Alright everyone it is now here!!!!!! Light the World!!!! So i hope you are all prepared for an amazing December this year!!! because i am and i know that by doing this it will make and help us feel closer to our Savior and to our families and to our Father in Heaven. so here is the link for the whole 25 days and what the challenges are for us to do each day https://www.mormon.org/christmas/in-25-ways-over-25-days. So i hope you guys are excited for it!!!! Day 1 is a worldwide thing actually so it should be a bit easier to do :) So day one is Jesus lifted other's burdens and so can you. So my challenge to you guys it to watch the videos for each day and to share it to help others and to read the list of the things you can do to complete the challenge for the day and pick one or to think of your own idea to complete the challenge. I know nga if we do these things that we will receive more blessings than we have room for and that is a promise to us. I know nga we will feel the Saviors love for us and will be able to brighten up someone's day especially if it is someone close to you like a family member or something. and i know nga by the time Christmas day is here we will be able to remember our Savior and what he has done for us so much more and it will strengthen all of our testimonies and faith in our Savior and nga our families will be able to come closer and will feel happier and more peaceful on Christmas and this December so that is my challenge to you guys and i will be doing them as well with you guys so don't worry you're not alone ;) haha but i love you guys and am excited to here of some of your stories from these challenges for this December!!!!!! so i will be expecting feed back when i follow up with this ;) I love you all :)
Sooooo i will start the rest of my email now :) so this week was a kind of long week and had some ups and downs throughout it but it is all good. :) buhi pa ako kag gaginahawa pa man!!!! thankfully :) but let's see so this week has kind of been full of meetings and traveling to the city and last few days was Thanksgiving!!! which i hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving cause i didn't haha... they don't celebrate it here... buuut the closest thing i was able to have for Thanksgiving dinner was pork adobo with rice :) so at least i got to eat some type of meat for Thanksgiving and also i made some homemade fried rice :) haha totally just winged it but it turned out pretty dang good i would have to say😎 but ya umm so this week we have been working with some less actives actually and we have one specific family that i talked about last week i think... Ame family so we went back and visited them Saturday and taught them and checked up on our assignment and read with them in the Book of Mormon and honestly wow did Nanay have some concerns and issues but it was good cause we were able to follow the spirit to listen and to help her resolve those concerns and at the end of the lesson nanay prayed for 30MINUTES. ya that was a fun prayer to listen to haha :) i love her and i think she felt like she needed it even though it was so freaking long for a closing prayer haha but it is ok but at the end she told us she didn't know if she would be able to come to church cause of some of her concerns but we challenged her and promised her some blessings and gave her an assignment that has promised blessings and miracle!!! the whole family came to Church yesterday!!!!!! and i could just see the light they had in there eyes after renewing their covenant with our Father in Heaven. and at first nanay was hesitant to take the Sacrament but when she did i could just see a difference in her mood and attitude. that she really could feel the love of our Savior and that the Holy Ghost had just came over her and let her know that this is where she needs to be because the kids wanted to go home or at least one of them did but nanay was so determined to stay for the whole 3 hours of church and it was just amazing and also Second miracle: we went with a beloved but yet crazy nanay in our group haha her name is nanay Ester, she had some referrals for us and so we went to go teach them and the first family is a tatay of about 56 and his wife 43 and they have 6 kids but as we taught them tatay asked if our church had people who smoke, drink, or gamble cause he hates that people do that in the Catholic church and we told him no that is part of the WoW and he just laughes and told us that sounds like a good and true church to me! we will come this next Sunday! as in super awesome lesson 1 with him!!!! the second one was a family of a nanay that is 43 and her husband is 60 they have 4 little boys and 1 older son and 2 girls that were actually adopted by a mormon family in California to help them out with schooling and everything so because of that it kind of made nanay and tatay more interested in our message and to know if it is true because of their daughters and the family that took them in. Also the 4 little boys instantly sat down with the pamphlets and the Book of Mormon and started reading them quietly in the corner cause we didn't have time to teach but they were reading it and honestly i felt so happy and the spirit there with us and i can honestly say that just seeing the kids like that and the family i felt so good and so happy to be there at that time and to be able to have this chance for them to come to church and to teach them more about this Gospel and for them to have Eternity because this family is a family that i saw a big future with them. So i am excited to be able to tell you more about these visits next week :) but i think that is all i have for this week... Also shout out to my one and favorite MOTHER MALIGAYANG BATI INA!!!!!!!!! I love you and i miss you tons but you are such a big inspiration to me Mom. Dumduma pirme na. (always remember that)
I love you all and i miss you tons!!! Remember who you are. Palangga ta kamo liwat :) haha kag here is a quote that was sent to me and means a lot to me and i read everyday but i wanna share with with you guys :) "He will bless our efforts beyond our fondest expectations as we give our all in His service." - President Eyring
Keep smiling :)
Pagpalangga,
Elder Merrill
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