"RUN!" Feb 10,2013

well you guys contiue to be awesome and i love you for all you do to and for me! the title i choose today came from a experience we had just last p-day. so we were walking down this dark street and we were turning right and i know there was this dog at this house that sometimes chased us so i pushed elder mortel to the side of the road and good thing i did cause this big dog came b-lining for us, so i did what i usually do when dogs run at us, i turned and ran at it, trying to chase it away, well this big puppy was not buying it! it hesitated for a sec and they came at me full speed! i pushed elder again and said run!!!!! haha we took off and i felt the dog nip my shoe, i dont want you to worry cause this is the cool part of the story, so as we were running down this street another dog thought it would be fun to join the chase, so imagine this, to missionaries, one american and filipino booking it down this street with two big dogs behind them hahaha, i was just waiting to feel one bite into my calf, but just as i felt it nick my shoe its like someone pushed us or something cause both elder and i took off! we left these two dogs in the dust and they stopped chasing us. i know it was guidance from our heavenly father cause i have never ran so fast in my life hahah. it left us thankful and laughing at what just happened. good times good times. other than that this week was amazing, filled with many blessings from the lord! we had zone interviews with president and it was so great! he gave me a lot of advice and we had a good talk! he was asking me what my plans where for when i get home and stuff and gave me some great advice. it was great. we had some great things happen with our investigators that is really exciting. we have one brother jr. he is 22 and is a stud! he bore a powerful testimony about reading and praying about the book of mormon. we asked him if he had read it and prayed bout it. he said yes and so i asked him, how do you feel about it? he looks at me straight in the eye and says its true, its true. the church is true, it was such a powerful moment and i couldnt help but smile and say yes it is true! We were supposed to have a baptism this saturday but it got postponed because she has no support at home, he dad is a la and mom is a member of a different church here called iglesia ni cristo. they arent allowed to listen to other religions so its kind of frusturating but we will do our best. so much happened this week and it was really neat to be a part of it! i love you guys. mahal kita Elder Machen