Sister Brittany Ann Mecham : Baha sa Bahay. FHE. Zone P -day. week44

Well this week has been leaps and bounds better than last week. I am really grateful I am here in San Pablo. I live with some pretty amazing sisters and our ward is definitely figuring out that they really are important to us and our investigators and we are all going to see miracles this week.

Starting with Monday. We had our normal pday. It was just like any other pday. The other sisters went out early to email then came back for studies while we did studies first and then went out. It was a good thing they went out early and were home because it is rainy season here in the Philippines and we had a HUGE storm come in out of now where. And it flooded our ENTIRE apartment. As in we were pushing water out our front door and doing slip'n slide in our kitchen in a solid inch of water and Sister Mann was doing water angels in our kitchen. And our light fixture turned into a shower head. Yes. We definitely live in the Philippines.

To make this story more fun, we were out buying groceries when Sister Tua'one calls and says "Um...Sister Mecham what do you do if the back drain isn't draining and is starting to flood?" and me not realizing that the pouring rain outside is causeing a serious backup in the drainage here say, "Do we need to buy some drain declogger?...." and Sister Tua'one just says, "I don't think that's the problem. Just get home as soon as you can". So we hurried and got everything then as we are checking out they call again and say "come home for real as soon as you can. Our house is flooded and the Hansens (office couple) just told us to push the water out the front door." I was in shock.

Then we get to the doors of pure gold an there is literally a hurricane/typhoon/bagyio outside and sister Mann is like standing in it while I am in the door saying this is a bad idea. All the workers were like "Huwag sisters", "wait lang", and other things like that. But sister Mann just looks at me so seriously and says, "Sister Mecham we need to go help those sisters". I'm like oh man. OK. So we walked home through sideways rain, very strong winds and puddles up to our calves to get to our flooded home. Holy cow. I was soaked to the bone.

It was definitely one of those things I will never get to experience ever again, but so much fun. The rest of our pday we had to just sweep the water out with our brooms and mop and have the fans on full blast to dry them. It was a mess. Our landlord came over and cleaned out the drain and we haven't had any more problems. It was quite funny though. Luckily none of our stuff was ruined . We just were all really wet.

That was the highlight of our pday. Heavenly Father doesn't flood the earth, he just floods missionary appartments.

My other favorite part of this week is Julie Ann and Vincent. We are really starting to see a lot of progression with them! They have come to church now like 4 times, but they aren't married yet. On Thursday though we taught them and the husband (who has been the one that is having a harder time accepting the church) told us that he FINALLY read the Book of Mormon and believes it is true. But he still hasn't prayed about it. We told him that if he believes the book of Mormon is true, then the whole church is true, so he really needs to pray about it. I think it really caught his attention. The spirit was there so powerfully during the lesson. They came to church yesterday and the ward just welcomed him. It was SO good!!

We have been visiting the members and giving them a list of our investigators and asking them to pray for them and also pray to know of one of their friends that we could start teaching. We have talked to a couple families about these 2 investigators and so on Sunday, I think it finally clicked for the ward to fellowship him. It felt so good to see the ward just go up and start talking with them and take them to classes and we had a lot of members come up to us to tell them they want to fellowship them. Then we did FHE with them last night we had 7 members with us and the light of the spirit in their house was so amazing. I have been thinking a lot about who should fellowship them and one family came to my mind back when I was with Sister Vaipou, but I didn't act on it. But. This week I did and I am so glad because they are perfect for these investigators. The ward is so excited to help them and I know that they will be baptized.

Anyway. We had zone pday today and got to go ride bikes around the lake again and play games at the church.

But the chruch is true. There really is "no unhallowed hand" that can stop it and I am SO happy to be here. This is going to be a great transfer and I can't wait to skype you next week!!!!!!

Love,

Sister Mecham

Baloooooot!!!!

Our Stake Presidents wife had us over for lunch on Wednesday. She found out that I hadn't eaten balot yet....so that was her grand idea for my birthday.
I ate two of them!