"THROW THE UMBRELLA AWAY!" -WEEK 93

Soo first off about the subject I heard something cool in church yesterday. So this guy was talking about how God is always showering blessings upon us but sometimes we’re just too scared to take in all his blessings! Then he said "GO OUTSIDE, THROW THE UMBRELLA WAY, AND TAKE IN THE RAIN!" 

I thought it was the coolest thing cause God’s blesisngs are definitely raining down on us ALWAYS! Maybe not the blessings we want.. maybe it’s a trial.. but no matter what it is, IT’S A BLESSING to help make you stronger and more ready to enter in his presence! 

But we had a pretty good week this week.. well it ENDED AWESOME!! So my new companion is Elder Balacuit this is his second area so he’s kinda new but he’s a GREAT missionary! Kind of quiet but I’ll break him out of his shell and help him be a little more open. But this week I was kinda showing him the whole area so that hopefully by next week we can do splits cause we have a lot of members that work over here with us, so hopefully we will be able to find those people that are ready for the gospel quicker haha! 

But we had the most awesome blessing this week! So our investigator Arcel came to church FINALLY!! She was the one that couldn't go cause her dad didn’t want her to ..BUT she was able to go this week and brought her little sister with her so that was AWESOME!! She’s soo excited to be baptized also.. we had to move her bapt date and she was like "ohh why I thought it was the 30th" haha so she really wants to be baptized and she loves the Book of Mormon! She testified of its truthfulness to us last week! I’m soo excited to be able to help her come unto Christ and finally see some progression in this area, she could be my last baptism..hopefully no.t Hopefully we find those other souls that are waiting for us! 

But Arcel coming to church was another testimony builder of FASTING! Cause I was fasting that her dad would soften his heart and let her come to church and.. it WORKED!! YESS!! So I’m pretty excited now and pumped to go out and find more people ready to be taught! 

One other thing that was awesome that we talked about in district meeting was the story of Lehi and his dream and how he wanted to share the fruit with his family and then Elder Vainikolo brought up the word ohana which means of course "family and family means no one gets left behind" and we talked about how everyone here is our family and we need to make sure NO ONE gets left behind! and doesn’t hear the gospel!! 

I love each and every one of you. You’re all part of my FAMILY!! And I hope you have an awesome week and an even better MOTHERS DAY! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THOSE AWESOME MOMS!! Where would we be without you!! 

LOVE ELDER PANADERO

HAKUNA MATATA!!

 "district"

TURNING "20"

PRAY THAT WE FIND A SOLID FAMILY! -WEEK 50

HEYOO FAM AND FRIENDS! 

So this week was one of the new transfer and there were a lot of changes to our district well not a lot but half cause there's only 8 of us! But the 4 sisters got pulled out and 4 new ones came in! So that was pretty hard for them this week! But us.... we were just working like normal, besides when the sisters needed help then we would have to help them, but it was fine.. we had a lot of time to work!

SO like last week we were working with our progressing investigators sister Loribell and the Peranca family and Loribell is doing great! We are gonna visit her everyday this week because she is hopefully gonna be baptized on the last Saturday of July!! Yess!!  She is soo great she is like always into the lessons and wants to learn and then goes to like the activities that all the young single adult members go to!! I'm wayy excited!  The Peranca's actually didn't attend this week... we went to the house to invite them and they weren't there... but we'll go over there tomorrow and straighten that up hahaha! 

But other than that we have just been focusing our work on families, so we are gonna focus on finding families and completing part member families. So we are just gonna look for some families this week hehe!  I'll let you know how it goes. Pray that we find a solid family!! 

Sorry this is short but GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES!! 

I have a lil spiritual thought and a question for you guys!  The question is an argument we've been having!  Did Jesus have a body when he created the earth? Or before he was born?? All answers would be appreciated hehe or thoughts!

And then for the spritual part, comes from a verse in the Book of Mormon! 3 Nephi 12:48 Jesus says to the Nephites "I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven in perfect."  k now think about what things are keeping you from being perfect.... did you find alot?? k now get on your knees and pray for those weaknesses to be come strengths (Ether 12:27)  Then start your journey of perfection!!  Something I was thinking about yesterday and I'm gonna do it later tonight! 

MAHAL NA MAHAL KITA!! PAGDAGOS LANG KAYO!!

LOVE ELDER BAKER

HAKUNA MATATA!!

 Elder Anselmo and a Tricy on a rainy day in Ligao

 "I still haven't sent a pic of a tricy or jeepney, but this one is just a bike not a motorcycle!! that's all a tricy is... is a motor with a side cart!"

 371 days left?  what?  almost to halfway??
Elder Baker and Elder Merrill MTC buds for life!

 Ligao zone.... and here is a quote from Dillon about the pic below 😂

"the one is my boy elder puyong who is a straight g he's dropping the hottest album in 2016 as you can see from the pic!" 

 "And if men come unto me I will

show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."   Ether 12:27      

BI...BI...BINYAG!!! -WEEK 29

WELL THIS WEEK WAS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE WEEK EVER!! IT'S UP THERE WITH THE BAPTISM IN THE OCEAN!! 

Well, binyag I baptism in Tagalog!!  And we had a baptism this week of  MY FAMILY!!  I call them my family cause they literally are my family hahaha!   I love them soo much!  This family is the referral we received back in December!!  Or something!  But we've been working with them for a long time getting them ready for baptism and sadly the dad didn't get baptized because he has work 3 hours away and he's only home 2 days of the whole month!!  But he wants to get baptized!  He heard our lesson about the restoration the first 2 times we taught them and he knew it was true!!  But he can't attend church so he can't be baptised!!  But he wants too!!  The family is already planning a temple trip!!  

So the baptism was great.  There was 4 of them.  3 the Cantoria family and then their niece that lives with them!!  So what we did is I baptized 2 and my companion baptized 2.  I got to baptize the mom and the niece!!  It was sooo great!  But the best part was the testimonies!!  SO, the niece bore her testimony and it was really funny!  She said the missionaries are soo great,  one time even though elder Jardeleza had lbm (loose bowel movements) they still continued to teach us!! hahahha   

But the moms testimony was great.  She talked about the first time she met the elders in the hospital, she could feel something was different about them!!  And her kids would always see us walking by their house when we would have to walk home and the kids would say I want to be like them someday! hahaha   But then she just talked about how in the first lesson we taught her, she knew our message was true!!  When we taught her the true nature of God the father and his Son, she said that it was true and the catholic church teachings were wrong!!   I was soo happy the entire time she spoke I was just smiling the entire time and AHHH IT WAS SOOO AMAZING!! 

LOVE, ELDER BAKER

I LOVE THIS WORK!!  I LOVE THIS PLAN!!  I LOVE THE PPINES!!  I LOVE THE GOSPEL!! 

HAKUNA MATATA!!

Now we know that we must also

Witness faith in Jesus' work,

Be baptized to show obedience,

As was Jesus Christ, our Lord.