Wow this week was just amazing!!! I learned to much!!!! and we have seen so many blessings and miracles happening in our area!

Well I'll start out with Tuesday! We went to the mission home in Tarlac for MLC (Mission Leaders Council).. and it was a special meeting because Elder Bowen from the quorum of the seventy was there! He started out the meeting with saying "I'm going to be very blunt and bold today Elders and Sisters.. I hope you don't get offended but if you do.. it's not me.. it's the Spirit." WOW! Yeah!! he really has the Spirit with him when he teaches! He was so bold but we learned so much! One thing that stood out to me was a story he talked to us about from the bible. The story about the Fig Tree! When Christ and his disciples were hungry and they saw a fig tree and it had leaves on it! which meant it had fruit because fig trees always produce fruit before its leaves! but when Jesus and his disciples got closer to the tree, they came to found that there was no fruit! So Christ cursed the tree so no one will eat of it. Well Elder Bowen gave that as an example to us.. We have been give this calling and we hold this position and we have this name tag (Our leaves). But where are our fruits? Our fruits come from our example and our obedience and us actually living what we say we live! Because that tree was a hypocrite! and So if we go preaching the gospel but we are not actually living the gospel.. we are being a hypocrite..  and if we are teaching obedience.. but we are actually disobedient... we are a hypocrite !!!! So everyone be careful that we are living what we preach!!!!

 

*In the Bible.. (Mark 11) the fig tree... and the Bible Dictionary.. Fig Tree.

On Wednesday we had exchanges with the Sisters in Camiling 2. I was with Sister Tacon in their area! It was weird going to Camiling because it was like coming home because that was my first zone and I had been there for 6 months! so that was kind of fun to go back! Well Sister Tacon is so crazy in a good way!!! She is so much fun and we had a great time! She is kind of a newer missionary so she is still progress towards Real Growth.. well I guess we all are actually! But she is a hardworker and she loves being a missionary! But when we worked in their area we found a new family for them to teach! That was seriously a miracle!!! and I think the Sisters in that area will be blessed to be able to baptize a family now! :) and we even taught one of their less active families and we taught one of the sons that they had never taught before. He is a member but maybe he has just made wrong decisions in his life. But he was so will to go to church and he said he wants to work with the missionaries to see if he would want to serve a full time mission. and right after the lesson he took out the earing that was in his ear! :) So that was a great experience with Sister Tacon!

On Thursday we had our mission tour!!! So we traveled again to Tarlac! lots and lots of traveling this week! but it was all worth it! The mission tour was With.. of course Elder Bowen and his wife and of course our mission president and his wife! Well There is so much I can share.. but I will just share a little bit!

Well first with Sister Bowen! She gave us an assignment.. and she asked us to write a paper. But it has to be about an unknown civilization... and about their gold and money and how they use it... and about their farming and their wars! and we have to have all the time periods and dates. and we have to write 9 pages a day for 60-65 days! and we are not allowed to go back and erase.. but it has to be perfect with no errors!.... She then told us that is is impossible for us to do it!!! She said there is no way will could!!!! But Joseph Smith is no ordinary man! He is a prophet of God who translated the book of Mormon through the power of God!!! Yes I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God!

From Elder Bowen.. I now understand the Priesthood power and how it works for everyone depending to our personal righteousness. I even now understand the Abrahamic Covenant! :) I fill like I have gain a greater knowledge of the gospel now! :)

Well our area is really progressing and we are doing really great with the work here!!!!! :) I love being a missionary!!!

oh and we were super blessed yesterday at church! Because I talked in sacrament and then Sister Pantaleon taught the Gospel Principles class.. and then We both taught the Relief Society class! haha yeah we have lots of blessings now! but we are now tired of talking! haha 

Well I just want to wish a Happy Father's day to the best dad in the whole world!! Thank you dad for everything! Love you!

Love,

Sister Freeman

Well this week is absolutely crazy! haha

hmm... where should I start! ... Well this week was transfer announcements... and yes after being in Kalikid Branch for 6 months I finally transfered! But I was really shocked to here where I was going and what I was becoming! I was transfered here in Santa Ignacia Ward 1. My new companion is Sister Pantaleon and I am now a STL (Sister Training Leader)... Yeah!! all I can say is please pray for me! I am grateful for this opportunity that I have to be an example to other sisters.. but at the same time I am really nervous! I just hope that I can do this! I am excited to be able to work with a lot of Sisters and get to know them.. but yes.. just keep praying for me and the sisters here under our stewardship! I think this is going to be the time for me to have Real growth! 

Well I was also shocked... because the follow traininer for my anak is Sister Tuilaepa :O!!!! Thats my companion before Sister Oliva! Sister Tuilaepa was in Kalikid for 7 & 1/2 months!!! and now she just went back and she will be there for another 3 months! I was so shocked!!! Her mission is Kalikid Mission! talaga!! haha but Sister Oliva might be going to New York soon! ... But I really miss my anak and I hope she is doing okay! I love both of my companions and I am excited that they will get to know each other!

Well this week in my new area.. we have already seen so many miracles! We have found a lot of new investigators and they were like all super willing to except BGD!!! it's like we are finding the elect and I think we are going to be super blessed with have exchanges as well. I think this area is going to see a lot of growth! I really am just having all my faith in Heavenly Father right now!

Well I can't wait to write more next week and give and update about MLC and my first exchanges as a STL next week! :) 

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!! :) Ingat po! 

 

Love,

Sister Freeman

This week has been a lot better then last week! Last week we had a hard time with all of the trials, but we were able to keep working and were able to grow from everything! Sister Oliva is doing a lot better now. Before, she was super sad and heart broken, but now that she had been studying about the Plan of Salvation.. she has a better understanding of everything and has been able to continue with a smile on her face.

That's the reason I didn't email last because a Sister in our mission, Sister Victorino, passed away last week from an infection that spread really fast in her body! The doctors don't know where the infection is from but it was so fast that her heart finally failed. This sweet missionary is actually the first cousin of my companion! Last Monday we traveled to San Jose.. about an hour or two from us, and they had a memorial service for Sister Victorino. My companion spoke at it because she was they only family member there because they had already sent her body back to her family in Bicol. They had pictures of Sister Victorino and then a few speakers. Everyone that was there knew Sister Victorino and were touched by her in some way. It was so sad to see a beautiful young missionary leave this life early! But we know that she is continuing her work up there!

Yesterday, We were very blessed! For some reason we had no members working with us and we were so punted! So we went to one of our investigators and her and her family were leaving just as we got there. We asked were they were going and she said to her parents house. We asked if her parents or her sister would be interested in us teaching them. She said yes and so we went with her and her husband and son to meet her family! When we got there they were so excited to meet us! They had been taught by the sister missionaries in 2009. They loved the sisters so much and they were so excited to have us in there home. We shared a short message and we have a return appointment with them! But at the end of the lesson.. we asked if Our investigator would say the pray.. when she prayed she cried! Even though she is not a member yet.. she was so excited to share the gospel with her family! 

Oh and I forgot to tell you last week that I got bit by a dog! but I was lucky that I didn't have to go through a million shots and yes I am still alive! :)

Oh and last last week I went on exchanges with my Nanay (Trainer)! Because she is my STL. She is a STL in Cabanatuan! I was so lucky to go on exchanges with her!! I went into their area to work! And we had the funnest day ever! we were really good with teaching in Unity! We worked hard all day! and yes I had missed her so much! So it was fun to catch up I guess you could say! but at the end of the day when we had our evaluation! It was really awesome because she was the one that saw me when I first got into the mission. So she was able to see my growth as a missionary! I could even see her growth as a missionary! She just told me how proud she was of me and how much I have really grown! Yes it was one of the best exchanges I have ever been on!

Well I love you all so much and I am sorry because I am not sending any pictures because I had forgotten to bring my cord or card reader! So sorry about that! But next week I will send pictures!!!

I know that this is the true church!!!!!! :) and the Plan of Salvation is real :)

Sincerely,

Sister Freeman