The Bingham6 Missionaries: Unconditional Love--March 16, 2014

March 16, 2014

Dear Everyone,

This week has been really great! We worked a few days in our area, and we found the coolest family ever!

It is the Visto family. The father was a pioneer in the branch here, but has been inactive for quite a few years. He has 6 children. They are all mostly in their early 20s. They're such an awesome family! We found them on accident. We got a referral from a lady in our ward that lives in the same area for a different part member family. When we went down there to look for them, Brother Visto approached us and we taught their family there. It wasn't until the closing prayer that we realized it wasn't the family we thought it was. It was funny! But they are super great! They didn't come to church yesterday, be we are confident they will come this week. We have the branch involved and some people set up to make some visits to them while we are away this week. We are visiting them again later today. In our last lesson, they committed to baptism! Yay!

Another awesome investigator we have right now is brother Jenson. He committed to baptism last night! That is Sister Cindy's (who has been inactive for a long time's) husband. We had the best lesson about Joseph Smith last night than I've ever had on my mission! He had so many questions and we had the best discussion about why authority is important and how our answers really should come straight from God, and not just other people's opinions.

We went on some great exchanges in Hinungan this week. I met this cute old lady. Her name is Sister Itom. The only reason she's inactive now is because she can't walk anymore. I went in thinking that we were going to teach her a lesson, but she's definitely the one that taught us a lesson. In her prayer, she thanked Heavenly Father for sending me to her. My heart was so touched. And as we finished the lesson, she offered us a snack. She fed us Milo (it's like hot chocolate) and some bread. After we got done eating. I put her food back in her cupboard. She yelled at me not to do it, but I did anyway. As I opened her cupboard, I realized that all the food she had in her house was in my arms. I was almost so overwhelmed with this Woman's unconditional love for me, someone she didn't know, that I almost started crying on the spot. This woman showed me how I need to show my love for other people. I love this woman, and I hope I will get to see her again.

On Saturday, a couple got married in our branch, and I got asked to be the speaker. I thought it was weird that they would ask me...because I'm not married. hahaha I ended up talking about things that I learned from my companions. It was probably the most awkward talk I have given in my life. It was funny because I tried really hard to do it all in Basaya, even though I didn't know a lot of the terminology for marriage things. Then, the speaker after me, a Filipino, just did his in English.... haha because they speak English at special occasions. Whoops!

We had Zone Training Meeting this week, and we gave training about diligence and the consequences if we aren't diligent. It was really intense. I found a really great quote from President Monson though, "If you've found that you have been complacent about the work, there is no better time to start than today to change."

Sorry, this e-mail isn't super spiritual today. I'm in the middle of a ton of little Filipino boys playing video games and yelling profanities... It's a little hard to focus on the spirit...

I'm just really grateful for the atonement. I'm really grateful for the opportunities that we have everyday to improve, repent, and try harder the next day.

Have a great week! I'm so grateful for all of your support!!

Love,

Sister Bingham

Weekly Challenge: Don't be stingy with your love this week.

So Beautiful--I keep saying that!