April 23, 2012

silly scripture of the week is 1 nephi 2:15

well this transfer has gone by very quickly. nothing has really happened this week as well. we did have another zone conference, the last zone conference with president tobias. it was kinda sad but everyone leaves sometime. i'll eventually leave sometime as well. as a matter of fact, i am now 2/3 the way done with my mission. yay me.

one thing that i've noticed is that there is a difference between a baptism and a convert. a baptism just gets baptized and then slowly leaves. whereas a convert will stay and eventually progress towards the temple. i wonder how many baptisms i have and how many converts... it makes me wonder, especially considering the 85% inactivity rate.

i'd also like to again point out my surprise at how some people were actually baptized and then went inactive but then became very active in a different church, namely building their own church or becoming a pastor or teacher. it makes the inactive work very frustrating.

i also saw a funny poster outside of a church the other day. it said condemn injustice, fight terrorism, suppress poverty. but the bill that they were against was the RH bill which has to do with birth control and abortions. i know that they are against all of that but the statements posted there were complete and utter falsifications openly and shamelessly aimed at a certain bill. i will not openly choose sides on the bill but i will denounce the churches baseless and flagrant lies which not only show that the members in the church are spreading false information but that the church itself condones it and supports it. thereby showing their complete disregard for truth.

on to a different church, i would like to point out that the most evil and annoying church members that i've encountered are not 7th day adventists or Jehovah witnesses or even catholics or baptists. the most abominable church that i've encountered is iglesia ni cristo. they don't even believe in Jesus Christ and yet they persecute all other Christian religions and members of other religions for not being one of them. they base their religion solely on the hate of every other Christian religion. i know because i've read their magazines. i haven't had to bible bash with one of them but i am looking forward to the opportunity.

this week, i lost one of my old planners. i'm not sure but i think i left it in himamaylan. i know it sounds like nothing but to a missionary, your old planners are like the biggest source of remembrance that you can have and to lose one would be a big deal. for any future missionaries, be sure to take good care of your planners when you are on your mission.

some things that i like the taste of are:
black sambo - some sort of cream/cake mixture that has coffee in it (i didn't know)
lecheflan- flan with leche (milk)

and that's about it.