Yep this week has been another great week here in the Philippines. So yea this week has flown by so quickly its ridiculous. Time here just flies so quickly it feels like I literally just got here I'm the Philippines. So yea its been so weird we had another great week here me and Elder Webster. We have been having so much success in this area it feels so good to find new people. This area is going so great we have made this area grow. Many less-actives have been wanting want to come to church. So I actually am going to talk about some of the less actives in my area cause our mission has now focused more on bring our less actives back and establish the church again here in the Philippines.
So anyways the amount of members in the Philippines is 650,000 and the amount of members that are less active are 559,000 so yea that's a big problem. So we have alot of less actives in our ward so we have been having a good time teaching those people and many have already been coming back its so great to see how they feel when they do come back. So yea first we have a less active family the De Ramos family there is actually just two in the family though. The tatay and son cause he had his wife die also his brother so we have been building them back up. The dad or tatay has forgotten everything cause he is very old and he has been less active for a long time. So what we have been doing is bringing back the good things they remember as members and being active. His son John Ray actually has come once with us to church and we have built a really great relationship with him. We were actually able to bring him to a members family home evening he had a great time and is really doing great so is tatay, but we still need to work on some things especially his smoking problem so yea but they are so stinking cool.
Next we have Robert, he is a 13 year old member that was actually baptized back in September by two elders he has been active cause he was baptized by his good friend here in the Philippines, but then his friend that was his fellowshipper or the person that he went with to church went on his mission so after he left he became less active. So we have really been working on him especially the fact that he is the only member in his family so its especially hard for him. He is so cool though he is about the height of NG, but makes all of us missionaries when we play with the ward look like the cruddiest players remind you my comp is 6'5 and he made him look bad so hes really good at bball. Hes really good though and he wants to come but the thing in here in the Philippines is no one wants to come to anywhere by themselves, so now on we go and get him until we can find a friend for him to come with him.
One more we have this less active named Mariel, shes a less active in the ward shes 19 years old her grandparents are active in the ward her, her ate (sister), and her mother are the only members in her family. The thing has been is her mom has been working on Sundays so they haven't been able to go cause like I said no one here in the Philippines don't like to go places by themselves. Plus though her mom finishes her work in March so ibig sabihin they will be able to go to church again and be active, we are actually teaching her sister who is not a member so that's another plus. Yea the life here is so fun.
I loving life here and I'm really looking forward to this week cause this week we have a mission tour this week. What mission tour is we have one of our mission area presidency come to our mission and visit missionaries in their areas. We are being visited by Elder Nielson of the Seventy what he does is tomorrow for me we have a big conference with him and get to meet him and hear him speak and then he goes around after the conference and visits every apartment makes sure its clean and that the area books are updated. So I'm really excited about this. So I love you mom and cant wait to tell you how it goes this week love you.
Mahal kita,
Elder Thompson
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| Elder Thompson with member |
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