"power and great glory"

My blog post is a little late this week.  Elder Williams asked me to keep a lot of his letter out of the blog this week.  I felt like I needed time to read it several times to decide if I needed to leave out more than he asked and I did.  Our family is really missing him and are counting the DAYS until his return.  It has been and incredible journey and cannot wait to see him again.  It has been 2 years since he received his mission call and at times it feel like it goes so fast and other times it feels like time has stopped.  We have been blessed from his service to the Filipino people.  It is amazing that you can really love and appreciate people you have never met.  We love the people of the Philippines and they will always have a special place in our hearts. 

Mar 3

Work started today immediately after church, we taught Angelica about baptism today. Linglingay was pretty disappointing today, but soon it will have two missionaries of its own... eka. We finally taught Reino today (the guy Elder Weimer and I taught), it was great! The only other memorable part of the day was we ate barbeque & had Sprite at the Soriano Family's home (they have a son on a mission right now, so we go there pretty often.) Then we had dinner at the DeGracia Family: Munggo at tinapa kasama ng saging. (Legumes and along with dried bananas) Ayoko magpamataas, ngunit mahal talaga ako ng Diyos

Mar 4

P-days lately are the best they've ever been. I think it’s because life is sometimes that like it’s like life. I know my English is awful lately, but can't you all just cut me some slacks?

OK sorry. trip ko lang kasi. We had practice for our musical number in Zone Conference on Wednesday; it helped a lot having Elder Fort teach us. And reporting today was so easy! I love the new MCR so much. Today wasn't too busy of a day. After email we ate at Hubby's then went to Friendship. We got home around 2:30 then cleaned the house and enjoyed some kwetuhan with the San Anton Elders

Happy Birthday McKenzie! 

Mar 5

This time last year, my dad wrote me a letter and said "Well, it's that time of year again. The time when the town stops to celebrate McKenzie's birthday with a week-long celebration." haha. Today was a good day.  We went tracting today in Bagong Sikat and nobody would talk to us. It was bad enough na we went to the Fort's home to ask for referrals, but I forgot they can't speak the language so they don't really know anyone

Mar 6

Today at Zone Conference I saw something that has changed everything about me and the way I look at life. This morning we were sitting in the chapel waiting for the meeting to start, and Sister Martino was saying hello and talking to the missionaries. It was during this time that I looked into her eyes and I actually saw "power and great glory" (1 Nephi 11:28). I don't know how to describe it adequately, but it's something I've never seen before in my entire life. And I'm sure I saw it, because I saw it again during the opening song. I saw a husband and wife, eternal companions, who had lived in such a way that the only thing keeping them from exhalation was death. We talked about the Doctrine of Christ today, but it was the same stuff from ZLC. Once we got home we walked from house to house and got punted over and over

mar 7

We taught Lola Aniana today, her house is HUGE! The upstairs was so big to get from one side to the other we had to walk back downstairs and up a different staircase. We taught a lady today about baptism and she comitted to Apr 6, but then told us shewas going to Pasay and wouldnt be back until May. patay.. Why can't I ever have a story like they put in the Ensign or Liahona? We knocked on a bunch of gates today but nobody would let us in.

mar 8

Today Guimba 3 had a baptismal interview, so Elder Weimer and I worked in their area. The baptismal interview was.. a very edifying experience (see D&C 50:22). It was someone who was first taught by Elder Abuan almost two years ago but then she moved to Leyte and just recently got back. 

Not much else happened today, we ended the day with pandesal and hot chocolate

Mar 9

Elder Bellen and I went to Linglingay but only taught one lesson, but she's going to Manila in a few weeks, so we can't do too much to help her out. 

We stopped by the Espiritu Family, nobody was home. Once we got back to the bayan we taught Mae and her Friends, then the Oneza Family.  the hardest thing I've ever had to do is watch people make the wrong choices, even when some of them have mad  the right ones previously and turned away from that. And my entire mission its been pretty easy to get baptisms and help people come back to church, but what's happening to us is strange, almost foreign, because up to this point in my mission I've had pretty good success and the people have been pretty nice.

ok my times up. I love you!