Transfers

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Beloved family!

We are on our way to Manila right now.  We are actually on the boat as we write this letter.  It’s transfer week…so we’re bringing these missionaries to the mission office- 2 are departing missionaries, the rest are going to be trainers so they are going to their trainer’s meeting.   We are also  taking this opportunity to get dad’s check -up in Manila.

 We are departing from Calapan, the other side of the island, 5 hours away ( I drove) because dad had to preside for the “ Self- Reliance Convention last night.”.  It was a very good meeting.  The church has good programs for the Saints in the Philippines.  It’s just a matter of training the leaders again so they’ll know how to implement it.

Yesterday while we were driving, I told the missionaries that we will attend the sacrament meeting at 9:00am.  So wherever we are at , at 9:00 that’s the Branch that we will attend.  The miracle was… dad saw the person that we had been looking for in that Branch.  He knew him as a boy and his parents even went to our house in Bay Point.  We had been looking for him because we knew he got inactive and we knew he is in n Mindoro.  But we heard that he just got reactivated a couple of weeks ago.  It was a blessing because dad was able to talk to him and told him that he knew him as a boy.  He was so happy..and dad was happy because he was able to strengthen him and his family.

We love our mission!  It is so fulfilling!  The Lord continues to show us many miracles every minute of the day.  Miracles indeed happen in the action.  Words cannot express the gratitude that we feel for being a part of the Lord’s Work here in the Philippines.

Quote: 

This was our take away from the Self-Reliance Convention.

President Spencer W. Kimball

"In our times there is a need for reservoirs of many kinds—reservoirs to store water, some to store food, as we do in our family welfare program, some like the barns and bins set u

p by Joseph in the land of Egypt in which to store the seven years of plenty to carry them over the seven years of drought and famine.

"But there should also be reservoirs of knowledge to meet future needs; reservoirs of courage to overcome the floods of fear that put uncertainty in lives; storage of physical strength to help us meet the frequent contaminations and contagions; reservoirs of goodness; reservoirs of stamina; reservoirs of faith. Yes, reservoirs of faith so that when the world presses in upon us, we stand firm and strong. When the temptations of a decaying world about us draw on our energies, sap our spiritual vitality, and seek to pull us down to the level of the worldly world, we need a storage of faith that can carry youth through the tantalizing teens and through the problems of later years, faith to carry us over the dull, the difficult, the terrifying moments, over disappointments, disillusionments, and years of adversity, want, confusion, and frustration."




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