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Hi Mom and Dad!
-No package yet
-Thanks for the picture of Connor.(Alex's cousin's mission photo) He looks so great! Tell him I love him!
-That's ok that the Tagalog class is full. I think I could still just take the test and test out of it
Time is just flying by so fast. I only have about 2 and a half weeks left here in Alaminos. I'm just training Elder R. up on everything I do, so he can train the Elder who replaces me, so most of the stuff I was doing, he's now doing! We worked hard this week in our area, and had some real blessings come. However, the Less-Active that got his leg cut off passed away this week. I can honestly say that we gave it our all with him. I'm really sad that he passed away, because I really did grow to love him.
We continued our shopping spree for fans this week! We literally are cleaning the malls out of fans. If they have 7 fans, we take them all. There are only two malls in the mission we haven't gotten to, and all the ones we have are all out! Right now we're sitting at 167 missionaries, and by July we'll be up to 191, with more coming. As for Marinel, they didn't have the money for transportation for the surgery. I want to ask President if I'd be allowed to use personal money (the mission rules don’t allow missionaries to use their personal monies for giving to families)to pay their fare. For the mother and daughter it would be like less than $10.
We went with the Hansen's (a senior missionary couple) this past Saturday night to teach Sister L. and her family. We had a really great visit with them. After the lesson we were walking outside and the nextdoor neighbor started screaming for help. Sister L. sprints into the kitchen and grabs a butchers knife and yells to her husband to "Get the Samurai!" We thought he would get what's called an itak, or a knife thing about a foot long. Instead he runs back in and comes out with a legitimate 3 foot Japanese Samurai sword! Poor Sister Hansen looked like a deer in the headlights and said in her sweet voice, "What's going on?!" Someone was trying to break into the neighbors, but they got away. We went home safe and sound, and are happy there were no casualties.
We've been teaching a Less-Active brother named brother R.. He's in his late 20's, and has been Less-Active for many years. He was baptized as a teenager along with his siblings, but eventually stopped going to church, and eventually got a girlfriend and they started living together. We were previously teaching his brother, but we started teaching him on a regular basis. Like so many Less-Actives, there is still a spark there. Many of them have forgotten what at one time they knew and felt in their heart. As we've been teaching him, he's really started to search his soul, and ask himself by he is really here, and what his purpose is in life. When we don't do the simple things like reading, praying, going to church, our faith weakens. R. told us that he doesn't feel as strong as he used to. He recognizes that something is missing, something that he once had, that he wants back.
As Dad tells me every week, fill up your lamp. Never let that burning flame of your testimony grow dim. As a favorite song says, "but to us he gives the keeping of the lights along the shore." We are the "lower lights", but he has also given to us the keeping of our own testimony. We must keep our testimony bright not only for ourselves, but for others so we can in turn help the lost and weary to come back to light. I know that Christ is the great lighthouse. His light is constant and unchanging. May we feed our flames, keep them burning bright!
Light the Fire Within
Love,
Elder Yost
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