Two out of the 3 happened the day I got to go on exchanges with our zone Leader Elder Langeveld. I quite enjoyed it actually. That day at 1 we went to work. It was raining slightly hard so we decided to bring umbrellas. Elder Langeveld was just on a different exchange the day before which took up all his appointments. That day we decided to just find new people to teach. It was really great to talk to everyone and for me to realize how much I can talk to people. They still always question how I'm full Filipino.
Only an hour into finding, we went to a current investigator of Elder Langeveld. She was a really nice lady. As soon as we were about to leave she asked "do you like squid?" At first we thought she wanted to sell them so Elder Langeveld asked how much (I probably wouldn't have because I'm not a fan), but turns out she just wanted to give them to us.
So we had 2 dead squid. Knowing we couldn't carry them around the whole day we took them home. Once we got them out we put them in the sink and took them out of the bag. Turns out the ink sac was still inside both of the squid and they started leaking ink like they were bleeding heavily. We ended up having to clean up an ink bath for a little bit.
After that we went to work, and right after we visited a member, it started raining really hard. I've never seen it rain so hard anywhere. Within 5 minutes the streets where flooded. We took shelter by a local basketball court and just talked to some guys for a little and took a selfie with them. By 10 minutes we were in the rain it felt like we jumped into the ocean due to how soaked we are. But we still enjoyed teaching and talked to a lot of people.
Now to a little more spiritual side of my week. Update on Sister Florida: because of district conference we weren't able to have her baptized this past Saturday because she couldn't be confirmed right away. But she did pass her baptismal interview, and this Saturday April 29th is her baptism! I am so excited for her and she will probably be joined by another member’s daughter who is turning 8 that day. I am really excited for her. She has really been our focus this past week so that's the update on our work.
Now I will tell you a little bit about our District Conference. All the missionaries within the Bangui district (22 of us including the senior couple), members of Bangui district and President and Sister Andrada attended this meeting. There were 3 meetings this one day and they were all great. Elder Langeveld, Elder Bulado, Elder Nuada, Sister Ganaden, some other members and I sang a couple songs as "district choir". I quite enjoyed it.
One thing I liked that President Andrada talked about is one of the easiest and best abilities is to be available. The question for all of us is, "Are you available for the Lord?" Do you not have enough time to remember Him? There are 6 days that we are free to use to what we need, and all we are asked is to read, pray every day, and go to church on Sunday. It is simple, but sometimes we tell ourselves we're "too busy". We are never too busy for that. We should never be too busy for God.
The 2nd thing I really liked (some of you may have heard this before) was a talk about the worth of souls. She first held up a 500 peso bill and said "who wants this?" Of course everyone would. Then she proceeded to crumple it up to make the bill look ugly and undesirable. She then asked if we still wanted this. Of course we all still did. It was still 500 pesos even if it wasn't "pretty" anymore.
Now we relate this to our souls. Some of us may have been crumpled up, stepped on, more dirty than others, but the worth of our soul is still the same. In the scriptures Doctrine and Covenants Chapter 18 verse 10 it says "Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God"
So remember that no matter what has happened to us, God still loves us and we are just as loved even if we are a little more crumpled up or dirty. I'm sure none of us are a perfectly clean bill or soul, but that's what the gospel is here for. We do our best to keep improving ourselves every day. No matter what happens, the worth of our soul is still the same.
So my request for all of you reading, never forget your worth! You are still of worth and we can always do our best to clean ourselves up and become clean again! Love you all, and miss you! Until next week!
Elder Espiritu
**you can email Elder Espiritu at joseph.espiritu@myldsmail.net
It's always fun by the Sea
Squids are messy
Lunch with the Labii family
District Conference
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