April 26, 2015
Hello to you all!!
Well, I don't even know where to
begin! I am just so full of love and gratitude right now. Heavenly Father is
just so aware of us as his children, and I am so grateful that He is taking
great care of my sweet family back at home. Oh how I wish I could have been a part
of Elizabeth and Jeff's wedding, but I am so happy that it went so well! They
looked so beautiful in all the pictures and my testimony was really
strengthened about the importance of eternal families. I can't wait to share
this testimony with the sweet people here in the Philippines! WELCOME TO THE
FAMILY, JEFF!!
This week was so great and I had the
wonderful opportunity to go on exchanges in Marikina with Sister Viray, one of
the cute new missionaries.
We also had zone conference on
Thursday which was so amazing! And afterwards I had the opportunity to go on an
exchange with Sister Latham (Jordan's friend). She is such a great missionary
and even at 4 weeks, she is sooo good at the language! I will send pictures
next week:)
Sister Osumo and I have such a small
teaching pool, so this week we did LOTS of finding!! And Heavenly Father
blessed us to find his elect!! As we were tracting on Saturday morning, we met
a 20 year old named Erwin. He looked nice, but a little rough, and we decided
to talk to him. Wow. You just never know who is searching for the gospel! He
told us that he is Catholic, but how he has always just felt that something was
missing. He has attended many other churches as well to fill the hole that was
in his heart. We shared with him a brief overview and left him with a Book of
Mormon to read.
We went back to visit him yesterday
after church, and as we sat down, he pulled out the Book of Mormon with a whole
page of notes he had taken from his reading. He was so cute and thought that we
were going to take the book back from him, so he wrote down everything that he
liked and what really touched him. He even mentioned that all the questions he
has always had, are already being answered by the Book of Mormon and then bore
testimony of it, how he know that it is true. We were able to teach him the
message of the Restoration and you could just see how what we shared had an
instant impact on him. We extended a baptismal date to him for June 6th and he
is so excited!!
We also found another investigator
last week at the grocery store, Tala Pil. She asked us to come visit her and we
did! Wow. She is so prepared too!! She came to church yesterday and just cried
in each class!! She has a baptismal date for May 30th!! Sister Tessie Gimena
also came to church yesterday and she too is so excited to be baptized! The
ward is doing a great job fellowshipping, and I could not be more excited!!
Love,
Sister Anderson
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