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Dear Ang Pinakamagandang Pamilya sa lahat ng mga pamilya sa mundo,
This week was awesome!
But,
first thing is first: Mother's day! It's totally coming up, amiright? I
don't really know for sure how I will be contacting you, but it might
over skype. So hurry up and learn how to use that :)
Second thing up: The pictures! Baptisms!
1.
TATAY DANILO! Meet Tatay Danilo at Sister Acu. Sister has been a member
for a while now. Notice the skirt I am wearing - made for me by Sister
Acu. Magaling siya, 'di ba? Also notice how much larger I am than both
of them! Yeah! Being tall rocks. Anyway, this is at Tatay's baptism. I
honestly don't think I've ever seen anyone happier in my entire life. He
is truly converted to the gospel.*
2. The Gonzalez children! The Gonzalez family is one
of our recent converts, so Rica Mae (middle) is not one of our
converts, but it feels like it because we still visit them every week!
Also, don't focus on Jerome (bottom left). That was not intentional, I'm
sure of it.
So, back to this week. Sister Hunt and I were
totally feelin' it during our weekly planning last week so we set our
goal for New Investigators insanely high. Like, 2.5 times higher than we
usually obtain. But, like I said, we were totally feelin' it. And guess
what? "You can do it, if you will be prayerful and faithful. You can do
better than you have ever done before." WE DID IT. Hah, we totally
exceeded our goal. It's beautiful because I know that the Lord will give
you whatever you pray for if your will is aligned with His, at hindi
nanunumbat.
*So lately I've been really focusing on conversion.
In Luke 22:32 it talks about how once you are converted, you must
strengthen your brethren. That is one of the reasons I came here -
because of how blessed I have been to always have the knowledge of the
restored gospel of Jesus Christ in my life - I just want to share the
joy I've felt with everyone! I also recently read in Alma 23:5-6 and
thought of Tatay Danilo. It says that as many as believed and were converted unto the Lord never
did fall away. One of my goals as a missionary is to make sure all of
my converts are converted. Here in the Philippines, we have A LOT of
less active members. Back in the 1900's, missionaries came here and
seriously baptized so many people that are now inactive because the were
not truly converted to begin with. Some of them that we have found
recently don't remember anything about what the missionaries taught
them. No knowledge of Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon. So we have to
teach them as if they were new investigators, except we can't drop them
if they aren't interested! Hah. But seriously. That was a tangent. Back
to where I was going originally - God doesn't care how many people you
baptize. He cares about how many people are converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Which is why we also focus so hard here on less active members. This work is beautiful.
Tapos, mga miyembros namin - kailangan sila maging truly converted
din. Uhh, sorry. Saying that sounds weird in english to me. We need to
make sure that our members here are truly converted to the gospel as
well - not just to the church. We have so many members who are active -
they come to church every week and fulfill their callings - however, who
knows what they do the rest of the week. So we have to teach them to.
Too many people to teach, too little time to teach them.
Well, that's all folks. Mahal na mahal ko kayo, talaga.
Sister Mecham
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