Week 21 ~ The Rains Came Down and the Floods Came Up 💧 🚿

It literally flooded this week, like the whole city just had flood water ankle deep everywhere, which is a pretty common occurrence here, but it makes working hard. If you walk through the flood water (especially in the city) and you have any sort of laceration or cut, and there is rat pee in the water, you straight up just return to God's presence. Kita Kits sa judgment day.

This week we set 2 PBD (potential baptism date) so that was good, we worked hard and now we just have to continue to pray and progress our friends through helping them develop connections with God. 

Spiritual thought: Our goal as missionaries isn't to just put all the information we have into people's heads, it's to help them to learn how to feel the Spirit, if we can do that, we can make lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ. We believe that through the Gospel of Jesus Christ "All" can return to the presence of God spotless. However, some people choose to use their agency in a negative way, or defy God because of their own interest or "Intellect". In my opinion, we can go back and forth on all fronts of opinions on the matter. However, the fact of the matter will always exist. God will give you enough for you to believe, and not enough for you to know. If you think you know everything, or if I think I know everything, I'm wrong. We cannot comprehend as mortal humans the magnitude of God's Love and eternal perspective. I invite all that are struggling right now or those who have left, to consider if you can even muster up a seed of faith, a desire to believe. I promise if you do that, God will make little things great. You just have to set apart your pride, and do his will. He will take care of the rest, and I give you my witness to that divine truth.

Tagalog word of the day: Ipinanumbalik (Restoration)


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