Online Missionary Work

(Note: The following post was written by Alexander Barton, a full-time missionary serving in the Tennessee Nashville Mission.)

I've been called to labor in the Tennessee Nashville Mission, but I'm touching the lives of people in faraway places like Australia, China, Germany, the Philippines, Russia and Spain.

How? Because I'm engaged in online missionary work as part of a pilot program introduced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I use tools like Facebook and Blogger to broadcast the joyful message of the restored gospel.

Though the online environment is different in many ways from standard missionary work, the doctrines we teach are still the same. We still want others to come unto Christ through faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. But instead of teaching one person at a time, the Internet allows us to share our message with thousands of people around the world.

50 Year Jubilee in the Philippines

Dear Family,

I love you all

Last Thursday our bishopric sprung for a ride to temple tours with our investigators.  It turned out to be a moving type van with some plastic chairs in the back.  When the driver hit the break hard we all slide around and the back was wide open we all laughed the whole way there.

Oh boy our investigators took some work to get them ready for their baptism this past Sunday.  We were blessed though with 4 baptisms.  Just opened the area and already 4 baptisms that really is a miracle.  James Brian Vloso, Rochelle Latoga, Mirryl latoga, and Riza Latoga.  Sister Rochelle, and Mirryl like to kuyog us to lessons and they are growing in their testimony. 

We participated in the 50 year jubilee here in the Philippines it was pretty lagit.  The youth and Single Adults worked so hard to prepare for the presentation.  On 21 May 2011 we took part in the Jubilee presentation.  We didn't do much just walked turned around and smile at the camera you should look and see if its on YouTube or something look for Manduae Jubilee or something haha.  The elders though did a whole act like a death march thing where Elder Ashdown and two other elders got shot for drinking water because it wasnt allowed and Brother George so the guards were like Nazis and would shot you in you rested or drank water or fell down.  Elder Fausterilla was hilarious I wish I could have gotten a movie of it.  But they filmed the whole presentation so hopefully I can see it again someday. 

Four Baptisms in Marigondon

Dear Family!

Work here in Marigondon is an adventure.  We went to the Manduae stake center at the request of the person in charge of jubilee.  They want us now to participate in the program.  We actually would just rather go to watch and take pictures, but its also cool that we have to chance to participate now.

We are not familiar with Mandaue so when we were going home we took the wrong Dyipney and had a mini adventure.  The adventure was fun but it hurt the pocket book.

We have four baptisms this coming Sunday which is a miracle since we just opened the area, and for this I am grateful.  Rochelle Latoga, Mirryl Latoga, Rizza Latoga, and James Brian Alphanta are getting baptized may 21, 2011.  We are really excited.

We were going to play volleyball this morning, but it was sprinkling, and here in the Philippines if its raining you will get sick if you get your head wet for too long.  So we just went home.

Transfers are coming in one week and Sister Falculan and I don't expect to be transfered.

Our investigator Randy came to church with his friend Leo we didn't expect them to come, but it was a welcomed surprise!

Working hard!

I forgot my camera cord this week so send pictures next week.

Love you all
Nahigugma ko kaninyo

Sister Bruno

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