Though trials always come for us.... we were very grateful of the comfort and strength that had been provided for us all

Last week was a great challenge in inviting people to come to Church on Sunday since it was a Filipino tradition mostly among Christians to go on swimming as a celebration of Easter season. Despite of this, many of the members even recent converts came to Church and four of our investigators shared to us that they prioritize the day of the Lord. We're very happy of their testimonies that many had been inspired during the Sacrament meeting.  We saw the progress of one of our P.I., Sister Sheny Subasus that though many of her friends hasn't come to Church, she came willingly and she's very excited of her baptism this April. We tried our best to meet and build relationship of trust among the parents and family members of our progressing investigators particularly the children who needs support all the way through their baptisms but some of them just gave their support and are not yet ready to receive the teachings. We'll try our best to make them feel the importance of the gospel to their family as a whole. We focused as well on two families and introduce them the eternal marriage that can happen only in the temple and they understood it and had a desire to enter God's holy house from the testimonies we've shared on our family experiences. From our 6 progressing investigators, two of them are new from the previous week since the previous two (Jeff and JR) are still Primaries and they still lack support from their parents while the new two investigators (Jelly and Leah) are potential since they shared to us their experience and they truly wanted to be baptized. We made goals to teach them based on their needs.

We had a great teamwork last week that everything we felt to be prompted by the Spirit was that we acted it out immediately. Sister Villaflores has a great gift of discernment and I saw her being more obedient and willing to hearken unto the guidance of the Holy Ghost. We made sure that we do not set aside a more spiritual companionship study though we always move it in the evening since we adjust our schedule to help our investigators based on their available time and to avoid as well heat stroke these past few days.

One of the members, Sister Charlene Cabello, helped us a lot in the work last week since most of our progressing investigators are young women and she's a leader in that organization. We had a missionary coordination meeting and we continued to follow up relating to home teaching among our recent converts to strengthen them. We're very blessed to have the support among the Saints here in our recent converts who are priesthood holders since they are now wearing polo with necktie provided by them. Every auxiliary here in our branch are making their best to magnify their callings.

Though trials always come for us and particularly among God's children, we were very grateful of the comfort and strength that had been provided for us all the way in this work. I always witnessed miracles even small ones that blessed the lives of others and I have learned a lot from these experiences. Missionary work is truly a humbling experience and I am excited to share my excitement for the coming General Conference for this week's work among God's children.

I'm excited for the upcoming General Conference.... Mindanao temple in CDO has been announced... Daebak!~!!!! Love yah all.. Saranghae!!!!!!! AishiteImasu...Tell everyone I love them...