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