It was a good week though.
After the many, many stressful weeks I finally was able to sit back for a few minutes this week, reflect on what has happened these past 3 months here in Libmanan and honestly, with relief, say to myself that progress has actually been made, and not just a little bit. It was a GREAT feeling! Still is. Even though there is still a long way to go, I am proud of this area, its leaders, and its members in putting forth greater effort to help the church grow and the members become more established here. One part to our Naga 'Rising to the Mission Vision' is to always leave our areas better than we found them. That has been one of my major goals here on my mission so far, that whatever I do, I do it with the betterment of this area in mind. Every area is different. Every area needs something else. But whatever they need, thats what I give them so as to better HELP the area progress and not hinder the Lord's work from progressing. It has been really amazing to see the Lord's hand in every single one of my areas so far. When we, as missionaries (and members) strive to be exactly obedient, and seek for the Spirit to guide our work and our lives, we begin to do His work, how He wants it, when He wants it, and how He would have us do it..and in return are blessed as He has promised us. This is all about our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We must align our own will with theirs. It is great.
For my "one-year," Sister Lua and I roasted hot dogs and marshmallows for smores! Yum.
Today we went on a hike to some falls in Palong, Libmanan for our district activity. It was super fun and refreshing. District Activity= transfer time again. Crazy no? Saturday night we will find out who is staying here in Libmanan and who is leaving. I have no clue what is going to happen. ha so we will all be surprised. :)
Also, sister Gemma is getting baptized this week! Her husband was baptized many years ago and has since become inactive but is slowly coming back to church again and this weekend sister will be baptized! We are really excited for her! She's awesome.
Oh and this week, Sis Lua and I just had some enlightening or something, I'm not exactly sure what happened but we both gained this great amount of energy and motivation to really get our investigators to gain testimonies and to help them progress toward true conversion (remember we have been focusing almost all of our efforts on less-actives so not much has been happening with our investigators butttt now, things are getting rolling again and it feels so great!)
We have been much bolder this week. Loving of course, but bold and actually committing the people to do things. Just a few days of this and an progress is beautiful. More updates on that in the weeks to come.
Feeling good. :) Almost all sickness has left my body, I think, so we are both just go go go. :)
Had exchanges this week with Sister Andres. Remember her? My companion for 3 weeks in Baao ha That was fun. It was cool to see how we have both grown so much and man, every lesson was just so powerful! It is really cool when you get two kind of 'seasoned' missionaries who know more of what they are doing and don't really have much fear anymore together because you just rock and roll all day long. haha It was fun.
Love you all. Talk to you next week!
Mahal ko po kayo!
-Sister Roderick
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