"Church Outside?"

it was great to get your letters this week! i was so excited to read them! haha this week went by way to fast and man it's good being in a new area! its re-freashing! haha ok so this week was goo, i've walked more than i ever have in my entire life and we did some good work this week! the area im in is small but big at the same time because it's so spread across! so we do a lot of walking cause sometimes transportation isn't around haha i think we calculated one day we walked around 10 miles haha. good thing we are both tall americans so we can pick up the pace haha. so this week i met some of the hardest headed people of my life haha. working with the less actives is something else sometimes cause they know the truth they just do as the scriptures say, "openly rebel against god" we did are best to help them realize the importance and we had spiritual powerful lessons this week, it was an eye opener to me of how much the spirit is there and i know they felt it as well. i learned alot this week from the book of mormon, something that really made me think, so of course i have a challenge for you! you need to read helaman. the whole book, and count how many times they use or reference the word HEART. it will be amazing to you and the things you'll learn! so next week let me know what you guys think of it and what you learn!, while you read think of these 3 questions, "who has my heart?" "where is my heart?" "what do i allow INTO my heart?" ok so some stuff that happened this week oh where to begin, well yesterday was a first for me, like i said earlier our area is so spread out that some people can't make it to church in the town so what they do is they have a thing called the "group" the 2nd counsler has this house that he built in a tree, it's the most impressive tree house i have ever seen! it's a 4 story tree house! well we go out there on sunday and about 20-30 people come to this group and we hold church service outside! haha it was way cool me and elder taught the primary, turns out i'm not so good with kids haha but we did our best and then we were the speakers in sacrament, there was this little poduim thing haha oh man it was way cool! it was amazing how strong the spirit dwelt there! it was a testimony builder to me that even though we didn't have a church inside a church building the spirit was there because these people know the importance of sacrament and want to worship there god. i've rarely felt the spirit so strong as i did there yesterday. the filipino people amaze me with their faith! we also were able to teach some new people this week that seem interested and i know the lord directed us to them, so i'm excited to see what's going to happen the next few days! well thats a short summary of a great week that we had, i wish i could say everything, everystory haha theres so much that goes on that i don't have time to mention. just know i am loving it and love you! nagmamahal elder machen