Testimony of the Savior

We have been kind of slow this week. My anak has been kind of sick and everyone has been preparing for the festival of the corn harvest. The BACAO Festival here in Echage is the only place in the world that speaks Yogad so BACAO is Corn in Yogad. In Tagalog it is the same as Spanish. mias. Also there is a lot of corn here but also rice. During the harvest seasons in Isabella (the highest rice producing Provence of the Philippines) they put up scarecrows everywhere on the streets. 

Highlights; Got Tatay Jarmillo to open up to us about why he doesn't go to church. A lot of people are shy of what others think, but in the end it doesn't matter. We shared with him 2Nephi 8:7-8 about only caring what God thinks. He liked it and asked us for help to get his family go back to church. 

Gave nanay Marifel a Book of Mormon and she Cried so hard. Her church sells the bible for so much and she could never afford it. She just wanted it to teach her kids. We give out the word of God for free WHAT! ya we are cool. It was so sweet though. 

Mark Bambalan, only drinks when there is a party and others are, but he had a little too much for one party and so he went to the doctor and the doctor told him no more coffee no more alcohol. hhahahah then we came and told him that’s ok because that is a commandment from God, though Joseph Smith (a prophet that he has a big testimony of, he really relates)  and a commandment from your Doctor. So will you follow it? hahah 

Saturday: the RS party that we were invited to we came watched them perform and ate the food and watched the fashion show. It was fun. (I don't think we will watch that broadcast for RS, I haven't heard anything really about it.)

Sunday: no one in church BACAO Festival. There was a parade and shows and performances. We got punted but it was still good. We got 3 lessons. 

Today: woke up, watched the parade of the BACAO Festival and some of the street dances but then had to leave. We watched our Recent Convert Dance it was fun. 

Testimony of the Savior. Tagapaglitas natin. He is our Kuyah (older brother). I think of him like the older brother that has to help us with our math homework when our parents are on a date or vacation. He knows all the answers because he has had that class already and now it is up to us to ask for his help (he won't force us to use his Atonement). And when we do he helps us learn and doesn't just give us all the answers. But he is always there and when we just need to throw down the pencil and cry "this math is so freakin' hard!" he is there to help, to encourage, and if we continue we learn and get an A in our Math Test.  Our parents are super happy with us. But if we don't ask for his help we don't learn that much, get a bad grade and even though our Parents will always love us. We might not want to be in their presence because we know we disappointed them. And we are mad at ourselves because we didn't use the help that was there for us the whole time. So use the Atonement, make mistakes and learn from them and remember that you always have help. And in the end you will look at Heavenly Father and say 'yes I tried my hardest to do all that you wanted me to do." 

Relief Society Birthday Party

It was a Hawaiian theme.

Yay!  Hawaii in the Philippines!

Scarecrow Festival

Corn Festival