-I got the two packages!
- Quite an announcement!! (58 new missions announced)They all make sense, but Legaspi Mission? They split Naga mission which is a little puzzling...at least there's a VIRGINIA Chesapeake Mission!
- Thanks for sending the pictures!
Well golfing was good the other week!! I'm not very good....at all! Although, I honestly wasn't as bad as I thought I'd be! It just felt kind of weird because it was at a beautiful country club, and I haven't been anywhere like that for a very long time! For lunch I had a BACON CHEESEBURGER. Like a real one...needless to say it was amazing!!
Right now we're starting transfer week here and things will be busy! The missionaries that are going home this transfer are here at the mission home right now and will be leaving tomorrow morning. Elder Cook is going home! It honestly is a little weird because the Elders in this batch are really the first batch to go home which I was pretty close with. After them I have three transfers left here. It's weird how fast time is flying and how fast things are approaching. (Alex will be flying home on July 3rd)
Elder Eyre is going to be leaving the office this transfer day!!! He'll be re-opening Pola for his last transfer. We're really sad to see Elder Eyre leave and it'll be really weird not having him here.
Tatay Sendong and JR were baptized!! (see PHOTOS above) It was such a great baptism. Between us, the AP's and the Alaminos Elders, 7 people were baptized yesterday in our ward! Since I've been here in Alaminos ward, there have been 18 baptisms here. This is the most progressing area in the mission as far as baptisms go (and it should be, there are 6 of us here!). We've been blessed with such great success here, and have been able to baptize two families. On the other hand, we're now completely out of investigators!!! We're really focusing our efforts this week on finding and re-building up our teaching pool. We're so busy that we really focus on getting our set appointments that sometimes we don't have as much time to tract. We'll be hitting the pavement hard this week, but we'll be super busy with the 14 new missionaries that get here tomorrow.
I've been thinking a lot about the Atonement recently and the role it plays in missionary work. The Prophet Joseph Smith said that the Atonement is central to everything, and everything else we do is just an appendage to it. What missionary work comes down to is us helping people access the blessings of the Atonement. Everyone needs it, no one can be saved with out it. It's our job to help others access the power of the Atonement. I know that Christ suffered the pains of every person, and that he descended below all, and triumphed despite all the opposition. I love the Savior so much. I know that he loves us more than we can imagine. As he showed his love for us through his atoning sacrifice, may we show him our appreciation and reverence for his atoning sacrifice through changing and through our actions. Let's stand a little taller, and be a little more humble, and be more diligent in all things we do and in all places we may be in, even as Jesus Christ himself did.
Love,
Elder Yost
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