Oh my family!!! Another week gone by.
We went to the temple today, which was awesome. I haven't been since august so
it felt so fulfilling. Love it. One of the perks of being in the city, right :)
About the clothes being made in Mindoro, I left the material there and
hopefully (as in seriously hopefully!) she finished them and sent them up with
president this last Saturday after Mindoro's zone conference. I went shopping
at the mall today too. It's officially decided. I hate malls. I hate shopping.
All it does is make you want all this stuff that you don't need and i just
wanna go sit on my kawayan floor in a Philippino shack to remind me none of
that matters. It's slowly breaking me in for sure so I'm not in complete shock
in the states though. Good news though, I bought 4 pairs of shoes today! For a
total of about 40 dollars. Haha, love it. I felt like pretty woman with all
these service ladies bringing shoes to me. ahah. You think I'm kidding, but the
service in the Philippines is pretty much top notch. But SO excited to get my
hair cut!! Thanks for making the appointment ma :) Mom, I really don't think
you need to worry about the ear. I've gotten this awesome cold this week that's
just been draining everything out. Truly, don't waste the money. I'm pretty
sure it's ok now.
Thank you for the packages! I loved
the letters. They're always my favorite, of course. I think Tyler’s was the
most funny, but that's no surprise. And the milk. I've already drank half of
it. Haha, and I don't feel a bit bad. And the countdown Joan sent was so
stinking cute. We've been loving it. You guys are the greatest.
Ryan's new ward sounds about like the
entire Philippines. Haha, welcome to my entire mission. Maybe he's starting to
see now why it'll be super important to make sure all his investigators are
strong with their testimonies and that they're getting baptized for the right
reasons, because sometimes, the wards can't hold on to them. Their testimony is
the only thing that'll keep them going.
I don't have a ton of updates, so I'm
just gonna spill out whatever comes off the top of my head.
We have a sweet new investigator
right now. He's a Baptist pastor and understands the atonement and other
doctrine better than most members. Wowsa. He even asked us if we believe that Christ
went and taught the spirits in the spirit world for the 3 days he was dead. And
that there are actually 2 kind of deaths, a temporal death and a spiritual
death. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit it was a spiritual death, not temporal,
because they became separated from God. What the?! Next lesson is the
apostacy.
I talked to a few of my fellow
Mindorians at the temple today....we're all missing Mindoro. Elder Quinton was
hilarious. He goes, "Just kill me. Seriously. You're so lucky you're just
going home. I told president, just to drag my face to the box back in Mindoro.
I'm trying to figure out a way to get emergency transferred that isn't too
disobedient". Bahaha, I laughed so hard. So apparently it's not just
me.
I've been super lucky to be here for
the last few weeks. Like I said, there was a greater purpose in this and it was
all for me. Just to help me out. I don't feel sad anymore, upset, nothing. All
I feel is gratitude. And I love Sister Lorente. She told the ward her
"twin" finally made it back to the main land. Haha. Pretty much every
night I go over to their apartment and we just sit and talk to 10:30. She is my
blood sister, I swear, even if we're different colors.
For Christmas, I think I'll just call
you. It's cheaper that way. I'll probably call around 7 am here I think,
so like 4 pm there. Will that be ok? Hope so. And Yay, there's SNOW!!!! Just
praying it's stay and gets added to. Love you all and talk to you soon! Have a
fab week!