Hey ya'll Its funner and hotter in the Philippines! We're loving it up, every minute of it. I'm just trying to more fully enjoy the mission, the people, culture, and the time. Its great! I can already think about the how fast it all goes, as far as I know one day I'm here in the Philippines the next, I'll be an old, hard nosed, wrestling coach like coach D (just joking... he's crazy too,hahaha! ;) ). But really I can't believe i'm 19 and serving tons of people in the Philippines.
Anyway this week was awesome we had a combined baptism in the next area over, Rizal, its a bayan (like between a small city and a town). That was the highlight, to really see these people take their first step towards God is amazing, We are blessed to see absolute U-turns in peoples lives, like them. I love and am sooo up-lifted when I get to that.
The part I'd love to share with you guys today is about Patience with love. This week wasn't like an unusual crazy hard on my patience, but I found that I was a little annoyed or not happy from something that was said or just not feeling it. And not to my companions fault but the wrong feelings from other situations made me feel not so great. I had suddenly thought about life as a race (a long long one, maybe like a marathon) that there are times we fall down from trials and hardships (like tripping or falling from fatigue in the race) and then sometimes we just take off sprinting not thinking about the distance. Of course you get tired really fast and probably won't make it if we continue like that. So that where patience comes in or "pacing yourself" in the race. When we're patient that's when we're also humble enough to continue to learn and grow. WE need to endure in patience but out of love really. If we have patience but not with love it will almost always just be a bomb waiting to blow, building till one can't take it any more. But if it's out of love you can let things go if you need to. I think of Christ. He patiently suffered his atonement in the garden of Gethsemane and on the cross and through it all he loved them. His last words were "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do" he could've said anything but ask forgiveness for those who hurt him. So try this week to live like the Savior and be patient with love.
love ya all
Elder Peterson
remember stay Pogi, smile on, and laugh a little!
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