Come Unto Christ.

Our lives should be a confession of Christ. And together with our words, testify of our faith and devotion unto him. This week was a wonderful week as we worked hard to give everything we are to our investigators. I can seeing them have a literal coming unto Christ. And drawing near unto Him. Marissa, asked her when her WHOLE family can be baptized! Amor, is reading the BOM constantly and giving up his cigarettes. He is continuing to come to church and experiencing a change. We found a perfect fellowship. They even look similar. And both went through the sadness of losing a wife which caused their addition to drugs. Nickanor, totally stopped using cigarettes! He said he feels like he is 25 again! P.s. He is currently 72. He told us that 20 yrs ago 2 elders gave him an english BOM when he was in the mountains. He couldnt understand it bc it was in english. He went up to the mountains bc he became sad and went there to him peace. If he never went there he never would have met the elders. Becuase he couldnt read it she said He had a dream that the BOM was true, someone told him in the dream it was true, then we was walking on a pathway of light then he woke up. Ever since then, he knows that this is the true church and can now hold in his hands a Tagalog BOM and we can speak fluent Tagalog to explain to him what it means. He talked about John, the sheep He has that is not of this fold and said the other sheep are the Nephities and Lamanites, the Book of Mormon people. He will be baptised on Jan 10th! Yay! He will be a strong preisthood holder in the church. Roma, she lives in a junkyard, and has not very many things of a temporal means. We gave her the BOM and followed up. She was on page 100!!!!!! I think that is a new record. She remembered all the people and the stories. She doesn't have enough money to come to church, but I know and have faith that the BOM will help her develop enough faith to come. Eric, is overcoming his addition too. We saw him at his job driving a van while procelyting and the Bom was in the rear view mirror. He said he will read it instead of smoking during his breaks!! Yay! We are happy for him and his family. I know that Christ lives. He is the cornerstone of this church. I believe in Him and know he is the way of truth and salvation. I know that He loves us. He truly loves us and his love is manifest in all things. Nagmamahal, Sister Reed

Evacuated Ruby

Pamilya, Kaya....this has been an interesting week. As you know typhoon Ruby has hit our area. We were evacuated to the Malinao chapel for 4 days....Our whole zone was asked to go there by President Mangum. So it was me and my comp and all the Elders. We didn't shower for 3 days and when we did we showered in the custodial closet in the church. I bet you never thought it would be used for something like that. We are grateful we still has water. One night we were sleeping and then woke up all wet. The bathrooms flooded and sewer water was everywhere! The water was up to our shins. So we were living in sewer water for one day until we got it all cleaned out. EWWWW. It was the color of yellpw...blah! We are now back to our area and it is fine except for flooding in some areas and I bet some houses were destroyed. But our home is okay. We lived on crackers and bread for 4 days. I ate my first meal today and it tasted soooo good! I forgot how good real food tastes. Also, after living in the dark for 2 days, i am so grateful for electricity. What a beautiful gift from our HF. After the 3rd day and the last night the quietness was so beautiful. No rushing wind, the quietness of the storm was so peaceful. I loved the quiet from the storm. We were really prepared for this storm. We knew 2 days in advance, had a game plan, 72 hour kits, water, candles and other things. I was not scared at all. I was not scared because we were prepared. No fear, just faith that God will take care of us. I felt like this story in the BOM really relates to what happened on our mission and has a beautiful interpretation to the typhoon we experience. Ether 4:6-12. On another take in our area we are continuing to see miracles. We found a potential priesthood holder!! Actually three. This is what we fasted for this fast sunday to find more investigators that have potential to becme priesthood leaders. They all have problems with the word of wisdom but they all have a desire to stop and change. That is a miracle. After we taught the lesson 1 overview we taught him the word of wisdom. He said he had a problem with all those things on it, coffee, tea, alak, and cigarettes. When we taught him the doctrine of it and committed him to live it he answered back quickly, "I can stop, I forgot that my body is a temple of the Lord". He also attended sacrament even though there was a storm. He is prepared and has a deep desire to follow Christ and to be saved. He has read Jesus the Christ and other church magazines and has received an answer that this is the right church through his prayers. This is brother Nickanor pala. As we are obedient, I feel the Lord is anxious to bless us with people and priesthood holders that are ready to become members of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Nothing will stop the work from progressing until the lord says, the work is done.