Week 19

Hey loving family,
I'm attaching two pictures, one with the whole mission and Elder
Bednar, the other one from our Zone Conference.
This week was good.  Brother JR passed his baptismal interview
yesterday and will be baptized this coming Saturday! We also have
another investigator, Valentino who has a baptismal date for September
29th, but first he needs to be married and the plan for that is this
Wednesday.  So we're excited for him as well. There will also be a
funeral service for a member of our ward where we will be speaking, so

it will be a very busy week for us.
Our area is progressing! The ward is planning opening a sacrament
meeting in Panay for the members of our ward who can't make it to
church because of travel expenses. That will really help our work
there and helping our investigators to attend church.  Hopefully it
will continue to grow in Panay until they can have their own branch
there.  I am really excited for this.  It will probably start in
October, right after transfers, so I will probably have a lot of
responsibilities with that.  Every Sunday, I will be attending both
church meetings.  We are so happy for this because there are so many
members out there who would really love to come to church every Sunday
if they had the funds.  We are always teaching our less-active members
that God always provides a way to obey his commandments, but it is a
really big trial of their faith.  We believe that the people in Panay
are really being prepared.  They are such good people.

hmmmmm.... ano pa?
It's exciting to be so involved in the workings of the church.  I
never expected missionary work to be like this.  In all my previous
wards, I didn't realize whether or not the missionaries were very
involved or not, but we are working to help the church out here become
much more organized.  In a couple weeks, we will be giving trainings
for visiting and home teaching and for ward missionaries, and we are
always trying to help the leaders in holding meetings and everything
that they do.  The church is really coming together.  I am so grateful
to be a part of this work.  My understanding of the way the church
works is becoming much more clear.  It's really neat.
The church is true. The book is blue. So read it. :-)
I love and miss you all,
Halong!
Sister McClellan