Sister Brittany Ann Mecham : Kumusta po kayo! Week 16 Philippines

Well. Another week here in the Philippines and it has been quite great! We had zone interviews Tuesday in Lucena and it was perfect. We are really focusing on using the book of Mormon more in our teaching and really helping the people understand the importance of it, so it was good to learn some other ways of sharing it. Plus we got to see President again and it was SO good to be able to talk with him for a few minutes. At the end of the interview he gave me another hug, and it just was nice. I definitely notice the difference of not having a priesthood holder in our house.

On Thursday we had our Sister Training Leaders come again and help us in our area. I worked with Sis. Harris and Sis. Lorente worked with Sis. Umiten and between the 4 of us, we had 9 lessons! It was so great, and 4 of our lessons were to members. it is definitely good. Friday and Saturday were good too and we got lots of work done and Sunday is a good recharge for the week.

Plus we have SIX investigators with a baptismal goal date so we are really focusing on them this week!! We have had some really good lessons with all of them this week too and we had an investigator at church! Her name is Jocelyn and I love her. She told us that she knows the book of Mormon is true and we watched the restoration dvd with her and the spirit was so strong!! She is SO prepared for this message and is really just thirsting to know the truth. She said that after we taught her the plan of salvation this week, she had a dream that she needed to keep reading the book of Mormon to know everything it contains!! And so she has been! I feel so humble to be able to work with her and teach her about this gospel.

We have another investigator. His name is Napoleon. He kinda gives me stress sometimes. He is 67 and it has taken us a lot of time to build trust with him but FINALLY we have it!!! He has had a stroke so it is hard for him to feel that God loves him, but he has been reading the book of Mormon as well and I KNOW his heart is changing!!!! We also watched the restoration with him and he was crying. and again I just can't believe Heavenly Father is giving me the responsibility to help these people, but also the opportunity to get to know them as well. I am so lucky.

Our cute family is still just adorable. We have been having the kids give the prayers for the lessons and just help them give them, and it is a little piece of heaven. They are angels. They have been praying as a family too! I want them to be married so bad so that they can be baptized then go to the temple in a year. They wanted to go to church on Sunday, but they don't have the money for it. We are going to talk to a member this week and see if he could bring them on his tricycle in a couple weeks because we have stake conference this week. And they have also been reading. It makes me SO happy! Plus they really enjoyed some of the M&M's mom sent.

And today was perfect. We had zone pday in Lucban. and it was gorgeous. It is about 2 1/2 hours away from us and it is up in the mountains, so it felt wonderful! There is a place there called Kamay Ni Cristo healing garden or something and it has all these statues of priests and Christ and on this mountain side, there is like the life of Christ and when he was crucified in statue form and at the very top there is a HUGE statue of Christ. It was SO COOL!!!!!

Any way. Know I love you all and I love being here. I am definitely loving my life right now and I love that I am a missionary.

Love,

Sister Mecham

Bus Ride!

I ate this fruit. It is gross. It smells really really bad and then it has this weird membrane on it and looks like a brain. and then when you bite into it, it like oozes and is weird. I finished it though. It is called Durian.