MAGANDANG UMAGA!!! Good morning! Wow its only been one week but with everything that's happened I feel like its been one year! So a typical day in the Philippines, Wake up at 6am put on your exercise clothes and work out for 30 min. (note that just walking outside makes you all kinds of wet...) SO running around outside and playing volley ball is so hot but so much fun! Then we shower get ready for the day and it all starts. SO many meeting and planning plus lots of language study, lunch then preparing to teach out investigator (Brother Alex) then dinner teaching brother Alex snacks always somewhere in the day then at 9 quiet time and bed time at 10. Then we start again! I might add in between this all there are lots of companionship talks sooo sooo many prayers some crying (some bad some good) and lots of joking and fun! SO since I've already told you our "investigator" Brother Alex is getting baptized! We taught him for 4 days, in very bad Taglish (Tagalog and English mixed) on the second lesson the teachers told us to memorize how to invite someone to be baptized in Tagalog so we did and used it in our lesson that night. He said no... He said he was already baptized when he was a baby adn asked why he needed to again. we told him we would teach him more about it the next time we taught him. Side note! The Spirit is amazing! I can not understand almost any Tagalog but when we get to out lesson and pray we understand almost everything between our opening and closing prayer! It is so amazing! Anyway yesterday in our lesson Alex asked us kinda near the end of the lesson why his family wasn't changed even though he was praying and reading the scriptures. his family life is not great he has two little siblings his sister and brother. His dad is a drunk adn will beat Alex adn his mom cant do anything about it. (When he told us I cried like a baby with him) I had so much to say and didnt know how to say it in tagalog so i just asked him if i could just say it in english and the spirit could talk to him adn he said yes! so I told him my testimony! I dont really remember what I said but he started to cry and i Cried with him. And suddenly I felt like i needed to ask him to be baptized again so i did and he said YES!!! We didnt know what to do after that so we just said Magaling! Mabuti! Salamat po! Me and my Kasama Sister Riabova were so happy! That night he came adn talked to us and learned that he was really brother Alex but his dad was Alex and the problem we had talked about were his real problems when his father was little. He said his dad had joined the church but was currently inactive and the real Alex had called out fake investigator Alex and told him he felt like he needed to go back to church. Fake Alex then thanked us for all the prayers and fasting and work we had done for Alex the investigator because it had helped the real Alex. After the meeting he came and thanked me. He said your Tagalog is not great but your spirit is and I felt you love in every broken word. THE SPIRIT IS AWESOME!!! Prayer is powerful and I have felt yours for me so thank you! Salamat po!
I love you all!
Sister Baton
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