11.7.17 Siquijor

Alooooha! Its me and again and here to report an eventful week. It started last week as we traveled to the next door neighbor island negros where i stayed until saturday. E Ranon had a meeting in cebu and i waited for him there and worked with our Zone leaders. I learned a lot from them and we had a lot of cool experiences. One that stuck out was when we talk two less-actives, one of which was mute because of a stroke. We walked in and he stood there with the biggest smile i had every seen and it made me so happy. Throughout the lesson he pointed and me and laughed hahah maybe he was thinking different stuff about me then i thought but his love was overwhelming. It was a great reminder to me that even through hard times and circumstances, there is no reason for us to get down if we have a perfect hope! We got back home and only had Saturday night to work but we went and saw some of our investigators and still got some lessons in. On Sunday we were blessed with three investigators to sacrament after weeks without any! I was so happy and it was also my first week to conduct sacrament so that was funny hahah we had a brown out half way through so everything got dark and the mike turned off and that was something i had never experienced before. And then another thing i had never experienced before happened hahah. Our investigator (who is a tatay - father). stood up and and walked to the mic and held my hand as he began to prophecy to us. It was so awesome! That is until he got into detail about how Jesus doesnt have an earthy father hahah but the ending was the best. He said: "Salamat, Salamat." (thanks, thanks) and took two bows to the crowd then continued to shake everyones hands on the pulpit including the blessers of the sacrament. hahah but he is good and his family is progressing and if all works out he will baptize his daughters in less than a month! It was a big testiment to me that fasting and praying for help really does work with a sincere heart. We are doing good this week and all is well and thank you for all of your support! So grateful for the people here and go read Moroni 10:32, come unto Christ! love it! Love you all and never forget to press forward in faith.

-Elder Smith

 

Couple pics in here i got the lipstick treatment after i lost a tonguetwister game, as if Bisaya wasnt hard enough. The beach is our p day last week and we were just chillin! Yea nakalimot ko unsa pa pero love yall!