Kumusta kayong lahat!
Dont have choke time but, a great week as a missionary. Think so I struggle more and more every week, and I absolutely love it. Get up at 5 everyday and have a great personal study, to start everyday. I love the Lord, I love the work.
This week was full of miracles for sure. One being the Gift of Tongues, theres no logical explanation for the almost instant improvement of language that came with becoming a trainer. Elder Kapunan is an awesome Elder, and can hardly understand or speak English. The change from being a trainee to a trainer was difficult, especially in a new language, but the Lord qualified me to do such; leading and teaching whole lessons in Tagalog, and understanding and answering peoples questions and insights, every day were miracles that Ive witnessed daily this past week.
The experience I want to talk about happened yeeeaaars ago, as a child one day talking to my beautiful grandma, Mona Emiko Ishibashi, in a car ride. I don't remember where we were going, or if shell remember this, but its one I remembered this past week. While driving, I asked grandma if I could ask her a question about the Church, and of course as a child could not comprehend, or wrap my head around the fact of the idea, that there is no end, and there is no beginning. Why? I asked my beautiful, wise, grandma, in which she answered, phrased differently, theres some things that we will never understand, and just have to trust, and wait until we are able to ask the Lord ourselves. Grandmas version of 1 Nephi 11:17, straight up.
17 And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things
This simple answer, given by my loving grandma, will answer ANY question we have. Why do only I have this struggle? Why did Church history happen this way? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why is life hard? And the millions of questions that we ask ourselves, every minute of the day. Even if life is difficult, confusing, complicated, and filled with variables, theres one truth that we can depend on and know is true, one foundation that we know, if we build on we cannot fall, our Father in Heaven loves his children so much. As we continue to think celestial, any problem, conflict, or sudden variable, is answered by the simple truth that God loves us, and one day if we dont understand, as we continue to endure to the end, ask for ourselves.
Love and miss you grandma, thank you for making the choice everyday to raise your family up to the Lord, through such generations have been blessed, and THAT is just one of the million motivations I have to bring the people here, to the truth and light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ito ay totoo talaga. Wala akong alinlangan. Alam ko po na mahal na mahal tayo ng Diyos, isang simple na katotohanan, pero malakas sa ibig sabihin.
I know that God loves me, and know that he loves you. I know its the most irritating thing to hear, when we struggle if someone says God loves you. Trahs I understand, but Ive come to realize and I truly testify that there is a not a truer or more powerful reminder to get or give, than just that. JAHS TRAHS!
ELDER ISHIBASHI
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