Mapagpalang Araw Po,
It's More Fun in the Philippines:
- I know I have said it before, but I LOVE MY MISSION! I honestly feel like I am living in paradise while sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. We work CRAZY hard every day, and we enjoy every moment of it!
One family we are teaching is trying to build a new house, but they ran out of bamboo. When they expressed this concern I immediately realized I could help them, so I stood up and called a member to see if he could assist us. No later than 30 minutes we were changed into work clothes and the member picked us up. We headed up the mountains and parked the tricycle that we were driving. From there we hiked into a gorge and cut down, collected and loaded up bamboo. We drove that bamboo back to the home of the family we were teaching. All in all, it only took about 4 hours, from the moment that the family expressed their concern of not having enough bamboo all the way to the moment that we stacked the new bamboo at their house. Rather than talking about what we wanted to do in order to find bamboo for them, I jumped up and acted immediately. We had to drop everything we were doing in order to make this work, but ultimately we accomplished what God had planned for us that day. I feel like God was happy for the quickness in which I acted, and he is even happier because we served His children.
WEEKLY CHALLENGE: What is one thing you did today that most likely made God happy? Think about it a bit, and then go out and do one more thing to make God happy. Strive this week to do 1 special thing everyday to make God happy.
Elder Hemmert
Lemery, Batangas
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