5 Dec 2010

Hey Everyone

Okay, I officially say that we can start celebrating Christmas. We've hit December. ha ha I am such a Grinch its not even funny.


Well it was a great Sunday yesterday.  We had 4 confirmations, 1 baby blessing, and 3 great potential priesthood investigators attend church. The confirmations and the baby blessing really set a great mood for the sacrament service and Elder Cagayanan did a great job with his first confirmation. One of the investigators, Brother Alvero, came to church for the first time and last week was the first time we taught him. ha ha. He's great! Then one of the others that came, was baptized over a year ago, but never confirmed, then his wife left him, then he became inactive and started drinking to try and drown the pain. He was singing a whiskey lullaby. ha ha sorry mom.

We got to attend Ward council yesterday and we brought up the concern about Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching. Then we worked with them to realized that they needed to reorganize their programs. The very last testimony of the day was a big let down. This Sister got up and basically told everyone that the leaders of the church are not good and told a sob story about how she went inactive and no one followed up on her or visited her. I can understand her frustration, and the leaders should have done their job and followed up with members especially when they ask for someone to come visit them but then again she should have brought that up in private not in front our investigators and all the new members. We told her that last night when we went to her house. She apologized and its a good thing that my companion is around, he handled the situation perfect. I sure hope that everyone that is members of the church are fulfilling their callings. Because you are not the only ones that suffer if you don't. Don't be selfish and say that you are too busy because we don't want the Lord to say that he is too busy for us.

We just got back from Mt Samat earlier. It is so cool up there!!!! Oh my gosh, and its cold. The Cross puts you way up in the air and you can see 3 of the towns around the area. ha ha. I got some cool pictures and a cool T-shirt. Then we went down into the museum and looked at all the guns and pictures of the POW's and the Philippines at the time of the war. It was crazy. It kinda made me sad thinking about how evil people get sometimes.

I'm outta time I love you all

Elder Westwood.