It was a good week here in the Philippines. Nothing super special or out of the ordinary happened though hahha. So sorry in advance if this bores y'all!
One thing that happened this week is there was one night I woke up at 3 am with rashes all over my body and it was sooo itchy so I got up and took some benadryl then went back to bed then the next morning I was fine. It happened to me the following night as well, but worse. I guess that's kind of interesting but not really hahha. Still have no idea what it was from or why it happened. There were no other symptoms except that so my body just took a weird trip I don't know.
Today is the last Monday of the transfer so by Saturday night, I will know what is happening with transfers- but my feeling is I will stay in the area with Sister Regacho so there won't be anything that will change. I asked President this week if I would be stepping down to train and he said "You're stronger as a Sister Training Leader and I am scared to take you out of the area because the area will die without you in it." I was touched but also sad cause that means I may not be able to train again even though he told me back in June that I would train again:( I wanted to so bad but I am willing and excited to follow the revelation he receives whatever it is. Sister Regacho also asked if she would train again and he said no because she has already trained three missionaries. So yeah I may be going home from this area. I also found out there are four of us all going home on December 18 so I won't be alone! So that's exciting! I can attend the temple in Manila because I will have a companion! So I am happy about that(:
I studied on charity one day this week and it brought me to tears because I was so filled with the spirit. As I read in Moroni 7, I was looking on verses about the Atonement of Jesus Christ for one of the people we teach and I read verse 41 about hope through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and then I kept on reading to see if there was more than one verse I could use. Then my eyes skimmed over verse 45 and I read it over probably 10 times just over and over. I read it slowly and pondered on every attribute that it lists about someone who has charity. I realized that I have yet so much missing in my charity for those around me because I have yet to develop most of those characteristics. When life gets hard, it is so easy to question why. It is so easy to question what you did to deserve that trial. And then I read that a person who has charity (which is the number one characteristic of the Lord Jesus Christ himself) is "long-suffering... beareth all things.. [and] endureth all things." All those three qualities are listed in one scripture about the pure love of Christ and that is exactly what we need. We need to be able to bear up all the burdens that God decides to let us carry. We need to endure all the trials that are set before us. And then it simply says charity is kind. We just need to be kind and love those around us and be willing to even bear other's burdens, not just our own. I have definitely felt that as I am a Sister Training Leader and am over 10 other sisters and I am the one that they are supposed to rely on and unload everything onto. So I have felt that a little bit. Anyway, I was touched by that scripture and then awakened to a sense of "I need to change" when it simply says in the next verse that if you have no charity, you are nothing. And I want to be something. So charity is what I want to work on this week(: I was super humbled down to my knees that I have so much farther to go to be filled with charity but I know that as I try everyday, miracles will happen! That's what life is all about.
That's literally all I can think of right now. In terms of the work, we are just continuing to work hard to bring souls unto Christ and really trying to find the elect that God has chosen. I truly believe that the field is white all ready to harvest, so we are trying to find those people that are ready! We spent this week trying to focus our efforts on those that are progressing and not so much on the ones that aren't. RJ is continuing to progress and get excited for his baptism on September 14! He keeps inviting all his neighbors and friends to come to church and we have seen how his missionary efforts, even though he isn't yet a member, have had a positive effect on his friends. Some of them are already coming to church! He is so great!
That's all I got, sorry! I'll try to do better next time. I miss y'all and love y'all the most!
Sister Robertson
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| some of the people we teach unexpectedly came to church which made us so happy! |
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| some cute members we visited |
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| some of my favorite people here in la carlota!! dont ask why im wearing glasses i just like it |
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| the Catin family!! RJ is on the right who is getting baptized in a couple weeks and his parents are on the left who got baptized a few weeks ago! |
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| sister regacho and i ate at the CUTEST restaurant that looked straight like it was from austin and these quotes were on the wall and they are good |
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| we also ate some YUMMY fried rice at a restaurant |
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| and these were some yummy drinks we got. it made me miss austin a lot not gonna lie |
