Hi everyone!
This week was rough. Elder Hedman and I were sick some of the days this week but mostly Elder Hedman which was kinda sad. Some days we had to come home a little early which was okay cause we got to study a lot.
We still had a good week and got a lot of work done. We're getting along really well. Elder Hedman's really funny and I'm learning a lot from him every day.
We also had a lot of meetings this week. including District council and a meeting at the mission office with President and Sister Fermanis. The meeting was just for the new missionaries out in the field. President answered a lot of our questions and it helped a lot.
So even though Elder Hedman was sick I still got to work and go on an exchange with one of my kabahay (people I live with), Elder Omer. He's been out about a year as well. We went to his area but we had no teaching appointments. So he made me just go talk to people and practice my Tagalog on people.
He would pick a random person and say "hi can we ask you a question?" and then he would look at me and say "Elder what was your question?" So I would have to practice my Tagalog and it was great. I learned a ton from doing it for a couple of hours.
Something sad happened this week. A 7 year old boy was in the hospital sick with dengue fever. Some members asked if we could give him a priesthood blessing so we did. Sadly, later that day he passed away.
Yesterday we attended his funeral with some of the members from our ward and our stake president. It was a great service and definitely got me thinking about the gospel when it comes to little children.
In Moroni chapter 8 it talks about little children and baptism. There's two scriptures from that chapter that I really like.
The first one was 8:12 "But little children are alive in Christ, even from the foundation of the world if not so, God is a partial God, and also a changeable God and respecter to persons for how many little children have died without baptism!" All children are alive in Christ and He loves them all so very much.
In 8:17 it says " And I am filled with charity which is everlasting love wherefore all children are alike unto me wherefore, I love little children with a perfect love and they are alike and partakers of salvation."
I love these scriptures so much. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love all little children.
I know through the plan of salvation Heavenly Father has a plan for each one of us and a plan for this family. Through His love and care we can get through everything if we continue to have faith and trust in Him.
Our Heavenly Father loves us all. Thanks everyone for everything and have a great week!
Elder Espiritu
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| At the barber getting our hair cut |
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| After one of our dinner appointments |
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| Weights at our house |
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| My Tita (Aunt) Bennette was visiting from Hawaii |
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| At church (posted by one of the members) |
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