New Beginnings

Today they had a district wide New Beginnings activity and they asked Sister Gwilliam to be their special guest speaker. She spoke on the new theme " Stand Ye in Holy Places" and did a really good job except for the parts where she lied to the girls and told them what a good guy I am. She certainly is a good woman and I really love her. They also asked me to speak at the end because President Pipit was away because his daughter was giving birth to a new baby boy. Following New Beginnings they held a leadership meeting and then we watched a broadcast from the Area Presidency on their goals for the Philippines for 2013. It was really good and their talks were really inspiring. I wasn't able to write fast enough to get it all down but they sent out packages to each unit with the goals. We made good progress last year bringing over 4000 less active people back into activity but there still is lots of work to do.