2016 A FULL YEAR OF BEING A MISSIONARY! -WEEK 22

Well this is gonna be a crazy good year.  I will be a dedicted missionary for 365 days straight!!    NO OFF DAYS!!  NO SICK DAYS!!  NO PLAY!  JUST WORK!!  (maybe a lil play!)

But for real I'm sooo excited for this year!!  I can see how I'm changing peoples lives for the better!!  And it's the best feeling ever!!  Speaking of people changing their lives, we have one baptism this Wednesday!!  And then we also have this investigator that will be baptised soon, and he's hilarious!  When he talks about the church he says "our" church hahhaha!!

Training update: well training is always difficult and I was thinking this last week about why I got chosen as a trainer and I thought about what my President would say to me if I wanted to quit!  He'd say "well Elder I know this is what the Lord knows you're capable of doing, cause this calling wasn't from me.  It was from God!  But if you don't think you can handle it, you can just give up.."   Maybe not that harsh but that's how I put in my head to push me hahaha!!

I just want everyone to remember the promise in 1 Nephi 3:7!  About how the Lord prepares a way for us to accomplish ALL COMMANDMENTS!!  Then also a couple verses later in verse 15 Nephi says " I won't go down to the tent of my father until I have accomplished the commandment!!  Something like that.  But I apply it to my life, cause I'm not going to return home until I have brought all the people I'm supposed to bring the gospel!! 

LOVE ELDER BAKER

HAKUNA MATATA!!

 Elder Baker's new Companion

 Elder Baker with his companion and MJ - MJ is waiting for his call( it's in the mailroom today!)

The two companionships in the house now!

The Lord gives us commandments and asks us to obey.

Sometimes I am temped to choose another way.

When I'm discouraged, and think I cannot try,

I will be courageous, and I will reply:

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.

100 DAY'S SAY WHAT!?? -WEEK 14

Well I'm getting close to 100 days holy cow it's gone by soo fast!!  Time flys when your having fun right!? YES I'M DEFINITELY HAVING FUN!!  I love the mission!!  Although I'm a little jealous of Tanner jumping in the snow!!  That looked like fun!  But its ok I love my random humid rain storms lol!! 

So this week was funn!! IT STARTED OUT TEACHING A PASTOR...  lol so we were teaching this family and then out of nowhere their grandpa comes up and starts telling us everything we're teaching is a lie!!  Ya it was pretty sad but instead of arguing, we just wrapped up the lesson and left!  That pastor is lucky I don't speak Tagalog or I would spit straight fire at him!!  GOSPEL FIRE!! 

And then another cool story.  So Friday we went to go to one of our investigators who is an old man and when we got there he was like worried about something and we got talking and he said his sister had escaped out of her room and he didn't know where she was.  She is a 30 yr old lady but she has a little mental problem so he was scared about where she was!  So we started driving in a trike towards the city looking for her!  It was kinda fun.  As we were going we would ask people if they had seen her walking and the first guy said ya she walked by about an hour ago!  Then the next guy said she passed by 30 minutes ago!  Then 10 minutes and then we got into the city where it was gonna be really difficult to find her.  I was sitting in the trike and said a quick little prayer to find her and then like 1 minute later we saw her on the side of the road!!  So we picked her up and went back to his house!  Then we were teaching the investigator and she came out and started to listen.  Part way thru the lesson we asked our investigator if his sister knew how to read and he said no she never went to school.  Well we grabed the Book of Mormon and took it over to her and asked if she could read it and she read it perfectly! (in Tagalog of course) and the guy was soo confused he had no idea she could read!!  But she did so we gave her the Book of Mormon and asked her to read it!  Then on Sunday guess who showed up at church!!?? The INVESTIGATOR!!  Sadly not his sister because she was to shy to go but it was great that he came!! 

So to end this letter I want to quote my boy Nate Garry! "I know little... but the little I know is big!" I was thinking about that and for me it's very true for 2 reasons! 1. I'm not the smartest when it comes to teaching stuff about the gospel!!  But I know it's important and the little I know is VERY BIG!  2.  I know VERY LITTLE Tagalog, but the Tagalog that I do know... IS VERY BIG  and the most important thing any American could say to these Filipinos!!

LOVE ELDER BAKER

HAKUNA MATATA!!

ps. Don't forget you have Heavenly Father that can help you through anything!!

 Elder Baker LOVES the little kids...and they love him right back!

 A sample of his meals.  Elder Baker totally happy to eat it!

 Karaoke.....It's HUGE in the Philippines!  Elder Baker had fun pretending : )

Monster butterflies?

I am a child of God.

His promises are sure;

Celestial glory shall be mine

If I can but endure.