Hello Family:) so I am glad coop dawg is playing Rugby, he will like that a lot better for sure and it makes sense.
I am super happy right now as for missionary work
because everything here is really just starting to fall together and the
Lord is blessing us so much. The pictures of the family are so good and
I love seeing pictures of everybody, everyone
looks so big and old now it is kinda weird. Like the pictures of the
cousins kinda trip me out to be honest but i love the picture of nik nak
and Chelsie:) they both are so beautiful and i love them so much. Here
in the philippines is is a big deal to respect
your older siblings and honestly my respect and love for all my
siblings and just family in general has grown so much since i have been
in the Philippines. I wish that i could serve a mission for like 3 years
and not just 2. two years is not long enough and
it goes by so fast and I just want to be an outstanding missionary in
teaching and just in everything and i know that 2 years just isnt enough
time hahahaha i just have so much still to learn and I love being a
missionary. For example, I get the chance to
plan for these investigators in my studies and just have all my studies
be specifically for my investigators and i think about what they need
to understand and what they need to do and then i make a lesson plan
with them and think about what questions i could
ask and how i want to use this scripture to help this person and then
in companionship study we talk about the lesson plans we have made
because he plans for half and i plan for half and then we talk about how
we really want to do this lesson and we come up
with this amazing lesson plan for this investigator and then we go to
work and we teach that person that we pray for and plan for and we just
feel this crazy amount of love for this one person and we feel the
spirit and we give the message and we commit them
to whatever and then they just cant wait for us to come back and it
just is amazing. This last sunday 3 of our investigators got interviewed
for baptism and they all passed, so we are going to have 3 baptisms on Saturday and we cant wait.
One of the 3 is the lady that hadnt been visited by
missionaries for 8 years but before her husband died he said that she
should not join any church except mormons and then she had never been
visited for 8 years! until us:) I met her with
Elder T and we just fell in love with this lady, she seriously is
the most amazing lady i have ever met and she is so flippin funny and so
kind. She has had a lot of issues but we have solved all her problems
with the help of the Lord of course and now
she will be baptised on Saturday
and she asked me to baptize her and I seriously cant wait because i
love this Nanay so much!!! we are going to teach her later so i am
excited.
Coop:) happy birthday big boy i love you:) guess
whos birthday it is too! its elder V my companions birthday haha
they have the same birthday so i celebrated coops bday too but just for
my companion haha. Me and ELder V are way
close now and we finally fell in love with each other and now there
just is no wrong haha it is just like living with a brother which is
super good.
I have a great story that really strengthened my
testimony of priesthood power. so we have this recent convert and her
name is ____ and she is 15 years old and she is probably one of the
most humble girls i have met and she is so kind
and super active in the church and cant wait to go on a mission.
Anyways, she has this disease that she faints randomly and will have
seizures and then when she wakes up she wont know her name or really
anything but she faints about once a week and then she
just randomly seizures. ya can you imagine having a problem like that
every week? Anyways I have never had the chance to give her a blessing
but other missionaries have and members have before and it always helps
her feel better for sure. But, about 4 weeks
ago she had a pretty bad seizure and she fainted as well and she woke
up was very very confused and she couldnt really speak but this was the
first time i was around when she had fainted and i was the closest
priesthood holder around, well me and ELder V
but anyways she needed a blessing and her brother who is 14 said, hey
will you give her a blessing and so we did and Elder V anointed her
with oil and I gave the blessing and in the blessing i felt a big
prompting to tell her that she will not faint again
and that she will not have a seizure again and that she will be healed
but i didnt listen and then i felt it again and i didnt say it still and
then i felt it again and then i said it and told her that she will be
healed and she will not faint or seizure again
as long as she stays obedient to Gods commandments, she will not ever
have this problem again. Well after the blessing she smiled and i didnt
think much of it but i saw her and talked to her yesterday and I asked
her how she was doing and she told me she hadnt
fainted or seizured since i gave her a blessing and also she said that
her body and mind feel different that it has ever felt before and she
said that she feels healed......... She has been having the faints and
seizures for about 10 years now and now she
says that she is healed. The priesthood is real and I know that if the
priesthood Holder is worthy to use the power of God, then he can heal
people. The power of God is real and we are so blessed to have the
priesthood restored back on the earth today.
Also one more comment/story. we had a earthquake in
the house the other day it was super cool, the whole house shook for
about 15 seconds but then it stopped but it was the first time i had
really felt an earthquake, it was cool.
Anyways i love you all and i just want to testify
to you all that I know i am in the right place in my life right now and i
love this Gospel because it blessed families:)
HAppy days all is well:)
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