Well the same lady I was talking about last week that thought that Jesus Christ was a bird, asked us this week "Is Jesus Christ a tree?" So I'll keep y'all updated for the next episode of "I Thought Jesus Christ Was A Fairytale" hahahha she's so crazy.
We worked really hard this week and had a lot of little, cool miracles happen to us. We had a lot of people commit and promise to come to church and a lot of people have really awesome lessons. And then it got to Sunday and everything just kind of fell apart haha. We always send out a text on Saturday night reminding people to come to church and inviting those that are in our contact list especially those who promised to come to church. Then come Sunday, and we received FIVE texts literally in a row right after each other, from five different people, saying why they aren't going to come to church. And mind you, these are the people that literally PROMISED to come to church. One of them said she had an important place to go and we asked where and then she accidentally sent us a message that was not for us, which was her forwarding our message to someone else saying "this is what they said." So we feel like she was lying to us but it's all good we will figure that all out this week. And then others said they were out of town. And then one said "Yeah I am just not gonna come to church again there because I'm catholic"so that's awesome. Hahah we had a roughSunday morning.
Then I went to sacrament and I felt a lot of peace knowing people had their agency to choose. We had one guy show up to church which was good and we were happy for him. I felt the spirit in sacrament and was feelign good the entire time I was at church. We spent the second hour watching the video tha came out by the first presidency about the new Youth and Children program that they are doing to help families grow closer. I love it! Then Sister Baczuk and I got back to the house, and it all just kind of hit me. I just felt an overwhelming heaviness weigh on my shoulders that we had worked so hard throughout the week spending the entire time inviting people to come to church and having them agree to, and then come Sunday, and almost every single person falling through. Satan got to my head and I was pretty down for the rest of the day. And then the whole day of working time, we got super rejected and no one was home and no one ould invite us in. So the whole day was kind of hard, but at the end of the day I just kept remembering the section in Preach my Gospel that talks about people's agency. It says some people will not receive the gospel due to their own agency. Some people will choose to reject the message EVEN though they have received a spiritual witness that it is true.
So I picked my head up and remembered that I should not be worrying about things that are out of my control. Sister Baczuk did all we could last week to invite people to come unto Christ, and then at the end of the week, people still had their agency, and that just needed to be okay with us. They aren't rejecting me when they say no, they are rejecting Jesus Christ. Sometimes it is easy to take it so personally but it's their responsibility not ours to get themselves to church and to keep their commitments. Our job is just to invite them and to help them as much as we can to understand the importance of keeping commitments. I always remember something one of my highschool teachers said to me my sernior year, "If it won't matter in 5 years, don't spend more than 5 minutes worrying about it." I won't remember this feeling in 5 years. All I will remember is how much I love the people in the Philippines and I will remember the amazing relationships I have developed here and all the people that DID come unto Christ through my efforts. So I have spent my 5 minutes, so now it's time to spend my time being happy that I have the best calling in the world!!
This next week will be superrr busy for us. We have Mission Leadership Conference and Zone Conference and Exchanges all in one week, so it'll be crazy and we won't get to work to our fullest, but I know Heavenly Father will take care of everything because He has a perfect plan for us!!! I hope daddy's birthday was the best! I was thinking about him all Saturday! I love you all and hope this week is a joyous one for y'all.
Sister Robertson
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| there was this really cute place in hinigaran that we ate at right before exchanges! |
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| my comp(: |
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| family week was this week and we all got shirts and got permission to wear them with skirts! |
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| this is cute tatay rodolfo when it started raining hahha |
