With Love From The Philippines: Week 3

Kumusta everyone! This week has been so great! We've officially hit our halfway mark here in sa MTC! ;) That's only three weeks, so it's not saying much, pero I feel like I literally got here this morning and that it has just been one long day. A mabuti day, pero a long day! :) I love it here. The spirit is so strong, and I've really come to LOVE these mga missionaries. They're all amazing.

Our Zone played some beach volleyball the other day, and I learned that I am basically a volley ball prodigy....... ;) If you can't tell, that sentence is covered in sarcasm. Pero, I'm not the worst. ;)

The older districts actually left for the Manila MTC yesterday, and I am SO sad about it. I'm going to miss them all SO much... Heck, I missed them before they even left.

Pero, good for them! They're going to love it. :) And before we know it, we're going to be the ones leaving, and the new districts will be sad about it, too. ;) Joke-lang.

Oh my! Sister Matheny's mom sent a package full of more CHICKEN FLINGS! Like 30 chicken flings! Almost everyone in our Zone got one, and then we used our Purpose Board thing as a target... Even our teachers were sobrang excited about it. Ha ha, we were laughing so hard, I was literally crying! Guys, the MTC is a freaking blast, and I absolutely love it here. We have fun, and our new DL, Elder Florez (the one who gets packages every day) is still getting 12 packages a week from Mama A. Flo. Lol, we have two years worth of food and goodies. ;)

So much has happened this week, and I don't even know where to begin. We had some fantastic devotionals! Pero, the one thing that has stuck with me this week was one by Elder Jeffery R. Holland. No, he did not come to the MTC to speak with us... If he had I would have peed my pants.

We watched a recording (almost as good) of a devo he gave years ago. It's called "Open Your Mouth". Open your mouth, share this joyous message with the world, let them know why you are so happy. The one thing that really hit me was when he told the Joseph Smith story... Where Joseph went to the grove of trees to pray about which church he should join, and he was visited by God the Father, and Jesus Christ. Well, before this, when he started to pray and started pouring his heart and soul to God, he was filled with this darkness, and the Adversary bound his tongue.

Just take a second to THINK about that. Satan doesn't have the power to kill, pero if he did, he would have. No, when Satan wanted to STOP the work of God, he did the one thing he could do, the one thing he knows would stop the work of God from progressing, and that was to STOP Joseph's WORDS from being spoken. WORDS ARE POWER!

Holland says, "Don't you DARE play into the hands of the Adversary by VOLUNTARILY keeping your mouth shut." OPEN YOUR MOUTH! Share the Gospel with the world! The words spoken about the Restoration of Ng Engbanhelyo ni JesuCristo, the words spoken about this GOSPEL- these are the HAPPIEST words. Tell everyone you know about the Gospel, and OPEN YOUR MOUTH.

This is a good life, and I'm SO happy that I get to be here as a missionary of God! That I get to share this HAPPY message with the mga tao in sa Philippines. :) I don't know where I would be without the Gospel, and without the joy that comes from it.

Mahal Kita!

Sister Mosher