Dear Family and Friends,
This past week has been another great one in Cabanatuan! Lot's of good things are happening here in Cabanatuan. In this month of January we have had 29 less active members return back to activity here in our zone. That means that the member has attended 4 consecutive sacrament meetings. Its awesome to see that our rescue efforts here are effective! This next month we have a goal of 38 members who have returned to activity. We are establishing the church here in Cabanatuan.
This past week we had interviews with President Martino. Interviews were awesome. I love talking with President Martino. He is such an amazing man. He is so full of spiritual power. He has taught me so much about leadership and about becoming a disciple of Christ. Whenever we have interviews, the zone leaders give a workshop so Elder Casilac and I were able to give a workshop. We thought about and talked about what we were going to teach for days but we weren't getting any inspiration. I decided to fast to know what to teach to our zone. I expected to receive some serious revelation in our companionship study but still nothing really came. I kept fasting and during our nightly planning session hours at about 9:15 pm the revelation came. It was like a lightbulb switched on. It's amazing how the Holy Ghost works. We ended up teaching a workshop about how to help our investigators attend church through effective planning and working through members but we put some twists on it that we had never thought about before. Yesterday we had more investigators attend sacrament meeting in the zone than I have seen in my three transfers here. I know that the Lord helped us know what to teach for our workshop. This experience taught me the importance of fasting, prayer, and waiting for the Lord's help. The Lord will always give us the help we need but sometimes we need to wait and be patient. While we wait we need to be diligent in striving to do our best, be obedient and show our faith to the Lord.
Things are still going well with our investigators and less actives. Vivian and Brian are still coming to church and are keeping all of their commitments. It's been a joy to teach them because they are so excited about everything! Teaching investigators like that is somethings every missionary wants. This week we have continued using our music in our teaching and have seen the powerful way it brings the spirit. Whenever we teach less-active members we sing an opening hymn. We have found that many less-active members have their own hymnbooks and a favorite hymn they want to sing. Music is something that can really united us. Hymns bring the spirit and memories of the joys of the Gospel. We all need to sing hymns more in our lives.
As far as the pictures go, the first is of Elder Casilac and I with our new zone jerseys. Let's be honest, they are pretty sharp! The next two are of our p-day activity last week. The sister of our branch clerk works at the Golf course in Cab. so we went to the Driving range as a district. I was the only one who had golfed before so I ended up giving a little golf lesson (Even though I'm not that good..) It was so much fun! We weren't that good but we had a great time. From what I saw the golf course was beautiful! The last picture is of a Filipino bathroom. That's the bathroom in the new appartment for a couple of Elders in the zone. That's actually a pretty nice bathroom! If you notice there is no shower, but that is because there is a faucet on the wall which you use to fill up a big bucket to use for bucket showers. You have to love the bucket showers.
Well I love being a missionary! I love these wonderful people here. I feel so blessed the be a missionary and I couldn't be happier to be here.
Fight the Good Fight of Faith!
Love Elder Leishman
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