Sister Brittany Robertson: Week 69 - I love missionary work!

This week was an absolutely crazy week but full of miracles as well! I just love the mission cause I just constantly get to witness people coming to know their Savior and helping people to make sacred covenants with their Father in Heaven. Is there any better calling? Not in my opinion.

This week was the Baptism and Confirmation of the sweetest Alemania family. I will include their conversion story below for your happiness and for the record:

The Alemania family was one of the most prepared families I have ever taught on my mission. From the second we found them to the days they got baptized and confirmed, miracles were flowing in on all sides. The day we found them was in of itself a miracle. Sister Baczuk and I went to teach and Nanay and Tatay we had been teaching for awhile. but this time they were acting different. They had been trying to come to church for awhile now but just never followed through. The tatay actually hid from us that day and pretended he wasn't home. So while we were sitting down with the nanay about to teach her, we saw a head peek out from the back. There was a woman that was cooking in the back that heard our voices and recognized us as missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ. She was shy though so she would not come out in front of us. She stayed behind the wall cooking until we finally got her talking with us and then slowly she came closer and closer until she asked the question of why coffee isn't allowed in our church.

I asked if we could pray before we shared to her why and she excitedly agreed and sat down in our lesson. We taught her and it was an amazing lesson. She was speaking straight Tagalog so it's a good thing I understood it or else no one would have. She understood everything more than most people ever had my whole mission. She soon opened up to us that they were actually weeks away from being baptized a while ago but then she moved to IloIlo and lost contact with the missionaries. She also told us that her husband had died a few years back and she never really got back in contact with the church. She, then, asked about tithing so we gave her a pamphlet to read and set a return appointment. And if that all wasn't a miracle in of itself, 5 minutes after we left that appointment, we received a text from a member here saying, "When are you guys going back to Remedios because you need to go there soon because there is a woman named Mary Vic that wants to be taught." And that was the woman we had just 5 minutes earlier, met and taught. What a miracle. Every lesson after that was like a treat to us. She kept every single one of her commitments we gave to her and read every pamphlet we gave to her and understood it all. She basically taught herself. We absolutely loved teaching Mary Vic.

We soon met her two daughters that were just as shy at first but just as interested. They both talked about wanting to get baptized before we even mentioned it to them. They were so prepared. We invited them to pray about Joseph Smith and Russell M. Nelson and they prayed 3 times before they received their miracle of an answer from heaven. They kept trying until they felt that they were 100% sure that they were true prophets of God. Mary Vic got really sick the week she was praying about it but then miraculously healed because of her faith and was able to come to church for the first time even though she should've been at home resting, but she promised God that if she could work the Saturday before, if she could heal from her sickness so that she could work, she would go to church on Sunday no matter how sick she was. Well, she was healed and she kept that promise. And from that day forward, they have known that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the one true church on the earth. Mary Vic bore the sweetest testimony at her baptism and cried the entire time as she expressed how grateful she was that she found the truth and that one day they can be sealed together as a family in the temple. She loves the gospel and so do Via and Queen, her two daughters. Her oldest daughter has plans to be baptized in December as well. The Alemania family is proof that the field is white, already to harvest. We love them so much.

For other news, we got to teach a girl named Angelica that was a referral but she is very much like Mary Vic. She read the entire Plan of Salvation pamphlet and summarized the ENTIRE thing to us in one sitting. She is remarkable and not to get anyone's hopes up, but she could very likely be a baptism I have right before I go home. She is super elect and is an earnest seeker of truth. I love missionary work more than words can describe. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ because it is true. There is nothing more truer in the whole world. There is nothing better than being a full time missionary for the church that Jesus Christ himself established!! Life is happy and life is good.

Sister Robertson

you don't see this in america thats for sure