My 16th Sunday in the Field!

Hello All! How was your week? Where did the time go? It's Monday again!!!

TIME flies by sooo FAST! 16 Sundays in the field?! How's that?! But, I'm not sending you an email about Time. 

I am sending you an email about the highlights of my Week...

1st things 1st, Last week, I realized the Importance of Money.

Why? As Missionaries, It's really hard to budget money here. Really Hard!

Because My Companion and Our housemates, got broke. We used my savings just to support us for our daily needs.

My Trainer taught me how to use my money wisely, It really helped me.

Miracles are happening in our area. We taught one of our Investigator, He's 17, and He wears earrings and Last Monday we taught him about the Law of Chastity. The Lesson went well. And we were prompted to be bold and asked him if he could take his earrings off from his ears. And he didn't even hesitate to take it off. The Gospel really touches the hearts of the Children of God. He then committed to live the Law of Chastity. And Days past by, Every time I saw him it just make me smile seeing him living the Law of Chastity.

And also One of our Recent Convert, She confessed something to us.

She said that after her baptism, Trials and Persecutions came often. Last Friday We taught her The Plan of Salvation. We asked her to give the Closing Prayer. The Spirit was really strong, She was shedding in tears while asking  for the strength and the guidance of our Father in Heaven. I didn't even notice myself crying while listening to her Prayer. I can't help myself when it comes to this kind of situation but to Cry. Before we leave her house She asked us to Pray for her and her Family. Which I really did. I know that Heavenly Father has a reason why It's happening to them. I am a convert and I also experienced the things that she's been facing right now And As a Missionary I'm still facing Problems like that. But I am happy and Lucky that I am still here standing strong and holding fast to the Rod.

Our Work last week was really Awesome. We also contacted the Referral of the Wife of the 2nd Counselor of our District's Presidency. They're a Family. And they're so nice! We were able to set a Baptism Goal Date to them on April 18th. I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't come to Church yesterday. My Companion's really nice. He is very humble. And We laugh a lot. I can feel that our Unity grew stronger and stronger.

Well, Maybe that's all for today.

Read Doctrine and Covenants 98:1

Verily I say unto you my friends, fear not, let your hearts be comforted; yea, rejoice evermore, and in everything give thanks;

Don't forget to give Thanks!

*Me And My Elder Green (Nerd Mode Activated)

*Bongabon District 2 (with Glasses)

*Brgy. Pesa Sunset & Sunrise

*Me & Elder Green inside the Trike

*Our Electricity Bill (My Birth Year was 1996)

*Lunch Appointment @ Sister Morales

*I Cooked a lot of Spaghetti! (My Favorite Food) wearing Our Filipino American Hats

*Elder Green cooked Chicken Curry! The Most Spicy dish I ever had!!!

*Yummy Ice Cream!

I Love You All!

ELDER ORDEJAN

Philippines Angeles Mission

12 Weeks Done! GOODBYE ELDER ARMATAGE! HELLO ELDER GREEN!

HELLO ALL! How was your Week?

Mine was Really AWESOME! Last Thursday I said My Last Goodbye to my Trainer/Tatay Elder Armatage... Sad, But I can't stop it. He got transferred to Sta. Ignacia Tarlac! It's in the other side of Our Mission. What's Crazy was He's Training again!!! HAHAHAHA! We really thought that I'm gonna be His Bunso (Last Missionary to train for the rest of his Mission). Because He's going home on June 3, 2015. I am so EXCITED to know if who's his companion. :) I Miss my Trainer/Tatay so much.

But, in the BRIGHT SIDE, YEAH! I'm staying in BONGABON!!!

And My New Companion is ELDER GREEN, He's 19 years old, He's from Nampa, Idaho.

He's 15 months old in the Mission, He's SUPER NICE! He's OBEDIENT, He's Fluent in Tagalog (But not as Fluent as my Trainer/Tatay)

He's really Good in Teaching! He's a JOKER!

He knows how to cook Filipino Food! He's TALLER than ME!

He's our District Leader, And He's really AWESOME!

Well, It's a BIG ADJUSTMENT again. And there are things that I used to do with my Tarainer/Tatay that I cannot do anymore with My Follow Up Trainer/Nanay. Yes! We call our Follow Up Trainers Nanay! Hahahaha! Sounds Funny right! Now I know Why Mission is FUN! And now, I can tell that I improved a lot, especially in Leading the Lessons, OYM's, and etc. At first I struggled in leading our Area, One Night a Member named Ryan Catacutan texted us and He's asking for a Blessing (He's Sick). I replied Yes, We can give you a blessing. After teaching one of our recent converts, I stopped and thought, (OH NO! Where's his house again???) We got lost walking in some random streets. But Luckily we Found their House and We were able to give him a Blessing. :)

Our Recent Converts and some of our Investigators missed Elder Armatage.

But I told them to Move On & Be Happy! & they did! :)

Brother Reynaldo & Sister Leonila Pesa was confirmed as members of the Church Yesterday. Me & My Follow Up Trainer/Nanay confirmed them. They were so HAPPY!

The Spirit was really strong while we gave them the blessing. They're very grateful for us for helping them receive the Restored Gospel in their lives.

I guess you never know what's going to come at you in life, But I know that there is good that can come from anything, And it depends on how you react to it, As long as you strive to be like Him, You'll Be the Person that God wants you to Be! Not just Good things will come, But the Best things in Life. Just Like Pres. Thomas S. Monson said:

"Decisions are constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed." 

ALWAYS REMEMBER to be HAPPY and BE WHO YOU ARE!

Remember! Decisions are IMPORTANT!

Jacob 6:12

O be wise; what can I say more?

I LOVE YOU ALL!

Please don't forget to keep in touch with me!!! :)

MY 7th BAPTISM! and Transfer Day on March 12!!!

Hello All!

What's Up??? So, I am just gonna email you short today, I'm just gonna share the highlight of our week. We had 50 OYM's!!! and Sister Leonila Pesa and Brother Reynaldo Pesa got BAPTIZED last Sunday (Mar. 8) AWESOME!!! Me and My Trainer/Tatay Baptized them.

That will be our last Baptism together, because there's 99% SURE that my Trainer/Tatay will transfer this coming Thursday!!! Man! I am still surprised that our Training's already done!!! :(

I am not really ready for this coming Transfer. I confessed it to my Trainer/Tatay, I asked him if he could ask our Mission President to stay. But He said President will never grant requests like that... I Love My Trainer/Tatay so much! He's AWESOME! I've learned lots of things from him! He trained me really well. Even if sometimes we had communication problems, I'm still grateful for his effort of changing me and helping me grow! I will miss him. But no matter what happens I'm just gonna do my very BEST to lead. I am excited to know if who will be my Follow Up Trainer. :)

Maybe that's all for today!!!

To my Family and Friends, Please help me pray for a nice Companion!!!

I miss you guys so much! Please don't forget to keep in touch!!!

Always remember,  MAHAL NA MAHAL KO KAYO!

Please don't forget to read the SCRIPTURES!!! It will help you a lot!!!

Wait..... Today, We had a Zone Activity in Dinggalan!

We went to the BEACH!!! It was so FUN, even if we're under the heat of the SUN!

Love:

ELDER ORDEJAN

*Baptism Pictures of Sis. Leonila and Reynaldo Pesa

*Dinner @ the Pesa's

*Zone Activity (Dinggalan Beach, Mar. 9, 2015,)

FEAR, PRIDE, and CHANGE

Hello to Everyone!!!

How's your week??? Well, as part of our 12 week Program (for Trainer & Trainees)

It's my responsibility to lead our Area, The Lessons, and everything. Because we're on our 11th week. And I am doing this until our training ends (Ends on March 12 *Transfer Day) It's so STRESSFUL! And I realize that I really still need the help of my Trainer/Tatay. Often Times, in so much stress, I just broke down and CRY... My Trainer/Tatay said, CRYING is not a sign of weakness, It's a way of getting EMOTIONS out. I asked him if he could give me a Priesthood Blessing, & He did. That was really a wonderful blessing. Often times life will spin you in directions you didn't expect. "BE HAPPY" an easy words to say, But I am not a good example of this. And I am trying to do better because I know that HAPPINESS is a CHOICE! I can't control my Life, But I can control how I react to it. And I realize that in all life's aspect I should always FIND the JOY in it.

Fear, Last Week, I experienced the Word Fear, Why? It's because, since I got here, I always hear Negative things about My Trainer/Tatay from Missionaries and Members. And I'm tired it. I really want to defend him. But I don't have that courage to do so. My Obedience was measured when We had an exchanges with the Missionaries in our District. I worked in their area. And I discovered some inappropriate stuff that they should not be doing. But What I did was I just followed all the things that the Missionary did. I didn't told those things to my Tatay after our Exchanges.I feel bad about it, and A day later, I confessed all those things to my Tatay. He's kinda Disappointed to me. But I told him that I really want to be like him. As Obedient as I could. It came to the point that after our District Meeting Last Wednesday (I gave my 1st Workshop! It went really well!).  

We had our District Inventory, and My Trainer/Tatay opened all those things to them. Everything went well. and Now, there's no Secrets anymore in our District. I just wanna be Obedient to all the Rules.

Pride, I admit that sometimes, I'm PRIDEFUL. And I don't really like it! ?This is the one reason why Me and my Trainer/Tatay had problems. And I wanna change it because I want to cherish our time together, because we don't know if one of us is going to transfer this coming transfer... We both committed to enjoy our time together. 

Earlier this morning in my personal study, I read the Talk of Pres. Ezra Taft Benson about "Beware of Pride"

I really like the things that He said, He said that "The Proud are Easily offended, which is really true, sometimes I really feel that way.

"The Proud do not receive counsel or correction easily. Defensiveness is used by them to justify & rationalize their frailties & failures." I also feel that way.

"Pride adversaly affects all our relationships!" This is really True!

"UNITY is IMPOSSIBLE for a PROUD PEOPLE., & unless we are one we are not in the Lord's. Pride affects all of us at various times, and in various degrees

The antidote of PRIDE is HUMILITY, MEEKNESS, & SUBMISSIVENESS.

It is the broken heart and contrite spirit. We can choose to humble ourselves by RECEIVING COUNSEL & CHASTISEMENT. We can choose to HUMBLE ourselves by FORGIVING those who have offended me." I really like it so much. I am a Prideful Person, But I really want to change! I really Do!

I Love my Trainer/Tatay so much. And I'm really going to miss his Ideas, Suggestions and Everything. 

Anyways, We have an Upcoming Baptism this Friday (March 6, 2015)!

Names are Leonila and Reynaldo Pesa! They have 3 kids, and they're in Dubai (working) We are so EXCITED!!! 

I am not going to send Pictures today. But I just want you to know That MAHAL na MAHAL ko Kayo! Always take  good care of yourselves!

Love: 

ELDER ORDEJAN

Philippines Angeles Missio