plenty going on with stake conference, trips to the hospital and exchanges but overall its been a fun good week,

One thing that really sticks out to me this week is we are working on effective finding. Here in the philippines i could easily get 10 plus new investigators in one day but odds are they arent very interested or are little kids hahaha so we are really working on finding quality and not so much on random people off the street. So the other day we went to the Educado family. The mother has been a member all her life but has been mostly less active. She was just reactivated last july and all her kids were baptized so right now they are a very active family. Except Tatay. Brother Educado is not a member. He was given a book of mormon back in 1997 and since then nothing. So we were able to talk to him the other day which was interesting. He seemed to just be joking around and almost rude but i felt something that he really actually wanted to listen so we set a return date for tuesday. When we went back on tuesday he was very welcoming and let us in right away. we made sure to get his wife and all his kids and have them sit in on the lesson. We went through and taught a very powerful lesson one to brother. He asked questions through out the lesson and you could tell he was legit interested. At the end of the lesson all the kids chipped in their own pieces and it was really good. You could see how he knew this gospel helped his family and wanted a part of it too. However before we closed he opened up to us how there were things in his life he wanted to change. he shared with us some stuff he had done and wanted to change to be better for himself and his family. We were able to bear our testimony to him and promise him if followed the gospel of Jesus Christ he could change for the better. he nodded and said I will do anything and everything to become better. It was a sweet lesson and we are really excited to go back and teach him. 

other random things we are killing the pig tomorrow night so i am hyped for that. We have our ward christmas party on saturday and our zone christmas party on wednesday so it should be a pretty fun week! Love you all lots!

Elder gsack