From the Philippines to You!! February 21, 2016

Hello po. Family and friends! How was everyone’s week? I hope it was splendid and you are all happy and healthy. Guess what I shook hands with an Apostle!! Elder Russel M. Nelson! Oh my goodness it was such an incredible experience. I will never forget that day and that spirit that i felt listening to a servant of the Lord. The entire ageless mission gathered together in Tarlac. I think there was about 230 of us missionaries, which is pretty big i think. (On a side note- we had to travel 2 hours by an open window bus, they told all the missionaries to come looking your best haha i don’t know how well we did with that because we all had crazy hair and were all wind blown haha, but thats okay because I was able to see some Philippines country and rice feilds finally! Oh my goodness it was so pretty) any way, We each got to shake hands with him, his wife, elder Bowen ( the area 70) and the mission president and his wife.  As i shook hands with him i was taken away by his eyes, holy cow they are the bluest eyes ive ever seen! They were like the color of the ocean in Cancun. He looks a lot older in person, he has the cutest wrinkled face, i didn’t realize he is so old, 92 years old! I loved watching all his little moments; he is just like a normal person, like a cute old grandpa. When he sat down he took off his suit coat and just sat very comfortably in his chair. There was such an incredible power in that room, I knew he is a prophet of God, there was no denying it. All of the people we shook hands with, spoke to us. It was incredible of course. It was of course about missionary work, but by the time we were done it had all been about eternal marriage and families. That goes to show just how important our families are to our heavenly father. I know that we are able to be with our families not just in this life but for ETERNITY              , if we follow our Heavenly father and his son Jesus Christ. At the end of the meeting he sent us missionaries on our way, with a powerful blessing. He prayed for our safety and our success and some really powerful things, don’t worry i wrote everything down because of this incredible and rare opportunity. As he was doing so, it remained me of my great grandpa who would always do the same thing at the end of each family reunion. I am just remained how blessed i am with this gospel. “ I have been given so much so i too must give”.

Other then that awesome once in a life time opportunity not much happened that was too different from the other days haha but I still am loving it here and meeting all these wonderful people.

I hope you all have such a wonderful week knowing that i love and appreciate you all so much! Thank you for all the prayers for the missionaries and the work here.

I sister Evans love you all sooooooo much!