I've had a really interesting week here in Guisad. Sometimes it felt super interesting and productive. Other times it felt really slow and frustrating. Every week has it ups and downs, but maybe this week felt more that way than a lot of others. At any rate, good things happened, progress was made, and I'm hopeful that the coming week(s) will be just a tad bit smoother (wishful thinking, right? :P).
Last Monday after emailing we visited the huge park in Baguio city- Burnham. You can sort of think of it Baguio's version of New York's Central Park. We had a McDonald's picnic, bought some funky souvenirs, got confronted by a homeless lady who had previously stolen a missionary's bag and went quadricycling (like bicycling except with four wheels...sort of like man powered four wheeling). We actually did quite a bit of finding/talking to people while we were on the quadricycles, so I suppose it was worth the time. Some of them actually texted us back after we gave them pass-along cards. :)
Then Elder Torsak started getting pretty sick, and ended up not being able to work Monday night and all of Tuesday. This meant I spent a lot of time studying, cleaning the apartment and watching all of the Church videos available to me. I did greatly enjoy getting to study in the Book of Ether about the Brother of Jared being blessed through his faith and whole-hearted prayer to have his language preserved, be guided through the wilderness and ultimately see Jesus Christ Himself. All of these incredible experiences and blessings were wrought through faith and sincerity of heart, which things I desire to see in myself.
I really want to make a difference in the lives of the people I'm teaching, and my testimony is growing that through my faith unto diligence and heartfelt prayers, God will grant me the things I am asking for. They are good things, so I believe that God is, in His own way, granting them unto me. Even if I don't always see all the effects.
Elder Torsak and I also had to travel to San Fernando for Elder Torsak's "follow-up training." This involved a review of how each companionship from Elder Torsak's batch was doing and a training on how better to teach the message of the Restoration. It was a good training...though I think I kind of derailed the teaching practice we were supposed to do. The Assistants to the President started giving us and example of how to apply the things they were teaching us and I, role-playing an investigator, started asking them semi-deep questions that I was honestly curious about. This lead to President Bangal stopping the whole practice to hunt down scriptural answers to my question, and we ended up running out of time before any of the trainees could do the role-play themselves. Whoops. :P
Love you all so much, and please take care of yourselves!
Love, Elder Dickison
Pictures/Video!
1) Our zone went Canadian bowling together this P-day! Not as tasty as Canadian bacon, but a good time nonetheless!
2) We found a giant party hat in Burnham Park! (Or maybe a Christmas tree? Still not sure...)
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