Life | Story of My Faith | MCGI

Sir, if we are able to live, if we are able to succeed in this fight, I would like to join your religion. I grew up there. Our belief there is that half Roman Catholic and half Pagan. This is our place in Benguet. Most of the people's job is to farm. After coming from the farm, what I usually do is drink. Until college, until I became a policeman. Drinking became my way of life. In 2003, I decided to get married. I became a policeman then. I also have a stable job. After our marriage, drinking became a problem. In 2017, You probably know what's happening. Marawi City was invaded by ISIS. So we have to augment our troops there, the 1st Battalion. Get ready your Crisis Response Group. You will be boarding the C-130 together with the Ilaras. I recommend Lieutenant-Colonel Malimban, sir, to lead in my behalf. Okay, very good recommendation. We became a contingent of the SAF to go to Marawi. The SAF commander was Bradrick Malimban. When we were in Marawi, I saw Sir Malimban with a unique leadership. I was amazed by him. So one time, I asked Bradrick, Sir, what is your religion? Actually, I don't know what will happen. Every time we take a break, I always look at him. He turns off the lights. Only to find out that he is praying. Until I told him, Sir, if we can live, if we can succeed in this battle, I also want to join your religion. Until God's mercy, we were saved. Immediately, I underwent indoctrination. But before that, I also told my wife that that is also the reason why she joined me. Because she really doesn't want to. But anyway, I continued to undergo indoctrination. And I just prayed, Lord, guide me in my decision-making. And since you baptized me on November 24, 2017, abruptly, I stopped drinking. So when I went home, instead of drinking with my friends, I invited them over, I cooked, and I helped them at home. My wife noticed, slowly, that her partner became like that. She appreciated it, she told me right away. And sometimes, I didn't know that I was going home, she watched Brother Ali's program. I didn't notice her, but I saw that she was watching Brother Ali. Because of COVID-19, after two days of being baptized, she went home. I found out that I was positive. My heart was heavy, because I knew that my wife came to me, and I knew that she would also be positive. And I also knew that if my wife is positive, my children will also be positive. It was really a torture for me, because I couldn't help them, I couldn't go to them, because I was also quarantined. Every day, I would pray. I would pray, Lord, help my family. After 14 days, we were almost together, they were the first ones to get stronger than me. I knew that God didn't let me down. I was in the force commander of RMP-4A. I knew that the troops would fight, because I was sure that the enemies were there. So I decided to go with them so that I could guide them. But before that, I really prayed. We climbed the mountain. I was the 18th, I was the 19th. In Intelligence, there were a lot of enemies. About 50 or less. When you entered, you would pass through two trees. When we entered, there was a fight there. Until we finished the fight, it was early in the morning, so we cleared the area. But there was no signal in the area, so I had to go up. I went up to report. Now, I was accompanied by my brother. When I was left there, when I was secured on the other side, I was accompanied there, I saw a very bright light, like a flashlight, but it was not. It was directly to us, directly to the sky, to where the fire started. I was really surprised that I knew, I knew that we were guided that night. I knew that they were waiting for us that night. That's why none of us were injured. It's really a blessing to witness that and to experience salvation. Your faith gets stronger because of what you see with your own eyes. There are things that, if we believe and are in the right direction, God will not forsake us. I always tell my colleagues, we cannot change the entire PNP organization if we cannot change our individual police force. How do you change them? Through spiritual transformation. The teachings that you follow must be right. Think about it, so that you can truly change. I am Brad Lambert Alvanzuerte, and this is the story of my faith.