1 Nephi 3:7 He shall prepare a way! -WEEK 1

HELLO PO! pamilya and friends!

So the MTC is a pretty crazy place! It's literally non stop studying ALL DAY LONG! And all they do is talk in tagalog in the classroom! But it is a great place to learn because the spirit is so strong here! 

My companion is Elder Egbert! He is a really cool guy. At first we didn't really talk, but I think we were both just really tired! We get along very well which is nice. Our roomies are in a trio which consists of Elder Daily, Elder Asay, and Elder Heaton! They're all really great guys and very spiritual!

So day 2 was even crazier than day 1! As soon as we got into the classroom we were already learning how to testify! We later learned that we were gonna have to know how to testify because we were going to be teaching our first "investigator" the next day! so we learned how to testify and pray in tagalog! but then the teachers left and we had 3 hours to prepare a lesson... IN TAGALOG! It was nuts me and my companion had a like 5 minute lesson on the plan of salvation! which wasnt even like a lesson, just us telling him what it was and then testifying of its truth! LOL thats pretty much all we could do! so we taught or lesson and then as we were leaving the "investigator" says that we are going to be teaching him again on Monday! so we've already started planning our next lesson on the restoration.

Well day 3 was probably the most stressful day of my life! This was the day that we actually taught or investigator and it went terrible lol its a good thing its fake cause he definitely wouldnt have been baptised after that lesson! LOL but by the end of the day i was  really mad at myself and the techers cause I had no idea what they were saying and it was just HARD! But right before we went to our rooms our teacher reminded us of the scripture 1 Nephi 3:7 which is the I will go and do scripture, but she really emphasized on the part about he will not give us a commandment save he shall prepare a way for us to accomplish it! so I know that all this struggle will eventually come to an end and I will be able to teach by the spirit in tagalog!

Mahal, Elder Baker 

His Companion "Elder Egbert"

 

Study Group and selfies!

The Room

 The District

"I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands,
I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey.
I will go; I will do the thing the Lord commands,
I know the Lord provides a way; he wants me to obey."

On his way.... The Airport 8.5.15

We took "Elder Baker" to the airport this morning

bright and early to catch his flight to Salt Lake City.

From there, he was picked up by Tyler (his companion for the next hour)

and they had lunch at J-Dawgs before Tyler dropped our

newest Elder off at the Provo MTC to start his MISSION!

This was not the easiest of days for this momma.

Or for his dad, or his sisters for that matter.

We will miss his smiling face and his funny

sense of humor, but we are so very proud of 

him and know that this is exactly where he should

be right at this exact moment.  We, as his parents and 

his family have done our part.  We are handing him

over to the Lord for two years, The Lord will now do His.

He will help him to learn and grow into the man that 

Dillon can and should be.  His own faith and his testimony

will grow and he will help so many people in the Philippines

and will change so many lives there for the better.  

How can I be sad about that?  I cannot.  

He left with a HUGE smile on his face and 

he was ready to GO!

The MTC drop-off with Tyler after a good ole fashioned

pump up speech about how awesome missions are!

That's a couple of happy handsome guys right there,

proud of my new missionary and my returned missionary.

 

We have been saved for these latter-days

To build the kingdom in righteous ways.

We hear the words our prophet declared;

"Let each who's worthy go forth and share."