A Missionary's Work: Serving In All Sorts Of Ways

From his Mission president's blog- http://clarksangelesmission.blogspot.com/

Hi everyone,

It's good to be alive and you can feel it almost everyday with hard, sad, happy, ecstatic times. How's it going at home with winter being over? It's still hot here and getting hotter, yay (sarcastic). We are doing great, working hard, teaching lots of people about Christ, and learning everyday. I ate blood pork soup the other day and worked in the bukid cutting onions and rode a caribou. Oh, and a giant cockroach the size of 3-4 quarters side by side decided to chill on my arm yesterday, which I didn't notice until a member told me by freaking out. Apparently they bit, but my flicking finger must've been faster, ha! Pretty sweet, but the service is the best part.

This week has been an interesting one with helping investigators. we have an investigator and she's had a hard life and is still always smiling which is great. She lives with her grandma who supports her in everything, but her mom has been gone since she was 1 and her did is always gone also. Last time we taught her, her dad was there and he was so so drunk. She has some hard feelings against him and was in tears. one of our purposes as missionaries is to help her out any way we can. so as we taught her and tried to help her emotionally too, her dad entered and so we continued to teach, but she was very bothered and so having a thought come to my mind, I helped him up and conversed with him in the other room. I tried to convince him to sleep actually, because he was really drunk and needed to just sleep it off. Though when we left, I could tell that she felt a lot better from what my companion had taught her. It lifter her up spiritually and emotionally. Sometimes we need to be willing to do something we don't necessarily want to do to help someone out. Like a small sacrifice to help someone come out of their low place and make it to a little higher of a place in their life. I wouldn't recommend doing what I did to help out, but we can all do something that takes a little more of us to help someone else out a lot more. Maybe that's my invitation to you all, be ready and willing to do all you can to help someone else.

Love you all,
Keep me updated on life, and keep smiling. :)

I'll send pics next time, the connection here sucks.