Life Events

Funeral

last friday like i told you me and another sister missionary sister in our branch were assigned to speak at a feuneral service for a guy we had never met. it was alright we just talked about the plan of salvation. haha most of the people there are not members but that didn't stop us from using the BOM, Dand C, and Pearl of Great price. haha!

Baptism

then on saturday we had a baptism. the sisters in the other branch were the ones to teach him because he was always at his girlfriends house in his area. it was only just before i interviewed him that they found out he lives in our area. haha. His name is Argyll. he is about 18 and super awesome. haha we taught him yesterday about the priesthood and about missionary work. we asked him if he wants to serve a mission. we were worried that he wouldn't because he is studying and has a girlfriend also he is the only member in his family who did not support his desicion to be baptised. but all he said was i just need to prepare a little more!!! haha! he totally wants too! he just dosn't feel qualified yet, wich is fine because he just got baptised. haha. we are going to have him fellowship with us as much as he can! he is super humble and sincere!

Transferred

Also we found out about transfers. Elder tanner is getting transferred to my first area in Laoag 2B! i have already told him all the people he should say hi to me for. haha. My new companion is one of elder tanners batch. he is an american, his name is Elder Hoopes. He is from Arizona. I have only heard a little about him but he seems like a cool guy. I am excited but sad that elder tanner is leaving. he is always energetic and happy. wich helped me alot whenever i felt stressed. Elder Miller will also be transfered but we aren't sure where yet.

Helping the Living and the Dead

Harder to Find

this week was fun. i have found that our area is a bit different than my past areas. we have a bit harder of a time finding and when we seem to teach people they try to bible bash with us. haha! it is  a little frustrating. haha. also this week we have dropped a majority of our investigators and we are looking for new ones. we are also trying to go to new areas that we havent gone to before, the trick is finding close enough that the investigators can afford to go to church. we have met some great people but we will see whether they run from us the next time we go there. haha.

Helping with a Funeral

this morning we had a wierd experience... last week a member in our branch died. the philippino tradition is to have the body stay in the house for 1 week for people to come and see them before they are buried. so today our branch pres. asked us if we could help dress him in his burial clothes before they closed his casket... of course we helped out. it was wierd though.... we had to lift parts of his body up and put on the white clothes.haha.

A New Investigator

this week we also started to teach the daughter of a member. she is about 30. she is really open to the gospel. she has actually been an investigator for a long time we haven't taught her for a long time because she has been really busy with her job. she believes in joseph smith but she also believes that every church is true it just depends on whatever you like. so we have been inviting her to pray to know if this is the only true church.

Eating Horse and Carnival

Eating Horse and Church For the First Time

sorry i don't have much time but i will try to write as much as possible. this week we had a lot of great lessons we also got punted more than any other week haha! i have noticed that the more our area seems to progress the harder it also becomes to proselyte. haha. the Rigucera fam(fat man) is progressing we visit them regularly. once they fed us HORSE just before we left! it was actually really good. it was like beef but super healthy and soft. aparently it horse has almost no fat in it. you should try it some time! haha! yesterday sis. rigucera, her daughter and her niece came to church. it was too bad her husband and son didnt but we were super happy that at least they came. we sat next to them in sacrament meeting. they seemed to like it, it was different for them though. we are going to keep teaching thier family we have a baptismal goal for them next month. if they continue to come to church every sunday they will be ready. But Bro. Rigucira and thier son also need to come next sunday to make the goal date.

Carnival

this week the carnival continued until yesterday. many of our investigators couldn't come to church because they were in a parade that was scheduled the same time as church.but next week they will be able to! next week is going to be awesome! we will also have more fellowshipers. this week no one could work with us. also because of the carnival.

Minivan

yesterday we had bro mark anthony work with me again. (we went on splits) he took me around in his nice shiny MINI VAN haha! i felt rich again! haha! it felt too nice almost! haha. we went out to the far area again to teach the ilocano family. they are also progressing. instead of week, when i taught then my fellowshipers(2nd councilor,EQP,and YM2ncouncilor) translated i just gave them short topics to explain. we taught the Saviors earthy ministry. the lesson quality improved and the investigators seemed to understand a lot more. at the end i was suprised when 2 of the daughters pulled out a lined sheet of paper. they had covered it in questions from what they had read in the pamphlet we left them! haha! we only had time to answer 2-3. but the questions were great! (1. why was truth lost after death of apostoles?,why is the BOM a witness of christ? why does God love us even after we sin/don't follow him? haha it was Awesome. i felt that the spirit was stronger when they started asking their questions than at any other point in the lesson.

Zoo

this morning we went to a zoo. haha it was kind of funny. they had sheep, small horses, and deer walking all around(open cages to the walk ways). the main attractions though were the Tigers, and the animal show. they basically put snakes, lizards,birds, and a wierd bear/cat on anyone who volunteered. haha.