Thou Art Mine
Hello and welcome to another episode of Sister Larson in the Philippines Iloilo Mission. This episode takes place in a shockingly dry and hot coastal area of the island of Panay called Antique. She has just had a great week with many cameos of interested people who turn out to be not interested at all. Wa wa. She also met some super cool people this week who hopefully will make an appearance in later episodes. The stage is set. Readdyyyyyy……
ACTION
MAN ON THE BEACH *with no Lana*
There was one day this week where we were exploring one of our areas called Madrangca. It's the closest area to the beach and we were trying to meet some new people there. So after a while of going house to house we asked this lady where there were lots of house and she said “on the beach”. So darn it we had to go to the beach. There were in fact many houses but mostly just lots of kids. So we kept walking until we reached some boats on the shore and there was one fisherman just sitting on the side of his boat looking at the ocean. So we walked up to him and just kinda started talking. He's probably in his 60s and he told us he was just waiting for it to be dark enough to go catch some fish. We ended up giving him a Book of Mormon and he said he's been wondering which church is true and also asked where our church is. YAH. So we gave him all necessary information but he wasn't there on Sunday so guess who's getting a visit this week.
I don't have a picture of the man but this is the beach.
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SISTER SHEILA Sister Sheila is a member here in San Jose and she is like 85% blind and lives by herself usually. She's in her 30s and she was born seeing but throughout her life her eyesight has become progressively worse. Sister Pecundo and I visited her this week and after sharing our message she bore the sweetest testimony. She said that yes she prays every night she will wake up being able to see but also that she knows without a doubt that God loves her and gave her this challenge for a reason. She said she knows the church is true and even though she literally can't read the Book of Mormon she believes it to be true as well. She has that kind of astonishing faith you only see in people who have faced serious trials. REMY We have a little rat friend here in our house and it's been eating my bread so we are not on good terms. Anyway he finally ate the poison and then just like decided to die at our front door. Classy right. Just thought I'd update you on the rat situation. SERVICE This week we had a few opportunities to serve people in our area. We offer to help people everyday and most of the time they just look at us a laugh. Rude. Anyway 2 people actually let us help this week. The first one was we shredded this fabric to fill up the pillows they were selling and they asked us lots of questions. The second one was a nanay who's husband has had a stroke and is wheelchair bound. She was trying to literally plant a grove of trees by herself and she's at least 60 years old. So we said no no no. And despite her protests, we just straight up planted like an entire garden. She was saying “no you'll be tired” or “no you'll be dirty”. And we were like “give me the shovel”. After we planted we shared the plan of salvation and how we will all be resurrected one day with perfect bodies. Tatay cried the whole time.
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