Hello!!! :)

This week has been just great! Sister Tuilaepa and I get a long just great! We have been really working hard! We have struggled a little bit this week with finding new Investigators, but we do have an appointment on Tuesday to teach a new family, who we are really hoping this will be the family we have been praying for!!!!

The work is going great and we have a baptism this coming Saturday and we are starting to prepare for April. Our companionship is doing great and we really do love and support one another! The members are still working hard! We are planning a fireside with them that might be a really great way for us to get the trust of the members and receive more referrals! I am so excited because I feel like we are really close with our Branch Presidency in planning this fireside and they are really involved in it! We have a lot of support from this branch! 

Oh and YES!! the Baptism is Jswhy Abellera!!!! :) We are so excited for him! His Dad will be the one to baptism him on Saturday! His whole family are members and were sealed in the Temple! Jswhy went to church when he was a young boy, but then he never got baptized and he went Less Active... haha Yes a Less Active Investigator! haha Well we have been teaching him for a while and he is finally ready to make these sacred covenants on Saturday!! :)

Well one of our new Investigators that came up to us last last week! Him and his Sister are really progressing! They are really searching for the answers! Lovely, our girl investigator.. she came to Church yesterday and she said she felt so welcomed and she was so grateful to be there! She also said that she has learned a lot from the classes! :) and ChristerJohn was not able to come because he had to stay with his mom! But he said he will try next week! But he did tell me that he believes in The BOOK OF MORMON!! Because it's the TRUTH!!!! :) I really love teaching these investigators everyday!! I love them so much and they really do have a strong desire to learn more and to come closer to Jesus Christ! :)

Well I just wanted to share a few of my thoughts about the opportunity we had to write our feelings about the Atonement this last Zone Training! From studying and focusing on the Atonement these last few months has given me some type of strength to be able to overcome or endure the trials of everyday as well as to just have a greater love and compassion for everyone around me! The Atonement has given me peace, safety, love, strength, hope, understanding, happiness, change of heart, forgiveness, repentance, eternal life, great blessings, comfort, joy, patience, humility, charity, service and compassion!!! The Atonement has been the most powerful and life changing gift I have ever received! I am so grateful we were able to really study it and more fully understand the affects of the Atonement in not only my life, but also the lives of my investigators!

Oh and I am emailing late again because we went to Dingalan Beach today as a Zone!!! It was so much fun!!! at it was our last Zone activity together before transfers this week! I have no idea what is going to happen this transfer! but I will let you know what happens next Monday!!!! Oh and I have some beautiful pictures of the beach to send this week! YAY! haha 

Love,

Sister Freeman

Hello!!

Yesterday, we had no power.. it's called a brown out!! so we were not able to email yesterday!! But we were given special permission to email now! :) So don't worry family! I am still alive and everything is just great!! :)

Yesterday, because we weren't able to email... we went to the hospital to visit one of the members that was really sick! We call her Mommy D!! She always makes food for us and she takes care of us! and Her daughter Jinky is the one that works with us a lot! So we went to visit her for our P-Day! She seems to be doing better now and should hopefully be out of the hospital soon! We love her so much! Please everyone pray for her and her family at this time!! 

Well this last Saturday.. we had a Baptism!!!!!!! :) Marty Galvez Mateo was baptized! He was so excited!! he Dad came as well and we are hoping that one day he will follow the example of his wife and kids!!!! Their Dad is the only one that is not yet a member!! but what was so great at Marty's baptism.. His sister Misty spoke! and when she spoke... she spoke directly to her Dad and said that she hopes her whole family is baptized and that they can be together forever!!! :) So we are really wanting to teach him!! But he is always so busy on Sundays because of his work, so he can't go to church! So please pray for him too!!!

Then on Friday!! We surprised my companion!!!!! :) Because it was her birthday and her one year mark!!! so after our work and it was dinner time! I told her that Mommy D invited us for dinner! So we went there and they had the members hiding and they surprised her with a little party! it was just food and cake!! :) and then we shared a message with them for her birthday!! She was so surprised and she was so happy!!!

and then on Sunday.. Our Branch presidency and their families had a Family Home Evening with us for my companion's birthday! I was the one that shared the lesson and then the 1st counselor gave his closing remarks because it was his house.. and he told us how grateful he was for the missionaries and how much they want to support us and help us in the work.. and if we even need anything we can just go to them! So that was a really great Family Home Evening to build the trust of our branch!!! :)

Well overall this was a really great week! We have received lots of referrals from the members and we have found  a lot of new investigators! and the investigators that we do have are really progressing!! :) Yes we are really working hard! and we are so grateful for all of your prayers!!!

Oh and last night! We went to one of the members house last night because their mother-in-law had passed away! So we went to visit the family! and the Husband of the woman that passed away is actually Less Active and we were able to share a message to him about the Atonement and the Plan of Salvation! We had touched his heart so much that he asked us to come back! and he had been sad the whole day.. but he told us that he was feeling more happy and that he was going to be okay!!! 

WOW!! I Love the gospel and the amazing blessings we receive through living it!!! The Gospel really can bring joy and happiness and peace into our lives!!!! I have seen so many people change their whole life because of the gospel!!! I know that this is the true church and Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer!! and I know that I am in the right mission and in the right place!!!!!!!!

Love,

Sister Freeman