Mandaluyong- week 4.....to be confounded or not to be... that is the question... :)

Kumusta!

Salamat for the emails! I appreciate them!  This has been yet another great week... I've learned a lot of lessons and it's been great. 

Our investigators are progressing. One of them is Sister Venilou. She's never been to church but now she's been reading the Book of Mormon. She loves reading the Book of Mormon. She's been trying to pray about Joseph Smith, but it's been hard for her to find the time because of her job and then her three little kids. But she says that she will keep on trying to pray. It was really good. Another of our investigators is Tatay Dominggo. He's been an investigator for about four years because he can't stop smoking. However, in our companionship, he's been given a blessing by the elders, he and his wife now have three temple pictures and a plan for him to stop smoking. We felt that we needed to start over from the beginning with all the lessons so that's what we are now doing. We taught him part Lesson 1 and we're going to continue with re-teaching him the lessons. God is really helping all of our investigators out as they start to put their faith in Him. It's amazing. We've been visiting with many recent converts and less-active members and it's great. We're finding new investigators. One of the Less-actives is the Morosa Family. Only the father is a member. His wife is Catholic and his children are baptists. He was baptized when he was around 18 or 19 years old and then left the church a few years later because he couldn't understand English very well (in those days, the church was completely in English). He then turned to the Church of Christ..(the religion started by a former BYU graduate) and then many other religions He's now around 45 years old. Since he's been to many different churches, he is really like an investigator. Right before we met him, he had been investigating the Dating Daan church (another church started by a different BYU graduate)... needless to say, he's interested in religion. He's currently a born-again Christian but he's getting more and more interested in relearning these things about our church... We feel that if he becomes active again, then his family will follow. It's a long process with him, but that's fine. He's had many years of different religion's doctrines in his head so it's understandable. The other day we had a lesson with him and it was a really great lesson. He loves to ask all sorts of these questions that are the "weird" ones. You know the ones like, "the bible says that Heavenly Father and Jesus are one person"... so the trinity thing. He has many, many questions like that. We taught about prophets and Christ's church and the spirit was there. We answered every single one of his questions and he understood the answers and I know it was because of God's help. Truly, since I've gotten to the Philippines, I've seen the promise by God being fulfilled... the one saying that we won't be confounded by men. It's a great testimony builder each time for me. The weather has been great. I love the rain, but the rumor is that it might end soon... sadly. Oh well, I like the sun too just not as much as the rain :D.  God has really been helping me out and I'm so grateful for the lessons I've been learning. Grabe! I saw the pictures and yes (I said it before when I first saw him but I'll say it again), he's like a mini-nikki completely! I couldn't really see his ears so I don't know if they were like Mitch... but he is truly like a mini-replica of Nikki- in baby boy form!  Have fun with him. :) Thanks again for all the emails and hope you all have a wonderful week.

Mahal ko Kayo,

Sister Mohrman