" Nourish ourselves with the word of God"

Man this week was a good one! the weeks are flying by and by the time i sit down to write you guys an email i can't remember what happened! But i'll do my best to remember! so we started out good we had a lot of lessons and i was praying hard that we would have a lot of less actives at church and the lord sent down his many tender mercies and we were able to see the fruits of our labors! we had a bunch come and it was really good to see! This week is some of the lessons we could feel the spirit so strong and we knew we were working through the spirit! It was just one of those weeks where we just seemed to get the work done! it was a great feeling coming home and being exhausted because we had had a good days work! I'm really learning alot about life and how this gospel really helps us. i remember at home i think i was just going through the motions doing this and that but one thing so valuable that i've learned so far is that when we really devote ourselves to the gospel and put Christ first in our lives it makes all the difference! I was pondering this week how we can help some of our members return and help them realize they need the gospel. "what is it going to take to help them understand?" well we just have to nourish them with the good word of God. and that goes for all of us we all need to nourish ourselves with the Good word of God! I promise it will make all the difference in our lives! So this week was good, we had fun and got the work done! The spirit truly guided us this week and it was necessary for us to have a good. I'm really just loving the mission right now and things are going good! i'm trying really hard to remember what else happened and i'm drawing a blank! sorry this is so short! but today for Pday is way cool because in my area in bauang there is nothing there so we got to come back to baguio for pday! its like coming home! so thats fun! we had some run ins with some people that just wanted to argue with us and thats always annoying! but one cool experience i just remember is we were walking home one night and this guy drove past us on his scooter then hurried and turned around and i thought oh great this guy just wants to argue with us! but i was completly wrong! he asked us if we had a book that he could read!!!!!! oh man we were like oh of course we do! and gave him a book of mormon and he was way excited! so it was just a reminder that heavenly father is preparing these people to here the gospel! I love you guys and hope everything is going well for you! Talk to you next week! Elder Machen