Morgan Peterson's Philippines Mission: A Missionary's Work: A Week of One Year Older

1/16/2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER PETERSON!

This week has been a sweet one for sure, both in happiness and literally sweet. Yes, I am now 19, awesome. That means I can... well, do anything that I could while 18, so in the words of Nacho Libre, "Yesssss" (with accent of course) ha!

It has been really great here in the Philippines in Bongabon. After a while you just really come to love the people so much that they're like a 2nd family. Honestly I can't imagine how the culture and temperature is at home now ha! The purpose has really become "How can I love and serve these people to help them grow personally?" So that has been on my mind lately, but ya we had one lesson with our Indian investigator Povi, and he immediately bough us cake when he heard it was my b-day. We also had a celebration with some members and family that we baptized, the Agres family.

Cakes are an expensive indulgence in his area.


#TrueLove #PeanutButter4Life #2WeekSupply

So the spiritual thought this week is about forgiveness. Ya I think all of us have a problem with forgiveness in some kind of case, whether it's for someone else or for ourselves. I find that pride is usually the issue, for me sometimes, it's hard to admit I'm wrong and that is part of the process sometimes. So sometimes, a self-evaluation is in need, but sometimes it's how much humility you need to have to let someone be right, when you know you're right. Sometimes there's a miscommunication or a simple mistake. In the end we really need to think about what will happen to you or them, and is it ultimately worth it. Jesus suffered for us and loved us and ya, us people killed him, honestly that's hard to say, but he forgave us and continues to love us. I know as we continue to strive to be like Christ, our Savior, we can learn this Christlike attribute and help change ourselves and other's lives.