Faith, Rain, and NesTea

Rain and 72 hr kits

This week was a good week!  It rained most of the week.I bought a big new umbrella which helps keep me a lot dryer.haha. There is supposedly another Bagyo(storm) coming on wednesday so Sister Barrientos has been checking everyones 72hr kits(we buy ourselves with support money). Mine was good,  all that i lacked was clothes,flash light, and... water... haha whoops!  don't worry I will get everything today so if I need to use it I will be fine.

Faith of Members and Filipinos is Amazing

We are still teaching that new family!  We taught the word of wisdom so that they can prepare for their baptism. It was a great lesson. We had our elders quorum president fellowship. He used to be what they call a lasingero, which means someone who is always drunk. He was able to relate to the father of the family who has cigarette problems. He also provided a lot of good support and bore his testimony of the blessings that he recieved by living the word of wisdom. The whole family commited to follow the word of wisdom. The father is working on his smoking and is very determined to stop! It was kind of funny, right after the lesson the mother brought out a big jug of NesTea!!! haha!  when I saw it I thought "OH no! thats tea" haha to be tactful I asked the sister what kind of juice it was! haha! she of course replied that it was NesTea and then it dawned on her that (nes)TEA is tea which we just taught her was not allowed! Sshe felt really bad and took it back to the kitchen. I think she threw it all out! She is awesome! We felt really bad that she had to throw it out, but we realized that it was a good learning and faith building experience for her and her family. They are a great family and are progressing well. They want to be baptized and sealed in the temple. I know they were prepared for us and I know we were led to their family! It was a mirracle that we found them. We never would have found them (they live behind a bunch of other houses and you can only get to them through a small alley which looks like a dead end) had the mother (Ruby Belina) not been standing on a corner as we passed. I know it was not a coincidence that we found them! I know that the Lord has prepared them for us and has led us to them! I have loved seeing how willing they are to accept commitments then to do them! I am kind of sad because I will probably be transfered before they get baptized. but I know they can do it. My Elder Pingol will just need to send me a picture of their bapt. then when I get home I will photoshop myself in it... haha jk! but it will be hard to leave this area. we have a lot of great members and investigators here. The area also seems to be progressing well.

Branch FHE

This week we also had a branch family home evening. it was really stressful because the branch kind of made us in charge of everything and they didn't help out too much. It was good we watched "to this end was i born" then afterwards we had our branch president speak for a little bit.The relief society president brought food for everyone and everyone talked with the less actives and investigators.