Monday, November 24, 2014
November 24, 2014
Hello Everyone :)
Lots of things have happened this week but I feel like I write about this all the time :)
First, time seems so weird to me. Weeks have been meshing together. I have like no sense of time :P Its all just going by way to fast. Things are flying by. I mean this next week is the last week of Nov. :)
Second, I just want to brag. I just picked up my pants that I customized. They are slacks that look like jeans :) They are so comfy :) I wish I could send a picture but I don't trust this internet shop :P Third, :) I just want to share an experience about a girl named J :) She is a neighbor of one of our recent converts. She became interested and we taught her the WOW. We gave her a blessing that she would be able to get rid of some things. That night she had a dream that her brother who died a year ago was with her and he was super, super happy. He gave her a hug and said continue. :) She immediately thought of us and knew that this was the right thing to do !! :) So, she is doing good :)
Other than that, our area is doing ok... We have been trying to find LA's and help them come back. Part of the problem with that is most of the ones that we have found, if they are not out of the country or in Manila, have been less active for 20 or 30 years. Its almost like trying to talk to investigators. Things are going by so fast and I don't want it to.... I love my mission :) I feel like I finally am becoming who I need to be :)
I love you all :)
I love you but I don't miss you too much :) Missionary work is amazing :)
Elder Bigelow
Monday, November 17, 2014
November 17, 2014
Hello everyone :)
This week was amazing. :) We have a new IBD. Her name is sister J :) She is the neighbor of the recent convert that we just baptized. :) So we have been teaching her for like a week and I had an experience that I will never forget. I saw the light inside of her turn on when she recognized that she was feeling the spirit. She said that the feeling was telling her that she needed to continue to listen to us :) I love the spirit :) It's amazing :)
I also had another experience. We had an investigator tell us that Catholics and Mormons were the same. That fired me up and I was full of the spirit. I shared a bunch of things with them in the Bible. I don't know why I said this but I talked about becoming perfect and becoming like Jesus Christ! It stunned them, I could tell that they didn't believe it. I sat at the next personal study thinking about that and read 3 Nephi 12:48 (I think). BE YE PERFECT EVEN AS I AND THE FATHER ARE PERFECT! :) I don't think Jesus Christ was lying :) We can become like him :)
This week was really a testimony builder :)
It was what I needed :)
I love you all :) Thank you for your prayers :)
Love
Elder Bigelow :)
This week was amazing. :) We have a new IBD. Her name is sister J :) She is the neighbor of the recent convert that we just baptized. :) So we have been teaching her for like a week and I had an experience that I will never forget. I saw the light inside of her turn on when she recognized that she was feeling the spirit. She said that the feeling was telling her that she needed to continue to listen to us :) I love the spirit :) It's amazing :)
I also had another experience. We had an investigator tell us that Catholics and Mormons were the same. That fired me up and I was full of the spirit. I shared a bunch of things with them in the Bible. I don't know why I said this but I talked about becoming perfect and becoming like Jesus Christ! It stunned them, I could tell that they didn't believe it. I sat at the next personal study thinking about that and read 3 Nephi 12:48 (I think). BE YE PERFECT EVEN AS I AND THE FATHER ARE PERFECT! :) I don't think Jesus Christ was lying :) We can become like him :)
This week was really a testimony builder :)
It was what I needed :)
I love you all :) Thank you for your prayers :)
Love
Elder Bigelow :)
Monday, November 10, 2014
November 10, 2014
Well Everyone :)
I pretty much had an amazing week :) I worked with all the new missionaries that came in. I met a few kids from AZ. They are way cool :) It was nice to see what I was like back then. If my Tagalog was anything like theirs was, I feel bad for the people that I had to teach :p I also got a new companion :) His name is Elder Dipla :)The smallest missionary in the mission :) He is so cool :) He is from Cavatie. In the picture he is the farthest on the right!
The best news though :) We had 4 baptisms :) Bro R, J, A and C :) My first whole family :) They are so cool :) They have a little 6 year old that reminds me of Braden. He asked if he could get baptized too.... I wish he could have :) It was super spiritual :) The best part about it is that their daughter had died about 3 months ago and now they have hope to being sealed to her :) They really are converted and have hope for being an Eternal Family :) I also thank all the other missionaries that had a part in their life so that I could have the baptisms :)
Things are really looking up :) I am excited :) Thanks for your prayers :)
Elder Bigelow
I pretty much had an amazing week :) I worked with all the new missionaries that came in. I met a few kids from AZ. They are way cool :) It was nice to see what I was like back then. If my Tagalog was anything like theirs was, I feel bad for the people that I had to teach :p I also got a new companion :) His name is Elder Dipla :)The smallest missionary in the mission :) He is so cool :) He is from Cavatie. In the picture he is the farthest on the right!
The best news though :) We had 4 baptisms :) Bro R, J, A and C :) My first whole family :) They are so cool :) They have a little 6 year old that reminds me of Braden. He asked if he could get baptized too.... I wish he could have :) It was super spiritual :) The best part about it is that their daughter had died about 3 months ago and now they have hope to being sealed to her :) They really are converted and have hope for being an Eternal Family :) I also thank all the other missionaries that had a part in their life so that I could have the baptisms :)
Things are really looking up :) I am excited :) Thanks for your prayers :)
Elder Bigelow
This is of my family tree here on the mission :) The one of the very right is my great grandson :)
Monday, November 3, 2014
November 3, 2014
This week I think the biggest change is my studies. I watched a video from Elder Bednar about learning. He said that when we learn we need to understand. Knowledge is good but understanding is better. :) Just letting everyone know I finished the triple cover to cover :) but I was just skimming the surface now I am digging deep. I have been studying Alma 34 about the atonement for 2 days now. Searching for the differences between belief in Christ and faith. Also, how salvation comes and what is the meaning. :)
I got to sit in Lazboy this week :) yeah that doesn't seem like a big thing but it is to me. The very first time in my whole mission. They are so soft. Me and the other American in our house, fixed it up. I have to say it looks sweet. I mean we found a rug in the storage room and we rolled it out. :)
But the very best news :) Next week is the Baptism of my very first whole family :) A father and Mother and 2 children :) I am super stoked and can not wait :) Its the best feeling ever :) Anyway I am out of time.
Please Read your scriptures they are super important to me and I know they will become important in your life :)
Elder Bigelow
I got to sit in Lazboy this week :) yeah that doesn't seem like a big thing but it is to me. The very first time in my whole mission. They are so soft. Me and the other American in our house, fixed it up. I have to say it looks sweet. I mean we found a rug in the storage room and we rolled it out. :)
But the very best news :) Next week is the Baptism of my very first whole family :) A father and Mother and 2 children :) I am super stoked and can not wait :) Its the best feeling ever :) Anyway I am out of time.
Please Read your scriptures they are super important to me and I know they will become important in your life :)
Elder Bigelow
Monday, October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014
How is everyone ?!? I am just going to say that I feel like I am in a bubble, there is no such thing as a world. I am so protected here on the mission and then our mission is out in the middle of nowhere !! :) just thought I would let you know. I have been talking to some of the new Americans and what they are saying is just going right over my head... I am pretty old in the mission too..... so just a random thought there.
This week has been full of different little things happening. We had Zone interviews. I love spending time around President. He is so amazing :) We had a citywide brown out that lasted all day, it was so dark !!! :)
So this week I really don't have anything new that happened with investigators but I really want to share with you something that has changed my life and my mission.
I read a talk by a CES teacher and stake president called the Mortal Christ. In it he said something that we all need to listen to.
We need to know Christ more than we all do now. As members, we can be special witnesses of Jesus Christ but first we need to know him. Really know him not just know about him. One of the ways that we can do that is to do everything that Jesus Christ did which was always being about his Father's business. His Father's Business should be ours which is in Moses 1:39 (to bring to pass the immortality and Eternal life of man). If we want to know Christ and really know him we must do the things that he did. We need to really pray not just pray but PRAY. Talk to him like you would a friend and ask to do his will. That is something that I am really working on. I am going to share an experience that I shared with my Mission President. I have found the being exactly obedient is the only way to go. I chose to break the schedule one day this week, I thought it would be fine to stay up a few extra minutes. What I found actually shocked me! When I choose what I want to do and it is against the rules I lose out on those blessings that Heavenly Father is willing to give me but can not because of my disobedience. Even just a simple act like staying up a little later than 10:30 affected the spirit that I had the next day. I lost the protection that comes from obedience. Through that experience I now have a testimony that I NEED to be exactly obedient in all things.
We need to learn how to please Father! We need to learn how to "court" the spirit in our lives. If we do that we will always be happy :) Just like him I think one of my fears in life is to not have the spirit. I am glad I could share this quick testimony with you :) Please Prepare for a mission :) I love it and I know you will too :)
Love Elder Bigelow
This week has been full of different little things happening. We had Zone interviews. I love spending time around President. He is so amazing :) We had a citywide brown out that lasted all day, it was so dark !!! :)
So this week I really don't have anything new that happened with investigators but I really want to share with you something that has changed my life and my mission.
I read a talk by a CES teacher and stake president called the Mortal Christ. In it he said something that we all need to listen to.
We need to know Christ more than we all do now. As members, we can be special witnesses of Jesus Christ but first we need to know him. Really know him not just know about him. One of the ways that we can do that is to do everything that Jesus Christ did which was always being about his Father's business. His Father's Business should be ours which is in Moses 1:39 (to bring to pass the immortality and Eternal life of man). If we want to know Christ and really know him we must do the things that he did. We need to really pray not just pray but PRAY. Talk to him like you would a friend and ask to do his will. That is something that I am really working on. I am going to share an experience that I shared with my Mission President. I have found the being exactly obedient is the only way to go. I chose to break the schedule one day this week, I thought it would be fine to stay up a few extra minutes. What I found actually shocked me! When I choose what I want to do and it is against the rules I lose out on those blessings that Heavenly Father is willing to give me but can not because of my disobedience. Even just a simple act like staying up a little later than 10:30 affected the spirit that I had the next day. I lost the protection that comes from obedience. Through that experience I now have a testimony that I NEED to be exactly obedient in all things.
We need to learn how to please Father! We need to learn how to "court" the spirit in our lives. If we do that we will always be happy :) Just like him I think one of my fears in life is to not have the spirit. I am glad I could share this quick testimony with you :) Please Prepare for a mission :) I love it and I know you will too :)
Love Elder Bigelow
Monday, October 20, 2014
October 20, 2014
Hi everyone,
I am out of time this week, so its going to be a short letter, hopefully my mommy can put something together :)
Conference was amazing :) and as always, I had a few questions and conference was amazing. :) Its the best 2 things that ever happen in this world in a year :) All of the talks give us ways to improve and ways to become more Christlike :) I love it :) I also think its cool that they have been starting to do different languages. My favorite talk was the one by president Uchdorf, I ask that question to myself many times a day now "Lord, is it I ?" Am I doing everything I can to be a better disciple of Christ :) I also like the focus on the Power Of Prayer :) I have no idea what I would do with my life without the power of prayer. :)
My area is doing great. We have been working hard to work with the members here. They are amazing. Our baptisms got pushed back because of some word of wisdom problems that were hidden :) So I am sad but at the same time it is going to give them more time to be repentant and really understand the importance of Baptism. :)
I really don't have to much to talk about sorry pretty lame yung letter ko.
I love you all :) I really do :)
Elder Bigelow
I am out of time this week, so its going to be a short letter, hopefully my mommy can put something together :)
Conference was amazing :) and as always, I had a few questions and conference was amazing. :) Its the best 2 things that ever happen in this world in a year :) All of the talks give us ways to improve and ways to become more Christlike :) I love it :) I also think its cool that they have been starting to do different languages. My favorite talk was the one by president Uchdorf, I ask that question to myself many times a day now "Lord, is it I ?" Am I doing everything I can to be a better disciple of Christ :) I also like the focus on the Power Of Prayer :) I have no idea what I would do with my life without the power of prayer. :)
My area is doing great. We have been working hard to work with the members here. They are amazing. Our baptisms got pushed back because of some word of wisdom problems that were hidden :) So I am sad but at the same time it is going to give them more time to be repentant and really understand the importance of Baptism. :)
I really don't have to much to talk about sorry pretty lame yung letter ko.
I love you all :) I really do :)
Elder Bigelow
Monday, October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014
How was conference?
Well as always, I had a few questions and conference was amazing. :) Its the best 2 things that ever happen in this world in a year :) All of the talks give us ways to improve and ways to become more Christlike :) I love it :) I also think its cool that they have been starting to do different languages. My favorite talk was the one by president Uchdorf, I ask that question to myself many times a day now "Lord, is it I?" Am I doing everything I can to be a better disciple of Christ :) I also like the focus on the Power Of Prayer :) I have no idea what I would do with my life without the power of prayer. :)
How are things going in your area?
Our area is going ok. Pretty tough but I know i can do it !!! :) We found a family this week :) I am so excited to teach them.:) We have been working hard with the members here. They are amazing. Our baptims got pushed back. I am sad but at the same time not. It is going to give them more time to really understand the importance of Baptism. :)
How about money?
I am doing ok..... still using personal............... its hard not to when you have so many resturants around.
How is your language?
I still am having a hard time, but not as much as before. I am still struggling.
I really dont have to much to talk about sorry pretty lame yung letter ko.
I love you all :) I really do :)
Elder Bigelow
Well as always, I had a few questions and conference was amazing. :) Its the best 2 things that ever happen in this world in a year :) All of the talks give us ways to improve and ways to become more Christlike :) I love it :) I also think its cool that they have been starting to do different languages. My favorite talk was the one by president Uchdorf, I ask that question to myself many times a day now "Lord, is it I?" Am I doing everything I can to be a better disciple of Christ :) I also like the focus on the Power Of Prayer :) I have no idea what I would do with my life without the power of prayer. :)
How are things going in your area?
Our area is going ok. Pretty tough but I know i can do it !!! :) We found a family this week :) I am so excited to teach them.:) We have been working hard with the members here. They are amazing. Our baptims got pushed back. I am sad but at the same time not. It is going to give them more time to really understand the importance of Baptism. :)
How about money?
I am doing ok..... still using personal............... its hard not to when you have so many resturants around.
How is your language?
I still am having a hard time, but not as much as before. I am still struggling.
I really dont have to much to talk about sorry pretty lame yung letter ko.
I love you all :) I really do :)
Elder Bigelow
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