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.

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."