Lingsat!!
This week I was transferred back to Lingsat!! I love my two
companions – Sister Tanon and Sister Jenson.
They love their work and they love the people. I will miss working with Sister Black. She was an incredible companion. She is so wise and knows how to do this work. What she says is inspired. She has a wonderful testimony of the
Atonement and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Right now I am grateful to have gotten to participate in the
work here in Lingsat. We have some truly great investigators here. Sister
Vergara is 100% ready to make the covenant of baptism and has truly been
converted and changed. She is a bright light to her family -- inspiring her
father and husband to come to church, and we are now teaching her nephews. She
has a large family and we are really excited to teach them about what has
changed her life.
The biggest blessing that I received this week though was
that Sister Tobias and I used to teach a young couple, KC and Jarwin, in
Bauang. They were so receptive of the gospel because they had lost their baby
and they never forgot what we told them in Moroni 8 about the celestial
kingdom. That is what they want as a family. They accepted to be baptized the
very day we met them. But a few weeks
later one night Sister Tobias and I went to teach them and they were gone. They
had been forced to move because of a family problem and had been very hurt. We
were completely shocked but referred them to the missionaries in Lingsat right
away. Sister Tanon and Sister Jensen went to see her right away but she was so
sad that she just felt like she couldn't listen to the missionaries. But the
very day that I transferred here we decided to go and see them again. It was
divine design. Jarwin happened to be home from work that day early and they let
us in for the first time in months. We taught them and were impressed to re-extend
their baptismal date. They accepted again and came to church together! We were
so overjoyed! Even though Brother Jarwin was sick that day, he still stayed for
all 3 hours of church. They were really shy but we have high hopes for them.
That was a big deal for me because I was so sad when they moved and we couldn't
teach them. But God has a bigger and better plan than we know.
Love,
Sister Porter
