ZONE CONFERENCE!!!!

this week was really really fast!! we  had interviews thursday then zone conference on friday! it was really cool and now i am going to try to improve my teaching skills. we talked a lot about that at zone conference. also i was thinking about how Christ's apostles were fishermen and then they became fishers of men so they used what they loved doing to help build the kingdom of god maybe kind of? so ive been thinking of that a week. 

      then we helped a member in our ward get engaged so that was crazy!! it was kind of awkward but now they are getting married! then i went on splits to mabini and that was super fun too. a really cool thing that happened this week is that we were able to give a blessing to a man who had been bedridden and unable to eat for two weeks because of his tuberculosis! we havent really been able to teach him in a while but we can still go check on him. he looks like a skeleton! but we checked on him two days later and he was out of bed and said he had eaten a little!!! god has real power! it is amazing he just wants to help us. also we've seen the help that our ward has been able to give him and his family its almost like a city of zion! bringing rice and medicine for his family! i love you all! i know that the church is true and i know that the organizations the church has are from God and that through them we can progress tons!!!. palangga tika halung mo!!!

cacao!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this week a member gave us a bunch of cacao to eat so we took it home and dried it out then ground it into cacao powder!! so we will make brownies!! hopefully. this week did a lot of good missionary stuff and talked to lots of people it was good. we went to a village called salamanca and it was really cool! missionaries hadnt been there in forever!!!  we also found a different village on a hill and it was funny because we walked in and this man came to greet us and he started offering people to us to teach? and it reminded me of ammon being greeted by chief lamoni. we had 3 more baptisms this week!! it was awesome because ive been able to see these peoples whole path and their conversion!! it was really cooool! 

      THis week I saw a real life radshach meshach and abednego story!!! this Sunday was santo nino so everyone skips church to worship this doll. and it got crazier than christmas here! we saw a bunch of people walking around like zombies and the cops showed up! but anyways the teachers here made attending this idolatrous parade a graded assignment!! that's crazy to me!! it was just like king nebuchadnezzar "when the music plays worship my golden image!!" and so the girl named queen that we baptised on Saturday chose to go to church and receive the gift of the holy ghost rather than worship a statue!! we were so proud of her. 

     then we had a moses moment when we came down from the stairs after sacrament and saw half the congregation going straight out to the party outside.

anyways it was a pretty good week really i love you all!! the church is true! adios

trials and blessings

we were walking through a FIELD OF FIRE!!!! 

this week was crazy!! i got sick!! its just like a cold but its is pretty annoying and it makes it difficult for people to understand me cause my voice is weird. but thats okay.

      this week i was also pretty much a trainer! my companion had to travel to cebu for a district leader meeting. so i was left by myself with the  other district leaders companion who is in training. it was pretty crazy because i had to lead everything and teach pretty much the whole lessons. it  was awesome it helped me to see how much i have grown and learned! it also helped me respect my companion because training is hard. and after 3 transfers together we have got the lessons like down we have like super comp unity but with a new companion it was a little more awkward in the lessons.so the lord definetely provides for his servants cause we made it through three days! the gift of tongues is real!!!

  i was only with my companion 3 days this week because i went on splits again yesterday! it was really fun i went to stop aguinaldo its the area that is kind of in the middle of nowhere and no americans are allowed to be assigned there because its dangerous. but its pretty safe really. i like it there and i got to paglubo there. lubo is when you take the dry kernels off the corn cob it was fun i am like a master luboer.

i love you all! and i will eat some mangos soon!! halong!

i hugged the nicest cow in the Philippines.

this was a pretty good week we got fed a lot and given way too much coke.  one morning we went out and there was a cow along the path that was just relaxing and so we started petting her and she rolled over like a dog so we could scratch her belly!! it was crazy! when we started walking away it got up to follow us so i gave him a hug goodbye.   

    we still are having lots of people to teach and this week we really focussed on the atonement of jesus christ. it is the most important part of everything!! but lots of people here dont really understand or know much about it!! but that has been really good. 

     we went bushwhacking a couple times this week to take shortcuts! and that was super exciting  also we saw a guys skull!! he fell off a power line and the skin on top of his head was gone! it was really crazy.   the church is true i love you all bye bye!! 

    

Bagong tuig!!!

This week was crazy!!!!! And now its 2020!? Wow it was a pretty normal week except a lot of people were too busy with celebrations to listen to us. But its not all bad cause everyone wants us to eat food with them! I have had 5 coconut macaroni fruit salads in the past two days. And im sick of them.

     This last friday while we were buying bread for lunch a lady told us that an inactive member had killed himself out on the beach. And we were like oh my goodness what do we do!? We are just two really awkward americans how can we help!? We went looking for his younger brother who we are pretty amigo with and  the whole time we were looking for him i was  praying that we could help in someway and know what to say. I was worried that we were about to walk into a super sensative situation, but i felt that we were going to be okay. When we found him at his house we walked in and his dead brother was sitting on the couch next to him!! And we shared a good lesson about alma 40 and I realized the most important thing was for him to know that we cared about him and were there to help. 

     Another miracle that happened this week was when we were riding home from a far part of our area. We were squashed in this tiny tricycle thing and i can barely fit in alone because my long legs. I was so jammed in there i couldnt move and then i felt a charlie horse coming!!!!! And so i said one of the most sincere prayers ever asking that it wouldnt arrive cause if it did i wouldnt be able to make it better. And when i finished my prayer the feeling went away i didnt die! So if anyone says that god doesnt do miracle in our day they are crazy! Miracle come if we have faith that God is there if there are no miracles its because they dont believe God can do the miracles!#mormon9:20

      It is crazy how important mental strength is, even in the gospel. So stay strong!!

I love you all bye bye!!