hello family and friends!
i am in tacloban right now! what a week its been. WE had president malit's two neices live with us and it was pretty fun. It was a bit of an adjustment for them, but they liked it enough that they are coming back with us tomorrow too.
Well last week was actually full of some more tough moments wtih some of our less actives. Sister dustin and i fasted and just kept pouring out heart out in prayer. I actually had a realy interesting experience in one of the lessons with brother renato. He was acting really strange and we unfortunately thought we saw him smoking and it broke our hearts. he wouldn't look us in the eye or talk to us for three days. raymond wouldn't shake my hand when i saw him and would not look at me--he's been drinking and smoking. it was a a hard couple of days trying to figure out what was going on with our boys! then we had an intense lesson with brother renato. i had some scriptures i had prepared and studied earlier that day, btu he said he hadn't been smoking (we didn't full otu ask him, but he just told us this) and so i wasn't going to share my thoughts or scriptures...but then the spirit was almost forcing me and telling me i had to share these scriptures. it was like how i feel in testimony meeting when i know i should bear my testimony and then i talk myself out of it...my heart was pounding and i was almost over come with emotion.... it happened three different times. the spirit told me what i had to do so i did it. it was intense.
well, we got a text from the aps saying they were pickin us up to come to tacloban for a special Leadership training for three days! So thats where i have been. It was been the best three days. We have new curriculum that we've been trained on and the spirit has been so so strong during the trainings.. We've done a lot of role playing and our testimonies have grown a lot. I really love all the changes and different things they are trying to emphasize. I don't have time to explain it all now. I'll have to write a letter about it., but its wonderful. It was incredible too b/c sister dustin and i were role playing as the investigators that we actually have and it got really intense. we both received answers to prayers on how to help our investigators during the role play. It was awesome. I have loved these three days so much.
Anyways, that is why i didn't email on monday and we are emailing now. We had no pday on monday but got permission to email now and take our pday.
Well, life is good. i'll email again on monday.
I love this gospel so much. One thing president malit said that stood out to me today was many people think the choice is to repent or not repent and keep livign their lives....but we find in d and c 19:4 i believe....it is repent or we suffer.
Repentance is so important . Every day!! All of us need to repent, me especially. This new curricullum is a lot about following the spirit even more so than before . and so we talked about being worthy to have that spirit. We've had great experiences this week and a lot was learned. I love you all and i am doing well. Salamat kaayo for your love, prayers , and support. i sure need it! !
And soorry i have tried to send letter for the past 3 weeks, but there have been no stamps on biliran island...so monday i will try again. nana's card will be late maybe.
Love you all!!!
sister b
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