Besides being mackelmore i have pretty much transformed into a pinoy or filipino because of mastering the ancient arts of filipino cooking. the other week we made some bomb adobo and this last week we made a dish called sinagong, it was good! and we use all natural ingredients because i aint about using artificial flavors in my flilipino cooking. so hopefully by the end of my mission i am just a master chef thats pretty much the vision ;)
Before i get into other things i have to share somethings about my companion that just have made me laugh. my companion does a lot of thinking, like deep thinking and will get distracted because he will start thinking about random things and get all deep about it. the other day we are at our last hour and we are at a members house eating some food and my companion for some reason i cant remember why asks about where dogs lived before they became pets. were they in the desert or jungle or whatever. and then he's all like questioning where shiatsu's come from or where they would have lived and another time he starts laughing and we are alone in the house and i ask why are you laughing and he was laughing because he started thinking about a llama and just said they are funny animals...honestly my companion is so funny haha.
in all seriousness though, this week was a beautiful week. i finally got to watch general conference because the philippines is scheduled a week later and then i learned a valuable lesson about the Book of Mormon.
For the past seven months when teaching investigators i didnt realize or stress on my investigators reading the Book of Mormon. it is has been a little rough because for some reason our mission is not really receiving Tagalog Books of Mormon right now so i have given many away because sometimes people may accept one and not read it but i decided to teach it to our investigators this week who we had taught The Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to but they didnt come to know the truth that Joseph Smith is a true prophet of God. So we brought now to two different groups of people we teach the Book of Mormon and taught them in a way where not exactly focusing on the history of it but focusing on the holiness of the Book of Mormon and what it testifies and how it can change their life. I cannot tell you what we have been missing by not really stressing on the Book of Mormon. In both of those lessons that we taught, especially the lesson with this family that is a member referral, the spirit has been there. The lesson with the member referral was a powerful lesson. You really can see and feel that this book will change their lives if they read it and allow it to change them. Even if they don't accept it i felt so good about the opportunity to give them what will create a keystone to their faith to know that this Gospel, the true gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored. My testimony of the Book of Mormon i feel has been strengthened from teaching it. and i hope they will gain testimonies of it too.
Also i want to briefly talk again about when Jyyyyye was baptized because she really had opened up to us before her baptism about what has happened in her life and for a while we just didnt know! but she told us about her past and basically she is ready to be baptized and receive a new life and just being able to help her get to that point as God has prepared her, it was such a wonderful experience that she was able to be baptized.
Okay General conference was amazign! Were any other priesthood holders blown away by the choir that sang How Firm a Foundation??? that was BEAUTIFUL! I learned so much from the Priesthood session and about who i am as bearer of the Priesthood. I loved Henry B. Eyring's talk about being charitable and serving others as a servant of the Lord and also i loved how Dallin H.Oaks told us that we are always on the Lord's errand no matter where we go and as priesthood holders or even as anyone we need to always be in that mindsight and if we are, the Lord will guide us through out our life! Same thing if we will just choose to accept to have the Spirit in our life through exact obedience to God's commandment, praying in faith in christ, praying for other's needs and how to help them and then being humble before God. I learned so much in conference about being a true Disciple of Christ and was touched by the many messages that inspired me to draw closer to my Savior and Behold Him. Behold the Man who loves us, saved us and continues to save us everyday. We have been commanded to be like Him and although we are not perfect if we try and if we use His atonement we can improve everyday and have the hope that we will never be forgotten or abandoned. He is always by our side and we all need to strive to be like Him.
I really since conference have been thinking about that because i love my savior and i hope you all too will try to be like Him. i love you all
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