Thanksgiving week was awesome eve though they dont celebrate it here in the Philippines. First off it started off with an awesome FHE with a recent convert family here in the branch and then on Tuesday was me and the day Elder Yingling have been waiting for 10 months. Exchanges!
So on Tuesday me and one of my MTC comps did exchanges Elder Yingling! It was so awesome. Lets just say there has been so much improvement since the MTC haha. We had some really cool experiences when we worked. We ran into a girl in the street who was talking to us about how the past missionaries there taught her. So we asked if we could teach her. So she took us back to her house and their family was there. And we were able to teach the family about the Restoration and it turned out the Dad was a less active of 30 years. But it was surprising because he remembered alot about the restoration. So it was awesome. And the daughter went to church the next sunday! And then we went on an adventure after that. We went hiking up a mountain to see if there were any houses up there. And it eventually lead to the beach and there was a couple houses there. So we found the beach and we saw this fisherman working. So we were just taking pictures of the beach and then we ended up talking to the Fisherman and it turned out he was interested in the gospel! We set a return appointment and they went and taught him and he went to church! Crazy how the Lord led us there. Lets just say it was an awesome time! It wouldve been better if we worked in my area but oh well. Next time. Haha it was an awesome time. Super good to catch up with Elder Yingling! It was such a good time!
Other than that we had an awesome week. We killed a live chicken and cooked it up for Elder Jones' birthday. And our investigators were doing great this week! It was a super fun week. Were getting ready for the baptism of Revelyn and Alexia this Saturday. In matter of fact.. Revelyn not even a member yet in the church, gave the opening prayer in sacrament this Sunday! And they sang in the young women's choir and Revelyn gave a solo at the beginning. So what in the world haha. They are so awesome. And they're super excited for this Saturday! We had an awesome lesson with them teaching them about baptism and we all felt the spirit so strong when we talked about what was going to happen to them on Saturday and how they are going to be baptized. So it was awesome.
Then on thanksgiving day our senior couples gave us some canned goods and stuff from America for Thanksgiving. So we cooked that up for us and our Filipino housemates and it tasted like home. It was awesome. Our kabahays really liked it too.
But it was an awesome week!
One more story! So we have an investigator who's sister is a less active. And we haven't been able to teach her this week because she has been out of town. But their mom has been having health problems. And the less active told her mom that we could give her a blessing of healing. And that's what she did she asked us missionaries to give her a blessing. And we gave her a blessing and it went good. We just told her by her faith she could be healed if she really believed. The crazy thing is she inst even a member of our church. But her heart is slowly opening up to the gospel. So what a blessing! We hope she starts investigating the church!
Have a good week all of you! Have faith in Christ and he will guide your paths! Go team!
We had mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing and chicken... and i did the filipino thing to add some rice haha.
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