Nanay, Tatay, pamilya, at kaibigan! This is my last pday in America!! YAH!! Excited ako! And im getting trunky to leave!! p.s. I just learned that trunky means anxious to leave and pack...must be a weird missionary word. However, I do feel so nagpapasalamat para sa ito karanasang. So greatefu for this experience! I have drawn lalumapit sa Diyos dito, closer to him here. I have learned how to be a better teacher and how to let the spirit work through me so i can be an instrament in His work. This work is not about what I want at all. Who really cares about what I want really. I have learned to give myself to the Lord and to put the things I want on the self for 18 months. Sacrfices bring forth the blessings of heaven. I have learned that obedience brings forth the blessings of heaven. Becuase obediance makes me worthy to have the spirit with me always on a higher spiritual ground. I had a cool experience in my lesson teaching Darly last week. We were teaching him the Law of Tithing. At the end I felt this strong impession, that Diyos wanted me to tell him something. The words came into mt mind. He wanted me to give Darly a promise blessing. That if he paid his tithing, he and his family would never be hungry and that they would always have what they needed. The spirit was so srtong in the room and I could not deny that that was revelation from Dyios. I have been learning to put all my faith that He will tell me everything I need to say, after i prepare and study. I gave Him my heart, and with it, He pierced the veil. I know that the veil is thin between our two worlds. I am trying to become closer to it, so i can be a better instrament of God and be filled with the power of faith (pananampalatya). I had an awe-haw moment in our in feild orientation yesterday! We were learning about faith as an action, and then he stated that faith is power. I began to think about how faith is power. Or why it is power. Having the power of faith to me means that I can have Diyos power within me. Within my heart, soul and mind. That I can be more like the Savior. That when i have enought faith, He will fill me inside to have the capacity to do the things he wants me to do. It gives me the power to recieve revelation for my investigaots, to learn tagalog, to be the best i can be, because i have the faith he will help me accomlilsh them. Only becuase He is in me. According to the strength of my faith. We have to believe that He can be in us first before he can enter his power to fullfil all that is good in this mundo. I testify of the power of faith. That when i am faithful and obediant I can have God power fill my being and become a more celestial being. More purified. And more capable to accomplish the work of my Savior. Becuase my kasama and I are new sister training leaders, we got to host the new sisters this week! It was so fun to welcome then and to make them feel comfotable. Also, later this araw, Merikoles, I got the oipportunity to go to the doctors!! YAH! I had a wart on my foot...actually it grew into 5 warts on the bottom of my foot. Haha, Gotta love the byu dance floor :) Anyways, he gave me 3 options...I chose the one that would get rid of them. He said, we gotta get these things off of ya so when you come back you can get married? No one will want to marry you with wart on your foot! Haha, he was so funny. He stuck a numbing shot down the top of my foot all the way to the bottom where my warts were... Then he stuck three shots in the bottom of my foot with bombing fluid! The stuff you use for dead people! Haha! So they should turn black in three weeks and i can cut them out! yah! It has been so tender to walk on for the past couple days, pero, i am grateful that they can be fixed! They will multiply quickly sa philipinas!! They love the moist, wet and dark! I love you so much! Mahal Kita MAS MAS MAS! Excited ako to call you on monday! We wake up to leave at 615 and we are taking the train to the airport! WHOOO! Filipinas here i come!! Mahal, Sister Reed