Kumusta po kayong lahat!!
Awesome week this week, again packed with miracles, struggles, and successes. Just finished my training this week, and the Lord found it fit to go from trainee to trainer, in which I have my new companion, Elder Kapunan, from Mindanao. Awesome Elder. I am a testiment of the truthfulness of the Gift of Tongues, and of messages with the presence of the Spirit, filling my mouth with the messages that they need to hear, all Iʻm required to do is to keep it open. As my seminary teacher, brother Danny Harris, would always remind after any good thing happens, "Church is true!!", a simple truth I come to know and witness everyday here on my mission.
I love being here on my mission, because of the opportunity I have to change every aspect of my future with these two years. Uncle Herbie said "You are building a foundation upon which you will continue to build upon for the rest of eternity", and I couldnt be more excited and motivated. The night before transfer anouncements, asking the Lord to spoil the news to me already, the answer I recieved was "Watch this", the next night hearing I would be a trainer, excitement quickly turned to self evaluation, which then turned to worries, not that im not, not self confident in this... or anything.. but simply worry haha.
Alma 13:28
28 But that ye would humble yourselves before the Lord, and call on his holy name, and watch and pray continually, that ye may not be tempted above that which ye can bear, and thus be led by the Holy Spirit, becoming humble, meek, submissive, patient, full of love and all long-suffering;
29 Having faith on the Lord; having a hope that ye shall receive eternal life; having the love of God always in your hearts, that ye may be lifted up at the last day and enter into his rest.
I am inadequate. By myself? I can't do it. Ive come to realize that the idea that people think of the Lord not giving us anything that we can't bare is FALSE! In that case, why did we sin? If we could bare it all, do it all, there would be no giving into temptation. The Lord knows weʻre not perfect, and gives us these opportunities of struggle, not to see if we can do it by ourselves, but to prove to us, that with Him, with fasting and praying, with watching and calling on his name, we can get through our struggles. I know this is true, and with such I can train, because! The Lord sees fit that I can do so. Not a single doubt, not a single fear as long as I remain faithful and simply do what Lord asks me to do. Stressful but bareable, tempted, yet faithful. Alam ko na ito ay totoo.
Pinapatotohanan ko sa inyong lahat na mayroon tayong lahat mga pagsubok at pasanin na hindi nating kaya gawin sa ating sarili. Anghirap ang buhay, pfffttt alam ko iyan, makakita ako yan araw araw dito, pero iyan ay kung bakit mayroon tayo ng pagdadasal, at isang tagapagligtas, na nahihintay sa atin na ipakita ang pananampalataya natin sa kanya. Ako ay isang testimento na maaari po tayong maging matagumpay, kung magpapatuloy tayo nang kabutihan at pananampalataya kay Cristo. Sa pangalan po ng tagapagligtas natin, na si JesuCristo, Amen.
Use google translate if gotta haha.
Jahs keep going, keep pushing, trahs, and remember you CANT, do it alone and youre not asked to. Miss you all choke, but I know that this is where I have to be. Love you all, mahal na mahal ko kayong lahat.
ELDER ISHIBASHI
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