3-28-2011

Magandang gabi sa inyo. una sa lahat. napakasaya ang linggo namin dito sa Bulihan. We had some way good experience's with find with a purpose. Like I shared last week we are focusing on the members and less-actives. Our focus is 1st Referrals, 2nd unbaptized members, 3rd 1yr recent converts, 4th members, 5th less-active, 6th Tracting. We are using these things to use time more wisely. Our mission president said "if we are knocking on doors you are wasting time". We are cleaning the membership directory. We are contacting all of the less active and making sure that they still live there. If they moved we make a note and report it to the Branch. We did this last week and had great success. We found 3 families who have children that can be baptized. We returning to them this week. One of those families we visited said they changed religions. The nanay and the daughters were really nice and said nothing to us. We went back sunday and the tatay told us that they changed religions and they are happy there. That really hit and hurt. We only worked on 1 really small part of the area (Phases 1 and 6). We also had 2 baptisms this last saturday. The Encinas Family. Sister Marjorie Panes will be next week and in April the 2 Encinas kids. Also we are working on those less actives to return to church and have those kids baptized. The Branch is starting to look alot better. They are trying hard to reactivate and they are really grateful for what we are doing to help the Branch. Something that I realized is that the life of a member is so different than the life of others. When they are converted they have to adapt to the new life (traditions, language, etc.). For them to do that alone is to hard. That is why WE fellowship. So they have someone to turn to when they need help. If there is no one there to turn to they fall way and become less-active. Members, new converts need 3 things......Friend, Calling, and nourishment by the good word of God. If they have that they or we will experience true conversion. Conversion on the other hand doesn't happen right away. It is a life long process!!! Well I enjoy this work and know it is true. Love you all. Until next week take care.

Elder Cobbley