Monday, April 6, 2009
First Baptism!
First off sorry mom, that i idnt write you i dont konw what i was thinkin! im sorry but Happy Birthday, i love you and your beautiful! anyways as for me and my life here. THis week was CRAZY. first off my companion and his poly friinds decided to go on a road trip to sorsogon a far away part of the mission. anyways they all got caught but instead of giving up , they decided tehy were mad at the people who caught them, the Assistants to the President, so they went on a search for them to try and beat them up, they were fugitives for 4 days. until finally they gave themselves up and went to the missoin home. they even threatended the Mission President himself... anyways while all this was happeing i was baptising souls... so on saturday.. i woke up to no electrictyand couldnt iron my shirt, and we had the baptism at 10 so i was freaking out cuz i had no good shirts they were all wrinkly so i was stressed, but then i learned that the entire philippines was having like a no electricity day! so i stopped stressing and accepted it... then wehen we went to the church everyone was siting out front of the gate. the bishop wasnt there he was sick and we couldnt get in, so we tracted and found the key, we finally got in to realize we couldnt turn the water on because it works on an electiric pump! so we were bummed, then we got an idea to go the the CWC, its a wakeboarding park with swimming pools! so we all agreed on it and got baptismal clothes and headed to the CWC. Now normally the CWC is off limits to missionaries, for the obvious reasons of evilness and temptations. But the bishop agreed, so we arrived and payed to get in. We held the opening excercises in a tree house, filled with grafiti, but no one payed attention to it... after that i baptised Jona and Evelyn Bantog in the swimming pool right underneath the old water slide.. haha it was amazing! sister Bantog came up squeezing my hand and crying out of the water. She said she had been praying to know if the church was really really true. And she said that when she came out of the water that she saw a White light behind me and that she in her mind knew it was the answer she was looking for. She was so so so so happy. If only all of us could have the happiness she felt at that time. She bore her testimony afterwards to us and i almost started crying. She loves the church and her family so so much . Anyways they were confirmed in church sunday. Because conference, is a week late here. So we are all going to Naga so they can listen to a prophet speak... im so pumped... ill try and send pictures but it takes along time on the internet... so probably just in the mail... i printed some out today... but yes my weekend was crazy. my first baptism was nuts but turned out perfect. i wouldnt change it for the world... i love being here. this is the Lords work, and with prayer and faith we can overcome any obstacle. Like their baptism was full of things that could of stopped the baptism from happening. But the Lord provided a way. Anyways family, i love you all and have to go ... thanks so much for the easter candy and my atm card.. i need the pin number though... and does the Credit union need to konw ill be using it out of country? i plan on buying a few things so i need it. but anyways i love you all and have to go thanks for your support and prayers i love you and keep you in my prayers too!... Kapayapaan sa labas! (peace out)
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