Malamig ba?

Kamusta y'all!

     Maligayang pasko!(Merry Christmas) It's already September, which means Christmas in the Philippines. So of course we started off our Sacrament meeting with a Christmas song. Because it's the rainy season it's also a bit cooler(mostly because of the typhoon), down to almost 70 degrees. So everyone here was a bundled up... I thought it felt great.

     The past few weeks we've been teaching Sister Zhalimar and she's so cool!  She's been taught in the past, but stopped because she was busy with school, and wasn't sure she was ready to be baptized. When she came back home she prayed to know what to do, basically which church she should join. She asked for some sort of sign or assurance of how she could best serve God, and that's when we showed up at her home to visit her grandparents. She recognized that as her answer, and now nothing can stop her. Because she already has begun gaining a real testimony, she knows how to ask for and receive additional assurance that what we're teaching her is true. It's been such a wonderful experience to teach her and to help answer the real questions and concerns she has. 

     I know that real conversion is something that happens individually, based on our own acts of faith. No one can talk you into gaining a testimony. No one can convince you of spiritual truths through their own efforts. We have to exercise our agency through "an experiment on the word." We all have to do the work to know the truth for ourselves, and when we do nothing can stop us. 

    Aganad y'all!

      Sister Harrison

1. Sister Judy Anne!!!

2. The field is... green, and ready to harvest!