Hello everyone!!!
I hope everyone had an awesome week!! I can't believe Matthew is already coming home! thats amazing. tell him hi for me and Mckade too! so quick update on water and power situation. Power is still on which has been really nice and we have water for showering, dishes, and toilet, and we have drinking water so things are back to normal here in tagbilaran! Finally! this has definitely made me appreciate power and water a lot more. but yeah so things are good here. I forgot to tell you one thing about the typhoon and Elder Andersen. I can't believe i forgot this. I don't know if you heard from someone else but when Elder Andersen came to Bohol and spoke to the people he left a blessing on Bohol that the people here would be able to recover from the earthquake. as you all know, the typhoon was headed straight toward bohol. we were supposed to be destroyed but at the last moment the typhoon shifted north and missed the island. I was talking to an elder and he said that he heard there was like a bubble of low pressure air or something sitting over bohol and apparently typhoons can't go through low pressure air and that's what caused it to shift up. whether that last part is true or not, we know that bohol was spared by divine power. It was no coincidence that the typhoon shifted and missed us here. Pretty amazing. this is the power of the priesthood and this leads me into one of the things I wanted to share. On sunday, we taught brother J., the one we baptized, and his wife's sister M. we taught them about priesthood. the whole lesson my eyes were opened a little and I was able to see how lucky we are and what a blessing it is that we have the priesthood. How lucky we are that God would trust us enough to give us HIs power. He trusts me, a nineteen year old kid, to use it the way He would. It's so humbling to think about. so after the lesson, sister Mary Lou asked if we could give her a blessing as she is pregnant and is having a hard time with sickness and stuff. I was expecting her to ask elder murdock to give her the blessing becasue he has known her for longer and he does most of the teaching but she asked me to do it. I don't know why but I was meant to give that blessing. that morning I was scrolling through my ipod for talks to listen to and I saw "Healing the sick" by elder Oakes. I was like hm i bet thats good but I clicked on another talk instead. the spirit kept telling me to listen to that one by Elder Oakes though. the thought kept coming to me, "you might give a blessing tonight." I thought to myself yeah probably not, who am i going to bless tonight? but I followed the spirit and listened ot the talk. Haha and look at what happened. I gave a blessing. anyway, for some reason I was supposed to give the blessing. I think it was to teach me about the priesthood and to humble me. I learned that we are given the priesthood to bless the lives of others. that is why we are given it. It taught me humility becasue, well, it's humbling giving a blessing. you don't know what to say before hand and you don't feel adequate to give the blessing but then the spirit takes over and you then know what to say. It was a humbling and amazing experience. well i'm almost out of time and I didn't get to say a lot of things I wanted to say! Ill try to get through them quickly. Elder Ecohawk of the area presidency here in the philippines came yesterday for Mission tour. mission tour is basically a day of workshops or talks given by elder ecohawk and president tanner and others. It was amazing!! Ill have to write some of notes next week becasue i don't have my notebook with me but it was an amazing day! ONe of the things we did at mission tour was we had a choir and we sang How Great Thou Art. It was so powerful. I love this song. I'll just end with the fourth verse. It says, "When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation, and take me home, what joy shall feel my heart! Then I shall bow in humble adoration and there proclaim, my God how great Thou art." Christ will and is coming. I know He lives. He is my Savior, Lord, and King. I know He suffered for each of us in the garden and on the cross. I love Him and I will forever serve Him. I know this gospel is true. I know that we can have joy in this life if we are obedient and serve Heavenly Father. I love you all and pray earnestly for each of you! I pray that you all will be supported in your challenges and trials and I know you will be. I know that we will always win if we trust in Him. I love you all!! thank you so much for your prayers and emails!! they help more than you know. I love you!!
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