Faith, Hope & Leadings of the Spirit

Greetings from Kabankalan City!

I hope all is well back in the states, and that you are enjoying the winter cold setting in. While I on the other hand am still over here sweating it out in the Philippines. Who would have thought that I would be sweating my way through Christmas?

This week has been a great week with some good progress in our work, finding many new investigators and feeling the guidance of the Spirit. I have been able to grow my faith a lot more by simply trusting that things will work out in the end as long as I continually have hope and keep working.

One cool experience this week was where

My Heart is Aching

Wow. I mean wow. My heart aches every time I see any pictures or video footage from the island of Lete. Not to mention how those missionaries must be feeling right now having their entire mission just swept off the map. I've actually lost a little sleep a few nights just thinking about it. I don't know what I would do if I wasn't able to come back to Bacolod after something like that happened there.
 

We received an announcement that we will be receiving some of the missionaries from Tacloban that have been reassigned to our mission, so we hope that they can find a home here in Bacolod and move on somewhat from what they experienced.

All is Well in Kabankalan City

Hello everyone!

So to relieve the tension (though I know that my mission president already announced this on faceboook) our mission is ok and we are all in one piece! No injuries and all happy! :)
 
Just some wind and rain and a little more wind and a little more rain. We never experienced the eye wall I think so there was very minimal damage that happened in my area, except maybe a very little in the poorer areas where their houses are open bamboo huts, but that wasn't too surprising.