November 9, 2014

This week was super awesome. We had a baptism! We have been working to reactivate and complete the Abargos family. We still have had no luck with the father, which is our next goal before I go home. I want the father to be part of an eternal family, but the baptism was great. It was crazy cause the motor to run the water in the chapel broke, so we had no water.. but luckily we went running around looking for a water truck. We got one who came and filled the font. Which was nice.. thing about living in the Philippines, there are just water trucks.. ready to be used haha. Anyways we had a nice baptism and it was just a stressful but good time. Kyle Abargos might be the last baptism I have.. in these last 23 days! Crazy. Anyways, we had nice experience with our investigator Brother Juancho. He is the coolest investigator I think. He truly was prepared, and we have had a hard time getting him to stop smoking. We showed up one day and Juancho seemed like he was crying. We had a nice leasson and it was just one of those times where I was speaking but it felt like someone else was speaking. Out of nowhere my companion started sharing about the atonement and when i started, baptism for the dead was what I decided to start sharing. In a regular planned lesson .. that is weird. But our lesson just kind of made sense to his needs. We left the lesson with confidence it was good. Last Friday, brother Juancho shared with us that he was thinking to maybe quit. Thinking he was unworthy of the gospel. He didn't want to waste his time thinking he being as wicked from the things he had done, had a change for us. Especially because of his actions it cost him his family. He said it was not by chance that we showed up the day before he would quit trying to follow Christ. But the message he shared about saving his family through the temple was what he needed the most. We had a crazy week yet, the Lord prepared the way. I see his hand in all of this, and how he has a plan for this father who can save his children through saving ordinances of the temple. I was touched and humbled this last week by that. I know that this church is true. It truly has that priesthood to bind us to our families. It also has the authority from God to redeem our dead. Thomas S. Monson said that we are temple attending people. I believe we should strive to be that. Let us all aim for that holy place and stay worthy and active attending that place. I know this is true in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.