Dear family, friends, and whatever creepy ppl that could be mysteriously following my blog...? jokelang ;)
Hello po sa inyong lahat! Magandang hapon po! Wow, that was exhausting. :) jokelang ulit.
k sorry down to business. your letter is CRACKING ME UP, Mom!!! i LOVE how funny our family is! thank you for telling me about sap--however irreverent :) heheheehhahahahahah i love y'all. loads and loads. and i'll join in the fun in 14ish months. you're all so super awesome. love yer guts.
so here's my life as a missionary right now. i am sorry that i haven't been saying much about that. thank you, aaron, very very much for mentioning that you'd like to hear more about the ppl we're teaching and everything like that--the work and what i'm doing here. i truly appreciate it. and it's made me appreciate being here more this week, especially as i watched sister gupta finish out the end of her mission. gosh, i love that woman.
okay, so i cried. and i don't think i'm done. i killed off my nay and now she's in the mission home and flies home to india wednesday. the hardest part is having no idea when i'll see her again. at least i know i'll be able to arrange seeing sister wight. there's a deep bond that comes with your first of things... first companion in the field and area are some of these. i want to die in this area. (they say you're born where you start your mission and die where you end.) i hope i get to come back when i can really truly communicate with these people. i want them to know how much i love them and the gospel. i want to be bolder and stronger and more filled with love. geez, this work is great. it really is. i love it SOOOOO much!!!
it was a crazy week, everyone! we had a temple day with a few zones, like we do every month, on wednesday, so attending the first session means getting up really early and cutting into your studies. and then we had temple tour on saturday morning, which means getting up early again, but we also got to take an investigator with us! he was great. but he's really scared of baptism. he wants to know everything... which none of us know... :) but he'll get there. he'll learn all he needs to know if he truly searches. he's only 22 and i'm so grateful and pleased to announce that what started out as interest because of his girlfriend, who is a member, has now turned to sincere desire to know. and that's where it starts! yippeee! he needs some time, but he'll come around :)
also, we have some less-active members who have been coming more frequently :) they're super cool. i love them. they live on so little. they actually have a store right next to where we live, so we see them pretty much every single day. Nanay works so hard. she's amazing and she loves her kids so much. and their oldest daughter wants to serve a mission so much. she's great.
we had fhe with a family last night who also has their share of struggles. but they bore powerful testimony. they have such faith in Christ and His gospel. He does take care of them. He is so aware of us. I know He is.
Most excitingly, this week we had.... A BAPTISM!!! The first in Makati 3rd ward since... 7 or so months ago, yata. It was my first and Sis G's last--and we taught her together from the very beginning, so I got to really see her progress! You know, she knows this Church makes her happy and that what we teach is true. She also took a big leap of faith in her decision to be baptized. But it is difficult, because she is removed from her family for her job, she's a single mother, and her children are all Catholic. She is a strong woman. I have high hopes for her. She has a strong belief in and desire to follow Jesus Christ and His teachings. And I hope to set up a strong support system for her with my new companion. I hope to do a lot of things this transfer. I want to be more like the Assistants. they are such fantastic missionaries. i respect them so much. And to add to the coolness and craziness, President and Sister Stucki came!!! and i sang! aaah! haha but everyone was so sweet about it.
i have a temporary companion now, sister verma. she rocks :) taga india din siya. transfer day is usually wed but actually thurs this time for some reason. we're in sis verma's area til then and i'll meet my new companion.
oh! and we held a missionary fireside the third hour of church yesterday. super cool! we felt good about it. i hope to see the effects of that in the ward. i felt guilty coz i spoke mostly in english, but i really tried to follow the spirit. i gained some amazing insights. it was a big blessing.
i gotta run. i love you all dearly!
this is the Lord's work. it is the best work. it is the only work to be done in all the world.
thanks for the hymn, mommy
love, sis r
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