June 16, 2013

So anyways this week was good. We spent a lot of time trying to improve this area. We set out looking for new investigators and we found some. We also finally got to talk with the bishop and he seems excited to help us with the work. We saw a miracle in this ward yesterday. My first Sunday not even half of the sacrament hall was filled. Than yesterday the whole thing was packed. I wondered what it could be, and I remembered that last week they had a home teaching caravan and everyone did there home teaching. I have a new found testimony about Home Teaching. It is obvious to me that the work for member retention is not for the missionaries. We simply do not have the time to do that. If Home Teaching is done, we can clearly see that people will feel that love and charity. How amazing is that! Anyways there is a lot of good things coming for us this week. But this week, we had some really good news. We have an investigator who is living with a member. Getting married in the Philippines is not really something people like to do because it is illegal to get divorced and so yeah ... it is like a "trap" to some. She has been taking the lessons and she wants to be baptized. Well to be baptized they have to get married, and so yesterday! Yeah they got married!!! It is awesome!! I would send more pictures,but the computer is slow! We are so excited for them, they can now be baptized in the coming weeks! So I am excited for that! Also we are out finding a ton of new people haha. Funny story for the week.So I street contacted this guy and we gave him some pamphlets and stuff earlier this week. We asked if we could go back and they said it was OK. So we went back to teach yesterday and when we got there, only a 15 year old we talked to was there. He set up some chairs than some lady who was like way excited and said, "YEAH Mormons right? I've listened to the missionaries before. They things you teach are great everyone come sit and listen." Haha Than we had like 9 people just gathered around us as we taught... there were little children sitting and listening to us and the some guys and girls in the back standing and listening... felt like Jesus for a second not gonna lie. Than when we finished we found out one of the guys we taught who standing in the back was a inactive member. We were wondering why? He spoke of the church so kindly but ... than his gay partner came out to say hi to us... awkward! Than the lady asked us if we had girlfriends and we told her yeah we do cause it is safer that way for us so people don't ask us to marry them and take them home to America. The lady was way like, "Dangit I don't want to listen to you anymore you guys have girlfriends!!" haha way funny! We might go back, we might not, we will see! Anyways great week and lots of good stuff ahead for us!