So this week has been a HUGE learning week, like I have learned a TON!!!  I have been reading a lot of scriptures, mostly from Jacob 5, which I spent most of the week studying… That takes some time for sure to understand, but I think I get some of it nowJ This is one of my favorite verses from it.  This is what I am seeking to do everyday, as a missionary this is the mindset, and the Lord is with us, "He will be on our right hand and our left, and His angels round about us to bear us up."  I love this promise and this is the goal every hour of everyday, "obey in all things of the Lord with our might."

Jacob 5:72 And it came to pass that the servants did go and labor with their mights; and the Lord of the vineyard labored also with them; and they did obey the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard in all things.

Also we were supposed to have a Level 2 typhoon hit Aurora on Friday.  But it really only rained pretty hard:(  But anyways we have been taking it easier this week to hopefully get my companion more fully recovered, so ya we are still working on that!

So we had a BAPTISM this week!!! Nanay Virginia Ronao was baptized on Saturday and it was an AMAZING baptism!!  After we all got to the church in Baler, took pictures, listened to some solid talks about baptism, then me, Elder Robinson, and Elder Obena all got in the font with Nanay Virginia and baptized her.  I was the voice, and the other two missionaries just helped make it way easier on Nanay to stand back up, because she is still recovering from a stroke.  And it was a SUCCESS!!! Me and Elder Robinson are now experts at baptizing disabled people that need more than one person to baptizeJ We have done it two times this month, and we are 2/2 ;)  But I think after the baptism might have been the best part for me.  Nanay bore her testimony and told how she has recovered so much quicker since the missionaries came. Miracle… She told how she really needed to know what was going to happen in her life, if she would die or not, and then Tatay Danny offered if the missionaries could come and teach her how to come unto Christ that very day!!  Miracle… She also told about the night before the baptism that she prayed with all her might, the the typhoon would go away so she could be baptized.  And it DID!!! Miracle…The power of prayer is real and she testified boldly of her testimony of that.  She is rock solid and loves to hear us teach her, and usually just wants us to come back soon so we can teach her more. So it has been a big growing experience for me to teach her and we are hoping that someday soon her whole family will gain that desire too.     

Also we got to go to Mother Falls this morning, it is a HUGE waterfall, and it was a super pretty hike up to it, crawling over rocks and stuff next to the riverJ

So thanks for the emails and prayers!!

LOVE YA’LL!!!

Elder Alldredge

Okay, so Kyle never did say how big the swordfish was, but yes we were definitely expecting a bigger "trophy fish" that would belong on the wall.  Very cool story anyways and ugly looking fish!