General Conference week

This past week was great!

Since the Philippines is behind in like EVERYTHING, we got to watch General Conference a week late, which means just this weekend. But it was still so awesome to watch the solemn assemble and be able to sustain Prophet Russell M Nelson as the President of this church.

We are searching as much as we can for new investigators, but it seems that they are much better at hiding then we are at searching. Our most progressing investigators come from the Monilla family. Lannie Monilla is that one girl who kept hiding from us so we had to corner her in order to teach her, but now she's so excited for her baptism. She even came to general conference yesterday and she loved it! (even though it was all in English haha) Anyways, one of Lannie's brothers, Francis, who is 13 years old shared a really cool experience with us the other day.

We have been teaching Francis and Nelsa (who I call "Bonaynay") about the Book of Mormon and how important it is to receive a witness from the Spirit that the book is true. For if it is true, then Joseph Smith truly was a prophet of God, and this is indeed Jesus Christ's church here on the earth today. So we told Francis and Nelsa that they need to ask God if the book is true and we are SURE that he will answer you through the Holy Ghost. Well, Francis was the first one to act that night, and the experience he reported to us was pretty interesting. Francis asked his older brother, Jonathan, who is a member, how to ask God if the Book of Mormon is true. So Jonathan kneeled down with him and said a prayer asking if the Book is true and said "There! That's how you do it. But when you pray, go into the kitchen. The spirit's signal is stronger in the kitchen." Yeah, I don't really know where the kitchen thing came from, but it made us laugh!

Anyways, Francis went to the kitchen to ask God and he said that right as he did, he felt this overwhelming feeling, which he described as electrifying, and it made him get goosebumps all over his body and then he started crying and took that as his answer. After that he read the book of Mormon for hours that same night.

Well, I guess Francis shared this experience right away with Nelsa, and she actually told us that she got scared when Francis told her about it, so now she's scared to ask if the book is true because she feels like she's gonna get shocked or something when she does. We were laughing a lot at that, but we reassured her that it's not a scary thing at all because Heavenly Father isn't going to scare us, and that nothing bad ever comes from God. This was just last night when we shared this with them, so we will visit them tomorrow to follow up again.

P.S. Sorry if my story was confusing right there haha

Anyways, I know the Book of Mormon is true! It helps me out every day that I read it because it answers life's greatest questions. So many times it helps me find answers to questions I didn't even know that I had. I love it!

And that's all for this week! Love you all!

Picture 1: Walkin around and stuff

Picture 2: Dad, I found this sweet lil samurai

Picture 3-4: There was a blackout, so I used the stove to heat up the iron

Picture 5: A member in Irosin made this for me, and it just barely got to me the other day. He uses straight charcoal. Not a charcoal pencil, but like straight up charcoal from the fire. I keep it on my desk now :)