The new missionaries got here on Wednesday, and they're working in the more northern part of the area, that we haven't been able to work in all that much, which is actually great, because now that area and the people over there can get the focus it deserves.
This week we've been teaching the mom of a missionary that's serving right now. He and his sister are members, but no one else in the family is. She doesn't want us to call her sister or nanay (what you call older women here), she has us call her Tita, which just means aunt, as the Spanish speakers out there would know. We were teaching her about the Plan of salvation this week and we said to her that before we came to this earth we chose to follow Christ and his plan for us. The only thing we have to do now is choose him again.
2 Nephi 2:27 "Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself."
We can choose Christ, the Great Mediator of all men by following his commandments and example, and gain eternal life. this is the promise that God has made to us, and I'm so glad he has.
Love,
Elder Menzie
Tagalog's a crowd:
Kabahay -- housemates
Pictures:
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| A very interesting game the relief society was playing involving a blindfold, a large pot lid, small bills, and menthol candies with chocolate on the inside. |
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| A corner of my desk |
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| Us and Eliza "the Lost Star" Balod |
