Elder Kyle Alldredge

This week was a faith building week, a miracle week with an especially awesome Miracle Day yesterday. I now have a stronger testimony about when our faith is being tried, when the work isn't quite as successful as I would like, to work even harder, to strive to be more obedient, and the miracle is there waiting. Me and Elder Guia totally experienced that this past week.

D' Day of Miracles-This day started off with me and Elder Guia having a goal of 14 ISM's. We were praying for it a bunch saturday and sunday for that to happen. Because the past couple weeks, we thought we would have a high ISM, and our investigators to come to church but we only got a few. So that is the trial, but yesterday we felt good about the goal, and about the investigators that said they would go to church. So we got up and got ready faster than usual, and went walking around visiting all our investigators. It started out with lots of No's... About 5 investigators that couldn't come to church, or weren't at their house. But then we took a trike to our other investigators and picked up 3 of them. Then we went to the church. Sacrament meeting started and a couple members brought a few more investigators, until we had 6, but we were still hoping/praying for more to be able to come. Then I saw the Sawasi family pull in on their trike, oh i was SO HAPPY!!! So we were up to 9... We thought well we didn't get the goal, but it is still a SUPER SOLID day, with lots of investigators at church. Then while singing the sacrament hymn, in walks an inactive sister with 5 family members with her. We didn't know them so we asked who they were and those 5 with the sister were not members pala. So we taught them after church and they are really awesome, the lesson was super spiritual!! 9+5=14!!! We had hit our goal, I know it was because of prayer, prayer is so powerful, and I am so thankful for all of our investigators and their faith to come to church. It was also the VERY MOST church attendance yesterday in my whole time here in Palayan City at 124. Sacrament meeting was so exciting and happy, because basically all the chairs were filled, and i especially felt the spirit when we sand Love at Home for the closing hymn, it was powerful & miracle filled church meeting!!!

D' Day of Miracles yesterday was not over just there. So last week I told you about Bernard, and how he was struggling so much because of his wife leaving with his kids. Then we blessed him, and he felt very at peace, him having HUGE faith in the blessing and the power of the Priesthood, which he has come to know through prayer that the Priesthood is real and true. So I believe because of his faith, and everything he is doing right now to follow Christ, a Miracle happened. His wife finally contacted him for the first time in over a month, she wants to come back to him, the plan was February 10 at first, then it moved up to February 6, and now she is coming back tomorrow:) He is SOOO excited to see his wife and kids again. He also told us yesterday "Magpapabinyag ako!!" Or i will be baptized!! Then he said and "I will bring my wife to church too!!" Miracles are real, I know that for a fact, this is God's work, and his hands are all over it. Bernard is changing, and yes he may not be ready yet to be baptized, but he is getting there, and he is happy now because he is following Christ. The miracles of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ are incomparable talaga...

I feel like this whole week was all about Families, kinda like a Family Week. We have been teaching lots of families lately and it is seriously the best ever, its so much more spiritual when you can teach an entire family, and tell them about how they can be an eternal family. So we had another miracle about families. So on Saturday morning while planning for the day, i wrote in my planner on the ToDo List: #FINDFAMILYTOGOTOTEMPLEIN2019 because for some reason me and my companion like to write lots of stuff in the ToDo List that are funny and push us to work harder. So we walked basically the whole morning and then i remembered a place i had seen close to our focus area that i have never been to. So i told Elder Guia that is where the family is that is going to the temple in 2019. So we OYM'd a couple people with really no interest in what we said. Then we saw a couple making rugs in front of their house, so we talked to them, taught them about God's plan for them to be an eternal family, we are teaching them again later at 6:00. So idk if it is just a coincidence that they were the famliy we found on the day we made that goal or not, but I believe it is part of God's plan as well, cuz its all part of the plan:)

So as you can tell its been an awesome week!!! I was just super excited to tell you about it all this week;) so there you go another long email... hahaha

Palayan is an awesome place, and we are really happy here!

Hopefully i don't leave this place this week with Transfers...:(

Oh and also don't forget, "A verse a day keeps Satan away" its from my companion Elder Guia:)

Love ya'll!!!

Elder Alldredge