For you it's spring, but here we're right in the middle of the HOTTEST
part of summer! So yeah I get to sweat to death right before I come home.
Philippines is just great!
So anywho, it was good hearing from each of you. This week sister Tuia
and I have been very busy getting our investigators ready for baptism. Macmac
is ready to go for this Saturday. We've been working a lot with Melody to get
her ready. We've had some of the most spiritual lessons with her. I just love
this girl. She's 21 and here in Mandaluyong working at a member’s house. Even
the first lesson we taught she was in tears talking about her family. This last
week she was in tears again talking about past sins, and she is just SO excited
for her baptism and to feel the cleansing power that comes from our Savior. As
we've been teaching her about different commandments, I've just seen her
sincere desire to repent and through repentance have seen her come closer to
Jesus Christ. It's been such a blessing to be teaching her this amazing gospel.
She will be interviewed this Thursday by President Stucki, so please keep her
in your prayers. But I'm not even worried because she is just as they say one
of "God's elect." I'm so excited for Melody!
She always talks about how she can't wait to go home and visit her
family in May and bring them copies of the Book of Mormon and all of the
pamphlets and share her testimony with them. They live way out in the bundoks!
(That is the Tagalog word for mountain, but it’s funny because we use that word
all the time in English, right?) But yeah she said they are far away from the
church and the missionaries wouldn't be going out that far. But she also has a
sister who is living in Las Vegas that we are going to get the missionaries
over there! That is also really exciting because Saturday night she was telling
me that in a year or two she will also be moving to the states!! I was so
excited to hear that!!! So yeah it's just been such a good week for Melody. She's
taken some big steps, and I'm so excited for her. I was reading the baptismal
qualifications last week in D&C 20:37, and the scripture totally describes
Melody. She has humbled herself and come forth with a contrite heart and broken
spirit. She has the strongest desire to be baptized, more than probably all of
my past investigators. It's just been really neat teaching her. I can't really
explain:) The family that she lives with
are so awesome and have been a huge part in her conversion! We're actually
doing a family home evening with them tonight!
Also this week, as I told you, Kevin left for the MTC. Thank you, Mom
for taking care of that for him. I also gave him something for Sister Foster,
so hopefully that all works out. We did a little send off party for him, and I
was asked to give a testimony at his party. 
Then on Saturday it was the Relief Society Anniversary. And, man, Filipinos really know how to do an anniversary. I don't even remember what they do in the states. But yeah they had a "Woman of Asia" night where each ward was assigned a country from Asia and did a dance and made food from the country, and it was pretty intense. They went all out and practiced their dances like every night. They also go all out with costumes. I have some videos I'll have to show ya when I get home. One of the wards in Makati is actually a foreigner ward (Surprisingly there are a LOT of foreigners in Makati.). One of the Americans turned to me after and said, “You've never seen anything like that in America; have you?” It's true; they go all out! We weren’t sure if we were going to go actually because we were just going to go if we had investigators to go with us. Well our investigators bailed last minute. So we were close to bishop’s house, and we just stopped by. They were cooking the food and needed a lot of help. So we ended up cooking Korean food for them while they took off for the stake center. Then we had to bring the food over there. So yeah that's how we ended up at this activity. But it was a lot of fun.
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