Hello hello everyone! This week was
pretty great. I'm still adjusting and I still wake up kinda shell-shocked but
it's getting tons better. I've prayed a lot this week and i've felt the prayers
of so many loved ones! THANK YOU! i needed them this week and they really
became a strength to me. This week I committed 3 people to baptism, and we had
2 other investigators tell us incredible experiences they had with coming to
know the church is true. I am so so grateful I'm here! I've had a lot of time
to think and kinda regroup this week. And I've gotten some great advice from
everyone. I really am blessed to be here with these people. Philippinos are
really funny! They are probably the friendliest people ever. Anyone we talk to
agrees to let us share a message with them and people are just so happy here
and smiling all the time. Plus it helps that my companion and me are American.
We definitely get some creeps but for the most part, people want to talk to us.
Literally everywhere we go people say hi to us and wave and gawk at us. Its
like we're strolling down a dang red carpet or something! So funny. Probably doesn’t
help that my companion is literally the prettiest! People take sneaky pics of
us all the time...awkward. But anyway, I love the people. And the ward we are
is is so amazing. A lot of the members do so much for us. We get fed a lot and
they come out with us to most of our lessons. There are like 5 single women in
our ward who are RMs and they come with us on the daily. They are so great! And
their conversion stories have been so inspiring to me.
They are already playing Christmas
music here! CRAZY! But it's cool...they play a lot of Buble. kinda funny. My
companion has introduced me to her snacking ways in the peenes. We love
ChocoMuchos and going to little bakeries to buy breads for one peso! There are
little bakeries and tindahans everywhere! Everyone runs them out of the front
of their house. I made fresh veggies this week. I feel so much better! That
food in the MTC is seriously super gross. I eat fruit every morning and rice
like every night. They eat a lot of roasted chicken here, not so bad. I did
laundry by hand! Only took about an hour, i was impressed. The transportation
system here is seriously the best! There are jeepneys going both directions of
the main road that everyone uses. You just hop on the one that says the place
our going to. You pay 20 cents and if you have to go into a little town called a
Barangay, you get on a tricycle and drive out for like 16 cents! Look up pics,
the trikes are super funny looking. For exercise, I literally runs laps around
my tiny house for 20 minutes! I couldn’t sleep well last week, so I started
doing better with exercising and drinking tea. They've really helped me sleep.
We have had a lot of fun this week!
My companion and I have had all the big convos that really bring you together!
And we laugh a lot and smile a lot. I feel a lot better this week! As i've
kinda adjusted and accepted how things are here, I've been able to forget
myself more. This work is amazing and I am so blessed to be a part of it. I
know Heavenly Father answers prayers and he does that because he loves us. I
know the book of mormon can give you guidance for any problem you have. It's
done that for me several times this week.
love,
seester gaspar de alba
ps- the philippinos english totally
sounds like mexican english. it's kinda the same accent. so i can totally
understand their english! i'm going to come back and sound like nacho libre!
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