I got transferred again! I'm
in La Carlota 2nd Branch now! I'll be in a trio with SISTER NANLABI for
the next few days and on Thursday I'm picking up my new trainee!! Super
exciting stuff. Sister Nanlabi and I screamed for joy when we found out
we were going to be sharing a branch and a house :) This is her last 6
weeks. I'm really really sad to be leaving Bacolod 2nd. Last transfer
was the most successful miracle filled transfer ever. We were just blown
away every single week. God is so good.
Caleb! I'm near the volcano! I'll try to take a good picture this week and send it to you!
This was another miracle filled week!
So
I think 3 weeks ago I emailed that we found a family from pumping their
water. Well we found out they're old time friends with a recent convert
couple who were baptized in March w/ Sister Schenk- Dan & Gamay. So
now they've been coming with us to all the lessons to the Jara family
and it's been so great and helpful and this Sunday the whole family came
to church!! Even though it was crazy raining and half our area flooded
they still came! The dad didn't come because he had to work but he was
the one who brought the rest of the family to church so we have hope! It
was so cool. Their kids are 22, 19, 17, & 8 and they were all there
and loved it. We've taught them the Plan of Salvation and the
Restoration now and they're keeping the commitments and I'm so super
excited for them.
Kenneth and Sergio are
getting baptized this Saturday! They both passed their interviews and
are super excited. They're also both the last member in their family to
be baptized and both families have plans to be sealed in the temple next
year! Sergio has one 5 year old son too who hasn't been baptized but
other than that their families are complete! So exciting.
Jeffery
is my hero and best friend. This week we made short jokes to each other
for like 20 minutes. I think he's 4'9" haha The best one was he said
it's okay if we fall because the ground is so close it won't hurt. Ahay
I'm really going to miss him. Sister Christensen and I called him our
son. He's such a good example and he's doing what's right even when all
his friends want to be wild and party and drink he just leaves and goes
to sell buko pie or hides in the house and reads the Book of Mormon. I'm
pretty sure he's an angel sent from heaven. He's doing everything he
can to turn his life around it's so awesome. He has a goal to be ready
for baptism in 5 weeks! Right now we're looking at September 7th or 14th
for him. ALL THIS FROM A PASS ALONG CARD! I'm still so shook. Jeffery
was another 1 of 30 people that actually made it to church this Sunday
despite the crazy rain and floods. So proud of him.
Here's
the funniest story of my life- So Kenneth read 1 Nephi 8 for his
reading assignment about Lehi's dream and he was explaining what he
learned for us and he said yeah then there was people that got lost in
the darkness they went to Mexico. whahahhahaha. I thought Sister
Christensen and I were going to die laughing. His mom was looking at us
like we were crazy hahaha.
I went to Silay
West this week for exchanges with Sister Batalla! My last exchange as an
STL :) We met lots of new people and I learned a ton from her. They're
having a lot of success in their area right now. I'm really grateful for
my time as a Sister Training Leader and all the different areas and
people I got to see and the blessing to get to know so many sisters and
to stretch and grow and learn how to train and solve problems and really
be humbled and rely on the Spirit every time. I learned and grew and
changed so much. I'm excited for this next adventure to train a new
missionary again and white wash and area and be in a branch! yay my
first branch
I took 9000 pictures this week so there might be a few follow up emails with just pictures.
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