WOAH!? What a week just like a fellow
missionary said after all the hard work and diligence... the MIRACLE COMES!! We
had SUCH AN AWSOME WEEK I CAN’T WAIT TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT!! But first lemme
tell you about the awesome food I ate.... SQUID!! ahhh haha so like I HATE sea
food so it was a BIG step for me to try and eat squid haha but.... it was
DELICIOUS! haha they cooked it in like coconut milk and it’s SOO good! Then the
second thing I ate was SNAKE! haha JK I didn’t eat the snake.. haha but funny
story! So we went to go teach one of our investigators one morning and showed
up and there was a SNAKE on the loose haha so we helped trap it and KILL it
then the kids just went nuts on it and tore it to pieces to show the snakes
friends not to mess with their house again!! Then we got to help our
investigator clean their house but we didn’t get to teach them cause they were
busy after killing the snake haha..
So.. the first miracle! Well one of the guys we
have been working with brother Mike CAME TO CHURCH!! He’s super cool.
He’s a baptist and he’s super good at the bible so it’s hard to teach him
but we finally convinced him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about Joseph
Smith and decide to come to church! But the real miracle was how WELCOMED he
was at the church! Cause he always tells us how he wants to see in a church how
the members really PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH! And he said that he saw that in
our church and was very welcome! You might ask where he told us that?? Well HE
TOLD IT TO THE WHOLE WARD IN TESTIMONY MEETING HAHAHA! He walked up on the
stand and bore his testimony about how welcomed he felt in the church haha! Soo
that was pretty awesome!
SOO THE SECOND MIRACLE was we finally found
"THE ONE" but it gets better it’s not just the one as in 1 person..
WE FOUND "THE ONE FAMILY"!! This is a family that has been prepared
for the gospel!! We first meet them while out walking.. I saw a guy in a
hammock with his kid and shot him a smile... then he smiled really big right
back at me SOO of course we went and talked to him and he invited us in his
house and we taught him a lesson it was just him at this time cause his family
was gone, but he was so excited for us to come back and teach his family the
next time! So when we went back his wife had read the whole pamphlet and knew
everything we were teaching! And knew it was all true! Then when we were
leaving she asked us about church.. we totally spaced on inviting them, but she
asked us where our church was and what time so they could come to church that Sunday!!
haha like WHAT?!! #BLESSED! So we went back and taught them on Saturday and
when we showed up she told us she was scared they weren't gonna be there when
we got there cause they were gonna leave and she said that we would just see
each other at church haha!! HAHA AWESOME!! Well here’s the sad part.. they
didn’t make it to church on Sunday because they had to do stuff for school
because today is the first day of school they ended up being busy but she said
they would definitely be there next week!! We are so excited for this family!!
And for these next 7 weeks before I go home! The blessings are finally coming
in after a lot of hard work and diligence here!!
#blessed!
LOVE ELDER PANADERO
HAKUNA MATATA
money in the Philippines...very colorful!
Elder Baker's new fan his comp gave him. Looks like he needs it!
the snake...after it learned it's lesson!! haha
a goat Elder Baker was playing with
the SQUID!!!
The NEW FAMILY the found to teach!
