It's More Fun in the Philippines (Highlights):
- Catherine Enriquez was baptized on October 18. This was also her Birthday, so she turned 19 on the same day that she was baptized! Catherine or CatCat or Kath (a lot of nicknames) has been attending church for quite some time, but she just never felt ready for her baptism. As I explained in my email a few weeks ago we simply invited her to pray to know if she was ready for her baptism. She ended up receiving an answer, and she quickly prepared for the great day of her Birthday/Baptism.
- FUN FACT: One cultural belief is that people in the Philippines are darker skinned because of the heat while people in the US are white because it is "always cold" in the US. The funny thing is that they use soaps to make their skin whiter while Americans use lotions that make our skin darker. BALIKTAD!!! (reversed!)
We have a family that we are working to get back to church after what has now been years of them not attending. They are very nice to us, but still hesitant to come back. Last week we invited (slightly forced) the 16 year old son of that family to join us for a few of our appointments on one of the upcoming days. When the day finally arrived for him to come with us we stopped by his house to pick him up. On our arrival he was dressed in basketball clothing and he had also invited one of his friends to join. As we began walking we quickly got to know the friend and we shared a few laughs. However, the laughs stopped when one of the boys asked, "Marami ba ang ibang maglalaro?" (Are there a lot of other people playing basketball?). Confused by their question we asked what they were talking about which they responded by inquiring who would be playing against the four of us. We quickly came to realize that somehow they got the idea that we invited them to play basketball, they had no idea we were actually headed to a few people to share short messages about Jesus Christ. With this new realization we busted out laughing and explained to them that we wouldn't be playing basketball. Of course they were shocked, but we convinced them to stay with us for the next few appointments. Ultimately, we got very close to the two boys and we are now regularly teaching the new friend. It was quite the way for the boy to be introduced to our message, but as we know, the Lord works in mysterious ways! Maybe one of our rest days we will actually go play basketball with them HAHA!!
ELDER HEMMERT
Lemery Batangas
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