Hey Family!
So transfers are
tomorrow and yesterday we found out who's staying and who's going! So I'm
staying here and Aue will be leaving and my new companion will be Elder Balili
(He's Filipino). So tomorrow Elder Balili he'll arrive and Aue will leave so
next p-day I'll send some photo's :D
So I'm extremely
excited, sad and nervous ahahaha. So Sad that Aue is leaving :( Excited that I
have a Filipino Companion and nervous because he won't speak much english and I
now have to lead in the area, so that's knowing where everyone is, knowing who
to see each day and stuff like that!
So I'm really
excited that he's Filipino as he'll be able to help me with my Tagalog a lot
more than a foreigner. So my plan is for when he's around is Tagalog out in the
field, during weekly planning and during comp study then the rest in English
(so pretty much breakfast lunch and dinner). So hopefully he'll be able to
teach me a lot when I'm with him :)
Today we went
bowling, sorry no action shots but it was only AMF bowling anyway :) We went to
this cool as burger place where aue tried to do this burger challenge! It wqas
a 2 pound burger and 300g of fries, if he could down it in 10min it was free.
He only got through the burger before time was up and then he went and threw up
hahaha
Sorry for the
lack of photo's i actually lost my charger cable so i can charge my camera
until I buy a new one which will probs be next week tuesday but i can upload by
taking out the sd card :)
Here's Dad's 3
Questions too
1. What does it
mean to you to be a good companion?
Being a good
companion is recognizing your comps flaws and then filing them or helping them
to fill them, a lot of people will just recognize a flaw or weakness in someone
but a good comp will try their best to fill it. So it might sound a little
weird or even hard to understand but every person has a weakness and your job
as their comp is to help strengthen that weakness into a strength, which will
in turn form a strong unity between you and your comp. And strong unity is key
in success, as we've been called to teach in 2's
2. How does the
Lord direct you day to day?
I guess the
Spirit is key in that, as in it's all through the spirit. So in DC 50 is the
scripture that bases the entire PMG off (the title is in verse 14). In there is
talks about the spirit being the only way to preach the gospel. As a missionary
it's key not only in a lesson but at all other times of the day. Literately
everything is down by the spirit, we actually don't really do much, it's all
given to us through the spirit, that's why its best to be obedient so that you
get the spirit.
3. What tender
mercies have you been blessed with this week?
I think i would
say my language, this week I received an ultimate compliment from Elder
Baylosis (Filipino) when he said that he really liked my accent when I speak
Tagalog saying it sounds much better than most Americans. It was a really cool
thing to hear as accent is something I've been working on for a while. So i
guess the way the language has been explained to be by Filipinos is that they
say words slowly but join them together i guess, in other words, it sounds like
their words don't stop or start. And these last weeks I've noticed that I am
more able to speak more like natives do, obviously I'm not close to perfect but
I am improving daily :D
So love you all
and hope you guys have an awesome week!!
Love Elder Holzworth
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