It's another nice, cool, & rainy day in Bayawan city. I walked out of the apartment today & looked at the palm tress, smelled the rain on the pavement, & felt the cool breeze. I felt, if only for a moment, like I was back home in America.
It was nice to hear about everyone's week! I completely forgot that it was St. Patrick's day. I turned & told Elder Glines...he forgot as well. If I would have remembered, maybe I would have worn a green tie to celebrate. Anyway, I loved the pictures from your trip to Arizona! Daxton is getting so big & you & Chad have got the be the best looking couple I've ever seen. You two are so gwapo! I can't wait to go down to Spring Training with you guys when I get back. Me & Tanner can speak Cebuano together! I'm sure he still remembers it.
Let's see...As for work this week, it has mostly been contacting. We focused on finding people last week & this week we have tried to go back & contact them. Some have been successful & others not so much. It breaks my heart to say, but I think we are going to drop Jenny. She has great potential & certainly recognizes that there is truth in the gospel, but she just isn't ready to change yet. Her husband works all the time, so we haven't even met him. Hopefully some time in the future, the missionaries will contact her again & she will be ready. Also, I think I told you about Marie Nessa. She is the daughter of a member in the branch here. We taught her about the Book of Mormon & the lesson was awesome! She is so great, but like I said in my last letter, I hesitate to baptize her without her husband, so we will just see how things play out these next few weeks if I am still assigned here (transfer call is on Monday, can you believe it!).
I want to tell you about a lesson we had just yesterday. We were contacting a lady that former missionaries had taught & she invited us in. It was just her & we were getting to know each other a little bit. We prayed & right as we were about to start the lesson, I heard a voice from the back room. The voice was quiet & asked who was there. The lady responded that her husband was in the room & that he was unable to walk. I walked back there & found this 60+ year old man laying on a bamboo bed. His hair was long, his body crippled, & his eyes innocent. He proceeded to tell me that he has very bad problems in his stomach & he has a disease in his leg that makes it near impossible for him to walk. We sat down & started to teach him. As we did, tears filled his eyes & he gladly accepted the invitation to be baptized. I am very excited, of course, but I am unsure about what to do because he can't walk. Since he can't walk, he can't come to church & there is no way the he will be able to stand to be baptized. We are going to give him a blessing next time we visit him & hopefully a miracle happens.
Miracles happen everyday. It is truly incredible to witness them.
We have our zone conference tomorrow, so I am excited to go to Dumagete & eat some McDonald's!
Love you guys.
-Elder Staheli
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