SOBRANG MARAMING BATA!

December 16, 2019

Solid week, thanks for asking!

Quick update on the sketchy guy from Ghana: He was texting us throughout the week and he told us that, "By God's grace, I found an apartment, but now I need you to put your heads together and come up with 5k pesos." Smells like a scam...

The Muyot kids got baptized on Saturday, and the mom attended and had a good time! She's our next target! Elder Smith and I celebrated with some pancakes at McDo. We ordered and sat down because the place was packed. Then these missionaries from a different religion, or I guess they were just "missionaries" because they didn't have any religious affiliation, came and sat next to us. They actually spoke super good English. We started talking for a bit while we ate pancakes, as they were saying a lot of stuff that was in agreement with the Church's beliefs. But then they started going a little crazy, talking about how we have to allow God to literally enter our bodies, by preparing our systems to breathe him in?? Then they told us we have to say "LORD JESUS, I BELIEVE!" to let him in. Then they started shouting it over and over again so loud, while trying to get us to join in. *Takes a big bite of pancake*, "Sorry mouth is full..." They pulled out their phone and tried to record us saying it personally, and that was where I drew the line. I politely chimed in and gave them props for what they're doing and their beliefs, and then I asked if I could share a little about our church in return. 

At that moment the Muyot family, that just got baptized, happened to walk into McDo's, so I talked to our new missionary friends about how the spirit confirmed the truthfulness of what I'm doing, while I baptized the members of the Muyot family, and told them about how close I've been able to draw to the Savior, especially through the Book of Mormon. I continued my testimony by sharing that I have no doubt that this is Jesus Christ's church. After I said that they stopped teaching us, asked to take a selfie with us, and then left haha.

Okay, so something funny happened the other day. We went to a return appointment with this lady that a member told us about and when we got there, she was having a one lady party. She was booming some videoke, which is simply, karaoke in the streets. After she finished, she invited us in and told us to wait a second, because she was gonna get the kids. She then proceeds to invite everyone in the whole area! Lines of people and kids just filed in and packed into her house. One member counted 33, but more kept coming. We then turned to King Benjamin and 
preached some sermons haha! We stood up, and just hit these kids with the truth about the gospel. The lady we were trying to teach wasn't even there!! We got a pretty funny laugh out of it.

Other than that, pretty normal stuff. Area is progressing well! We were able to extend baptismal invitations to 2 different families last night :))