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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week was one of the best weeks I've had since I started my mission! I really mean it! It felt like miracles were just falling out of heaven and into our laps! We saw some really great success and it made me so excited to be a missionary that I even thought several times about extending. If mom and dad weren't going to pick me up, I think I would! So here's what happened! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our miracles came first from two investigators being prepared for baptism They will be baptized on June 6th! They are so excited to be baptized and they are so active in the church! I am so happy each time I see them. They are 11 and 12 and are part member children, but the mother is finally active again and able to support her children in their baptism. They are far in their book of mormon reading and are so cute! I love teaching them.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another miracle- We have a really great investigator that just took a big leap toward baptism! She needs to be married before she can be baptized, but she has no money to be married and has been taught for a 1year and half with no success because their income is really low. The thing is though, she is really active in church and is clear in 3rd Nephi 15 in her reading of the Book of Mormon. She has a really strong testimony and even told us that she is going to share her testimony on fast sunday. We really want to help her get baptized, so we put our heads together this week and prayed to see what was needed. We were able to talk to president about it, who suggested that we could hire her to do our laundry and then pay her, so that she could earn the money. (She has no job and all their income from her boyfriend goes to their children and food.) When we told her about she positively lit up. Seriously, she was beaming! It was so cool for us to see the light in her face that came from her faith and desire. She was so excited to have a way to gain the money. If all goes well, she might be able to be married in late June! I'm excited for her! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But my favorite miracle came from an oym that we contacted last week. On our first visit, she was very friendly and interested and requested that we come back when her whole family was available, so that they could be taught as a family. We said, "PERFECT!!!!" And came back this week to see her, her husband, her daughter, her daughters husband, her daughter's child, and her best friend all waiting for us. It was a really great lesson and the spirit really guided us to know how to share the message of the restoration. At the end of the lesson, before we could even say it, the asked if we had a book of mormon for them to read. They also committed themselves to attending church and the friend told us, "We won't try, we will come!" And come they did! The best friend and the husband came, (so both of the priesthood holders!) and they really really enjoyed church. They asked a lot of questions and even cried in Sacrament meeting. They told us that the feeling in the sacrament was so strong and they felt close to the savior. They were smiling so wide and said that they were so happy that they came to church. Then in gospel principles, at the end of the class the best friend asked if he would be able to be baptized into our church!!!!!!!!! They are just so potential and we have found some really golden investigators here! I am so excited to go back and teach them this week and see what happens! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the funny corner this week in our apartment. I seriously love my companionship so much right now. We have so much fun together and we had some pretty great one liners this week happen. It's just too much fun to be companions with so many different cultures. We have too much to joke about! And I know how much my brothers have missed getting our funny moments. So here it is. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First off, Sister Vaitohi, my Tongan companion was chopping up cabbage. Sister Pablo told her that she was chopping it wrong and then they started throwing comments back and forth, until Sister Pablo called her Mahana. Sister Vaitohi picked up the knife and said, " You better be careful. You won't like Mahana when she's angry!" It was so dang funny! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we were walking home in the dark one night, we passed by this little dog that started barking like crazy. He started chasing us and Sister Vaitohi turned around and shouted at him, "You! Shut your face, huh?!" The dog actually got scared and started whimpering and running the other way. She's so funny! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sister Pablo and I were sitting at our desks when a filippino bee wandered in.The bees here are all black and about three times bigger than the ones at home. It flew up by my face and we swatted it away until it went outside. I then asked her if they would sting here in the Philippines. She said, "Don't they have bees in America?" I replied, "Yes, but they aren't black. She then asked, "What color are they? White?" If you don't get that joke, it's because everyone in the US is white and everyone in the Philippines is dark. It was really funny. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sister Pablo was trying to take a selfy next to this beautiful lake earlier, and she started to slip. When I tried to catch her, I ended up catching her head only. It was really awkward because if I let go, i would drop her in the lake, but It was a little uncomfortable just holding her head. I had to lift her back up to her feet, holding just her head. It was so awkward. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Philippines, the word dog is Aso and the word snake is Ahas. They are fairly similar and when you are new in the mission, you can confuse the two. We were walking along that same lake from the story above, getting further and further into the jungle, when someone shouted out to us, "Be careful! there are really poisonous and big ahas there!" Sister Pablo and I got really big eyes, but Sister Vaitohi just laughed. "Big dogs? Poisonous? What is he talking about?" She turned to us and saw our faces. "What? are you scared of dogs?" "Not dog, snake!" I told her. "Ahas is Snake!" She screamed and started running the way we had come. She kept repeating as she ran, "Not dog, snake! Not dog, snake!" It was so funny! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway I wish I could keep writing, we have so many! But time is almost up! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Miracles are out there! Just have a heart of desire and eyes of faith and you will see how much God's hand is in our lives! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 10th</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was no letter because we got to skype with her! It was so fun and she was so happy and excited when she told us about everything that was happening there. We did get these fun pictures from her though that we can share.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-21093872095799329282015-05-08T14:01:00.001-07:002015-05-08T14:12:23.387-07:00Cock-Fighters<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, this is it. The start of my last transfer on the mission. I had an interview with President Mangum this week and he talked with me about how in the last transfer of the mission, we are now reaching the climax of my mission and should be expecting the highest numbers I have ever got, the most people contacted, and the best work I have to offer. I am so pumped and ready for this transfer! I am sure that through diligence, obedience, and faith in God, this truly can be the very best transfer of my entire mission and I look forward to making it so! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My companion and I started our weekly planning with taking our highest numbers of all time in the mission and setting a goal to achieve one or two more higher- for example, if the most people we had talked to in a week was 100, then we set the goal that all the end of the transfer, we want to achieve 105. I'm excited to reach these numbers, not for the sake of the numbers, but more because I know that it will be more and harder work, a challenge but one that will help me stay focused and firm until the end. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as transfers go, I'm still here in Alaminos- thankfully! But we are adding one more sister to our companionship, meaning that we will be in a threesome. So the new sister is- TONGAN. If you couldn't have guessed that, I guess you haven't been reading my emails because every other transfer I get a Tongan companion! :) I will have now had 5 Tongan companions. I'll be honest, I thought that Sister Finau way back on number 3 was pushing my luck and that she was most definitely my last. That was a joke! Sister Viatohi is her name and she's actually the sister that I've been living with the last past few weeks. (She is super fun, kind and about 6 months in the mission as well.) We are really close as a threesome, despite how they can usually go. But it might not be for very long because President did say when we got the call that the threesome was "for now". We aren't sure if that means until the end of the transfer or until he has to move around a few missionaries, but either way, I'm happy to have ANOTHER Tongan companion. I'm sure your all thinking it too, but I'm getting a lot of teasing about what nationality my future spouse is going to be because of how many companions I've had that are Tongan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Well, this week we had some wonderful miracles. We have found 3 new investigators and have 6 potential investigators to contact this week, and it's only just started! We had some great experiences as a companionship, one that happened when I and Sister Pablo got on a jeepney. Usually, in fact always, when I have gotten on a full jeep here in the Philippines, there has been at least one other woman on the jeep. So, we had a first this week when we climbed on a full jeep, took a seat right in the middle, and then realized that we were the only girls! Not that that is a bad thing or anything, but there is a good type of 40 year old men in the Philippines, and a bad type. Unfortunately, it looked to us that we had just sat in between 11 of the bad type. They all had their chickens with them, ready to go cock-fighting and we were so uncomfortable, we didn't even know where to look, so we just looked at each other. They kept trying to engage in conversation with us, but we were so scared of them that we didn't respond. My companion looked at me and said, "What should we do?" I jokingly responded, "Open our mouths and share the gospel with them." She took my joke seriously, and with confidence that I hadn't seen just seconds ago, turned and began doing exactly that, to all 11 of the men there. I was a little quiet at first, watching and anxiously waiting to see what they would do. As it turns out, Heavenly Father placed us on that jeep for a reason- each one of them were extremely interested. They all told us that they wanted to come to church and asked us many questions about our religion. We were so pleased that we forgot when to get off and ended up having to take another jeep to get where we needed to go. However, I learned that we can never, ever judge a book by its cover, or even a 40 year old cock-fighter by his stereotype. We were able to plant some great seeds, thanks to my companion, and we both hope that we've been able to open some doors in their lives. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you all so much! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep smiling and trusting in God. Follow the spirit and it will always lead you right! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, unfortunately, I didn't get to spend too much time in my area this week. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monday- we taught a member lesson because the investigator that we were waiting for wasn't there. The lesson was really great and we enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday- we tracted and met a new investigator, who is really potential and excited for the gospel! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thursday- This was the second day we were able to teach, and we taught some really great book of mormon and restoration lessons to investigators .I love seeing the desire in their eyes to know if what we are teaching is true. We shared with a less active mother, whose children are 11 and 12 and have not been baptized. We taught them from Lehi's dream and connected it to the mother, how she needed to be like Lehi, and bring her children unto the gospel. It was so wonderful because she came to church with her children <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2135695850" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> and stayed the full three hours! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday- we had exchanges and we both went to the other area</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there you have it, my week in a nutshell. I'm much more adjusted to this area now and don't really miss my old area anymore. I love my companion still and we have a lot of fun together. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next week is the start of my last cycle. Can you believe how fast the time has gone? I'm hoping to make the most of this last transfer and bring more souls unto Christ. I have faith that I'm here for a reason and I'm excited to find out why. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, as far as investigators here in Alaminos, we have some really potential looking investigators who are progressing towards baptism in May. I'm excited for them, they have good support from the members and are really interested. It's really refreshing to be able to teach after last weeks fiasco with hospitals and whatnot and I really enjoy the spirit of regular missionary work. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The MRC is the only one of its kind in the world, and I think it's interesting that missionaries from the Philippines so often need it and go there. I was talking to a woman there who said that she and her husband served for a long time in Brazil, and that the poverty in the Philippines is worse than in Brazil, and that the problems that the missionaries face are greater and all across the board, being spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally. And here I thought I was in an easy mission! :) </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Easter everyone! I hope that you all got the chance to watch that video from last email. I really loved it and have seen it about 6 times now. We are focusing on it as a mission and trying to work it in to our teaching and finding efforts. Our mission president has encouraged us to come up with "Because He lives" Statements to share with other people while street contacting. Its been really effective to testify in that way. "Because He lives, we have a message that will change your life." I especially love the ending part of that video, FIND HIM. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, this week we didn't get around to much working because there was some illness in the apartment. For my concerned parents, It wasn't bad and it wasn't all me. :) Just a little bit me... I had a strange allergic reaction this week, but It's okay, I'm fine now. Anyway, it was good though in a round about way, because it gave my companion and I lots of time to get to know each other. Literally, we just spent the week laughing. We have so much fun together and are super tight. I love her so much and I hope she kills me next transfer. I don't want another companion after her. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have been working hard to build the relationships of trust with the sisters in our zone, with the members, and with our investigators. It's been hard hard work, because the trust was a little broken because of previous missionaries, but there are noticeable changes and it is so exciting and gratifying. I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father's help in this and I know that we couldn't do it with out much prayer and following the spirit. Once we have the trust in those three areas, the work will be so much easier. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't really remember anything funny that happened, but my companion is super funny. She has a mixed accent because she grew up half of her life in California and half in New Zealand. Sometimes I start to speak a little like her and I think she thinks that I'm mocking her or something, but I can't help it, it's unconsciously done. :) But we honestly don't have any problems. She always jokes whenever she sees Americans and says, "Hey, it's your cousins." I always crack up. One time I got her and said when we passed an american, "Oh no! It's my ex boyfriend." She believed me for a little bit. It was funny. </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-89821720621834748212015-04-11T14:10:00.000-07:002015-04-11T14:18:15.268-07:00Testimony - March 30, 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello everyone! FIRST, BEFORE YOU READ MY EMAIL, TAKE 7 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME, AND LOOK AT THIS. <a href="http://www.mormon.org/easter"><span class="s2">http://www.mormon.org/easter</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you go to that website, you will find a wonderful video that was and is being broadcast in hundreds of different ways to all the world. Please take your time and visit it. It will be worth every second of you time. Don't just watch the video, but take time to explore the website as well! There is much to be learned about our Savior Jesus Christ this Easter Season. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, last week I really wanted to share this with you, but I feel like this week is more appropriate. I wanted to share my testimony. After bearing my testimony in Zone Conference, I felt impressed to also share it in my email home. For anyone reading this that doesn't know the word testimony- a testimony is a truth that you know in your heart that fills you with light and happiness, and cannot be taken away. It can only be given away, and returned to you with increase. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know that God is real. He is all powerful, all knowing. He is the supreme creator of all. And He prefers us to call Him Father. I know I am a child of God. I know that He has a plan for me. Central to that plan is my Savior Jesus Christ. I know that Jesus is the Christ and that He truly sacrificed Himself for us. That Sacrifice is called the Atonement. I believe in second chances because of the Atonement. I believe in hope, in light, in happiness and in life after death, because of the Atonement. I know that he established a church here on this earth and his true church has been restored to us through the prophet Joseph Smith. I know that innocent blood was split on the floor of Carthage jail because Joseph Smith was truly called by God. He brought about the restoration of the important truths of the gospel, which enable us to come closer to our Heavenly Father. We can gain a testimony of Joseph Smith through prayer and sincere desire to know. I know, because I asked in prayer. My prayer was answered. Joseph Smith truly was a prophet. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. It is complimentary to the Bible, and both would be incomplete without the other. And I know, with all my heart, mind and soul that this church is the true church of God here on this earth. I am blessed to have the gospel in my life and I thank my father in heaven for it everyday. And I share this in the sacred name of our Savior, Jesus Christ Amen. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope and pray that if anything I testified of is something you do not yet know for yourselves, that you will make an effort to know through prayer to your Father in Heaven. I promise you that He will answer. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because He Lives, we too will live again! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello! I'm at the start of a new transfer~ second to last actually. It's so crazy how fast the time has gone by and most the of the time, I'd rather not think about it and just focus on the day at hand. My dear companion, Sister Dadivas went home on Sunday after church, (She completed her mission) and so I'm now in a threesome with the other two sisters in my apartment, Sister Gupit and Sister Melosantos. We are having a lot of laughs and fun and I'm happy to be their companions for this short time. On Thursday, my new companion is coming and..... she is..... TONGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you believe, I am going to have another Tongan companion in the mission!!? Her name is Sister Mahoni and she is my batch. So we are both going home together.... which probably means I will transfer so the area won't have to be a re-open. I really hope not though! I want to stay in Lipa! I love it here. I don't really know her all the that well, just that she is tongan, from New Zealand. I'm excited to meet her on Thursday. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, as far as this week went, we had the opportunity to watch Meet the Mormons at the Zone Conference. I really loved it and the last story gave me hope for one of our investigators who actually is having pretty near to the same experience. I realized in the movie that she too has the chance for that life- a life in which she is enriched in the gospel, has a son who serves a mission, and even married to a returned missionary. She is starting to loose her hope and faith and I hope through <i>our hope and faith</i>, we can bring her back to her testimony. She used to be really strong, but too many trials have hit her and now she even questions if God is real and if He cares about her. So that message of hope from the other woman will be so helpful in her situation! I also loved the part about the candy bomber! It was so cool to see a childhood favorite story in a movie! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was on exchanges this week and we taught this awesome investigator in their area. She is well learned in the bible and in other religions, but after studying more about the life of Jesus Christ, decided that her current church was not true. Since then she has been searching for the right church. I love these ones. Well she told us that in the year of missionaries visiting her home, she has felt much hope and peace and a "light feeling." We testified to her that this was from the spirit. Then she asked about why we believed there were prophets. We testified about Joseph Smith and prophets and then she said, "Sister's, I think you are right. But I'm going to ask God first." We almost jumped for joy. "Yes! Ask Him!" She commited herself to prayer! :) I love being on exchanges. You see so many miracles in other people's lives from all across the board! It's so cool! </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-47128889435916775482015-03-16T21:23:00.001-07:002015-03-16T21:23:05.196-07:0057,600 Seconds<div dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">57,600. That is the number of seconds an average missionary has in a day. About 6,500 seconds is spent eating, 14,000 seconds is spent studying, and 30,000 seconds is spent teaching and preaching the gospel. Every second has felt more valuable to me since our mission president shared that with us. Even more short is the fact that an average life on earth is about 2 hours and 45 minutes of God's time, and each mission of an 18 month serving sister is 3 minutes of God's time. My mission president, after sharing that chuckled and said, "Elders and Sister's, can we be good for 3 minutes?" We all laughed, but it's a true principle and I've applied it to myself by asking, "Can I give my all for 3 minutes?" "Can I be consecrated and sanctified for 3 minutes?" I am striving each day to answer "YES!" with all the heart, might, mind and strength that I posses. It isn't easy, but if I do my best, Heavenly Father will make these 3 short minutes worth it. </span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, this week, we did some good, hard work as a companionship- just not in our area. After being out for a week (from the hospital and what-not), we had to catch up on some of our responsibilities. It was pressuring, but we managed to come out okay. And then we had that surprise trip to Manila, for fingerprinting. We found out the day before and even though I've looked forward to that my whole mission, I was suddenly NOT excited because it meant that we lost one more day of working in our area! And on top of that, we had the Missionary Council this week. Oh yeah, and then practically all of our investigators and recent converts caught chickenpox, so we couldn't teach them. But if you're doing you best, truly, Heavenly Father blesses you for your efforts and will watch out for all your investigators. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a member who referred to us one of our investigators, but is never available to be in the lessons. From the Preach My Gospel, we learn that the ideal situation is when a member who referred an investigator is present in the lesson, so it's really important that he can come. But like I shared, he is never available and hasn't been for about 3 months. But the miracle is, when we got to the house of the investigator this week, he was already there! It was a truly a miracle because we have been texting and asking for one and a half transfers and even that day, we texted him. But he never replied, as usual, so we just went to the investigators house, and to our surprise, there was the member! I could see how Heavenly Father had answered our prayers and the member was just perfect in the lesson. Another was to this amazing family (the one I keep talking about) that I love teaching and everytime we do, I just picture them in white. I love teaching them and before the lesson, we sang primary songs out of the hymnbook while waiting for the mom to finish cooking and the father was in tears. I could see that although he might not have understood the English, the spirit of those hymns really touched him. And the last lesson was from our investigator that we were close to dropping because she was never home when we went, but Heavenly Father helped us to see that she needs one more chance by placing us in the right place at the right time. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, Finally I can write a real letter. Sorry about the last two weeks. I was feeling a little light-headed and having a hard time writing a complete letter. (Because of the asthma attack.) </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, now, I'm back to normal and ready to update you fully on my adventures here in Lipa! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all, I finished my second journal on the mission. This means that I have 3 mission journals! I either write alot, or write really big. I think it's a bit of both. But I am being especially creative with this last one, because I'm pretty sure it will be my LAST. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good things always come out of trials, and the good news is, my doctor accepted appointments. She visited utah before and is really potential. We gave her two pamplets and set up an appointment with her for next week. I'm really excited to teach her. Another testimony that good things come from our trials is what happened on Wednesday. Our district leader took one for the team by catching chicken pox this week. Because he had chicken pox, he's been quarintined in the house for 10 days and so we were unable to have district meeting. So that's the trial part. Poor thing. Here's the good news though! Because he was quarinteened, we were able to go out earlier on Wednesday and</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. I felt prompted to pray in our companion study one day that any investigators who had plans to leave their house would feel prompted instead to stay so that we could teach them. We were running low in the lesson numbers because of how much I had been sick and really needed to see our investigators. Well, the first investigator we visited told us as soon as we came, "Sisters, I had an activity that I was excited to attend, but just an hour before, I didn't feel like going any more. I didn't know why, but I felt like I should stay instead. And then you came 15 minutes after it started. I guess Heavenly Father wanted you to teach me today!" That was so cool to see the direct answer to my prayer! </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-80326199117363438092015-02-15T23:31:00.001-07:002015-02-15T23:31:23.110-07:00Happy Valentines Day!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Valentines day! I can't believe a year ago today I was celebrating my 3rd or 4th week in the field! Now I'm on my fourteenth month! Time is really going by fast. </span><div>
<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't have much time to write this week, and so instead of trying to catch up with the week, I'll just write my testimony.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-24748508900193680762015-02-10T22:47:00.000-07:002015-02-10T22:55:37.335-07:00My MTC Batch Is On Their Way Home<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Well, can you believe it? My MTC batch has finished their missions and are on their way home! </span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got to see them <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_535342818" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span>, because we had a special meeting that we all went to in San Pablo. (Elder Beck and Elder Arden were there, it was awesome!) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, they all were glowing with the satisfaction that they have served good, worthy missions and with the excitement that they will see their families in less than 4 days! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so proud of them and grateful for the opportunity I have to know them! And like I said last week, I am so grateful that I broke my thumb and that I have this extra time in the field. I wouldn't trade it for the world! The best three transfers of my mission start now!!!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week, we had the most amazing miracles happening. Everywhere we turned, there was another miracle from the Lord. <span style="line-height: 16px;">I have come to gain a stronger testimony that as we are obedient and exercise our faith through prayer and fasting, Heavenly Father truly does answer our prayers. For our companion fast last sunday, we fasted that we would be able to build relationships of trust with the members, among other things. Well, it was amazing to me how quickly Heavenly Father answered! We were able to meet with several members and do service for them, work with our ward missionaries, build a great relationship with the bishop and ward mission leader, and create a vision or goal for the combined efforts of the missionaries and ward. It was like magic how easy everything flowed this week with our members. We went from square one to square 5 in just a week! I am so thankful that our mission president encouraged us to fast for 24 hours and I have truly seen the blessings that came from our sacrifice as an companionship.</span><span style="line-height: 16px;"> </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-31189454076693742862015-01-25T23:11:00.000-07:002015-01-25T23:11:58.688-07:00My Goals Or Desires For the Next 5 Months<div>
<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all, I just want to thank my brother for his awesome spirit! I love his letters every week and highlight things to remember and try in our work here in the Philippines! Your the best Trevor! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So firstly, you asked a while back what my goals were about this coming year. After much thought and prayer, I have concluded on the following list of what I call, "My 5 desires". These are the top 5 desires of the next 5 months of what I want to accomplish in the mission. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week Mom asked me how I feel about my batch going home and I'm still in the mission. Honestly, I'm so relieved. I can't go home that soon!!!!!! I'm so incredibly grateful for the extra time that I have to serve God and to be his missionary. I also have seen recently an unexpected gift that Heavenly Father has given me out of it. Because my batch is going home, I have had the chance to talk with them about their fears and uncertainties about it all. I understand how they feel and what they are going to feel because I already went through it before. I have been able to counsel them on the things that will be most helpful and the things that they can look forward to and expect. It's a wonderful blessing that Heavenly Father has given me to be able to understand and reach out to everyone in my batch. I feel like everything is switched now, and I'm encouraging them, haha! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I just want to record some really cool miracles this week! First, We have had a lack of intrest lately as we've street contacted people and most people are more interested in my nationality than getting a lesson. My companion and I put our heads together and prayed hard this week and last week that we would be able to have some interested potentials from oyming. Well, prayers work! We talked to 18 people one day and 17 of them accepted lessons. It seemed like everyone in our path was prepared and realdy for some lessons! How cool! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second, there was a lady on this jeep one day that I really felt like I needed to talk to. The only problem was, she was too far away and I could get to her. I kept looking at her and feeling the need, but I didn't know how. Finally I just prayed that I would be able to have the opportunity to talk again, if it was the will of God. Incredibly, she was sitting next to me the very next jeepney ride! Almost 3 hours later, we boarded the same jeep. Can you believe it? Even cooler, she accepted lessons. Heavenly Father answers our prayers. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-11580367175969933802015-01-19T16:02:00.000-07:002015-01-19T16:02:45.559-07:00My Area, My Companion, My Schedule<br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We haven't had much time with one another because of how busy everything is, but we get along really well. She is more quiet and reserved and sometimes I think I can be a little intimidating to her. I've developed a rather outgoing personality throughout my mission. However, we have been coming really close as we've talked and gotten to know one another better. I love her and I'm so grateful for her as my companion! She's exactly what I needed. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whew. That's definitely where the story is at. We are so busy all the time, running running, that I feel like my head just hit the pillow each night only to get up in 5 minutes and do it all again. I'm lucky if I have time to shower each night, let alone write in my journal! However, I love it! It's so great and it's exactly what I need to keep my on my toes these last months. So this past week we had Zone Meeting on Wednesday. We gave a workshop, reported on the news from our President and gave a talk called, Rise to your Call. Afterward, we rushed home and did our weekly planning, finishing just in time to rush off for another exchanges. Sorry, no pictures. I don't trust this place, haha. But anyway, she's from Australia, her name is Sister Tzanis, and it was so fun! I love her fun loving personality and I learned a lot from her. Then we came back <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1863149727" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span> night just in time to start our second exchanges. This time I was with Sister Leung-wai from Hawaii. She was really fun. She is only 4 weeks into the mission, so I had to do a lot of the teaching. It was so crazy and made me a little grateful that I've always had a companion to support me in teaching, but I really loved our exchanges and learned a lot from her! She is so fun and awesome! Then we had more meetings and I'm just grateful that its another week. Although I'm dreading it also. Here's what we have ahead of us for this week! :)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-9437672446762247232015-01-12T17:59:00.000-07:002015-01-12T17:59:22.564-07:00Time Flies When You Are Busy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had exchanges this week- my first one of the transfer. I still have 8 more to go! :) I'm so excited. The girl I went with was Sister Kerr, I sent you a picture of it. She is going home in Jan 30 so she had a lot to teach me. We worked really hard and saw amazing miracles in her area. On such miracle was that we got introduced by a member to this man who is slowly going blind. He used to be atheist, but since going blind has come to believe in God and spends everyday reading what he can about God online through his big screen. We shared Ether 12:27 with him and he started crying. He said that he has had several missionaries from other religions come to his house, but none have had such an effect on him as us. He said there was a power from God that he could feel. He asked us to read the scripture again. Then he said, "God has answered my prayers." Then we asked him to close with a prayer and he said in his prayer, "Father, the Sisters said they want to come back. Please help them to come back." It was the first time I had ever heard that and I started crying! Then after the prayer he said again, "I felt it again! This is truly something better than all the missionaries before had to offer." It was a reminder to me of the special message that we carry as missionaries. It is better than anything the world has to offer! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got to attend MLC, missionary Leadership council this week. It was an amazing meeting and it completely changed my life! I think this has been my favorite meeting out of all the meetings on my mission. I learned so much about Christ and his Enabling power of the atonement. One thing that I liked especially was something that our mission president said. "You are the limiting factor to how much the Lord can magnify you. His enabling power and magnification is limitless." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a crazy week this has been! What with Sister Finau going home and transfer day and everything else :) .... It's kept me on my toes, that's for sure. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, first off, Transfer Day. I was put in charge of 3 new sisters, it being their first transfer. I helped them make it to their destinations along with making it to my own. It made me feel so old in the mission. They kept asking me all these questions and I realized that I am in fact, 1 year into the mission now. Crazy how fast time has flown by! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I was transferred to Lipa 1 ward. It's so weird to be back into the city again after the province life of Barra. I really miss small fishing village life! And I really miss the people of Barra. It's weird to see cars everywhere, and to have more than one place to shop and eat each week. I've gotten so used to seeing Petti-cabs. (It's like a trycycle but it's on a bike instead of a motorcycle) Being in Lipa reminds me of my first area. Lipa is really close to Batangas and they are similar in look. The ward is really friendly and seem to be pretty fired up about missionary work, so I'm excited. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My companion, Sister Dadivas is so cute. She is a filippina and is so much fun to be with. I love her sweet spirit. She is striving to be a good example and leader and she is exactly obedient in all things. I'm really happy to be her companion. I sent you a picture of her, and also of our new apartment, which is sometimes called the Lipa Hotel. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I learned very quickly why it is so named. Their are 6 sisters in our ward because our boundaries are so big, but four sleep in our apartment and two sleep in the other. Unfortunately, two were locked out of their apartment and needed to spend the night with us. Thankfully the Lipa Hotel is rather big and fancy, and we were able to house them comfortably. We have two bathrooms, ps. Hurray! I felt especially bad for one of the sisters, who was new and didn't understand that they were locked out, or anything else because we had all been speaking in Tagalog. I forgot what it's like to be new in the mission! But she is quite the trouper, even though their sink broke, they were locked out twice, and many more, she is still going strong! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My new housemates are Sister Kerr and Sister Taufa. Sister Kerr is going home and Sister Taufa is Tongan and goes home the batch after me. I love them so much and of course, happy to have another Tongan in the house. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, New Years was pretty bland. We just went out to work, had an early curfew because of all the drunks about, and came back to sleep. I unpacked and listened to all the kids outside blowing their toy horns all night. Seriously, every kid had the same toy... It was pretty hilarious actually.. I'll try to send a video next time. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, we are teaching a family- for the first time in my mission. It's such a differnce teaching a family all together and I love it so much. (The A. Family....) They share one Book of Mormon and have diffent colored markers to mark their place. It's so cute. I love them. We are focusing on trying to get them to attend Church as a family! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, love you! That's it for this week! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-80898522106308625962014-12-31T17:13:00.002-07:002014-12-31T17:13:58.062-07:00Merry Christmas!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Merry Christmas! It was so good to see you and talk with you this week! I love you all so much! It was crazy to see how much you have all changed physically. Isaac is a giant! And his voice is so deep! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, because we skyped I don't really have much to say. For Christmas we went to the Branch President's house and they fed us a christmas dinner. It was fun! But the best part was having our Christmas Skype, haha! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our invesitagtor came to church for the third time in the row. She is really progressing and I have faith that she can be baptized next transfer. I am so happy for her! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My companion went to the mission home this Sunday. It was really sad to see her go, but I know that we all have our times and seasons. She is so great and she really changed my life and this area. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last bit of news is, I was transferred to Lipa. Yay! My new companion is Sister Dedevias. (Day-Dee-Vus.) She is Philippina. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go..." </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each night here in the Philippines we've had cute little kids come a caroling for a peso or two. We unfortunately can't give them anything as missionaries, but it's cute to here them singing. There is no snow here in the Philippines, (of course) but it's been really cold and rainy, close enough right? And we've had some wonderful Christmas Presents. They didn't come wrapped in cute paper or found in our stalkings.... Instead, it was found in the fact that we now have 5 baptismal goal dates, three new investigators, and best of all, even though we went to Cabayao this weekened because Sister Finau is going home soon, our most progressive investigator attended church and the Christmas party, even though she knew we wouldn't be there. The best Christmas present ever! :) I was so happy! When an investigator is able to come to church with out you, it really shows that they are converted to the gospel, not the missionary. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, what else? Sister Finau goes home in 5 days... I can't believe it. I am so sad and I will miss her so much! We have had such a good companionship this transfer and have seen many miracles in the work together. She has changed my life for the better! But I know that all things have their times and seasons... so I'll miss her, but I know her time has come. Speaking of time, can you believe that my MTC batch has one more transfer left in the field? They are going home in a little over a month. It is so fast! I'm so excited to see what Heavenly Father has in store for me in the time that will lapse. My dear companion, Sister Feinga is also going home with Sister Finau's batch. I got to see her this weekend for the last time. (We got to meet up while travelling to Cabayao) It was so good to talk to her one last time! I love her so much! I can't believe it's been a year since we were companions. Crazy! </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it's okay. I'm planning to go to Tonga after my mission, (and after I've gotten some money hehe,) and visit them. I'm trying to pick up a little tongan before I go.... Sister Finau and I have been singing in Tongan this whole week. The tongan hymnbook has more hymns/ additional hymns that aren't in the English hymnbook. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="background-color: #134f5c;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had our Zone Christmas Party this week. It was so fun to experience! We had a lot of games and of course some really spiritually uplifting talks. I was asked to play the piano for the hmyns, and then I also accompanied a musical number, and sang Homeless with my companion. Dang, I felt like I barely sat down in that meeting before getting up again, haha. But I really encourage my brothers to practice the piano. I was the only person in the whole zone christmas that could play the piano. Even if you think the opportunity won't come, it will! Promise! </span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-86441284502810942022014-12-16T23:08:00.003-07:002014-12-16T23:08:51.548-07:00Short and Sweet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-12404111973516684872014-12-10T23:00:00.002-07:002014-12-10T23:00:33.970-07:00Buhay Pa! (Still Alive)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> No need to worry, all is well here in Barra, Philippines! The storm that was supposed to be a super typhoon was the slowest storm ever to landfall, (probably not actually, just exaggerating) and so by the time it reached us, it had died down so much, that it was basically no more than a strong rain storm. It took 4 days to finally hit and meanwhile we experienced really strong wind, but nothing more.When it did hit, it lasted for over 24 hours, (again slow storm), but we are okay! As far as I know, there was no damage, but we haven't gone to our area yet to check on the members. They were all evacuated from their homes because of the storm and brought to the chapel to be safe. Poor things, they were there for at least 2 days. Can you imagine being stuck in the church building for 2 days? With little kids running around? And no soft chairs or anything? Anyway, I think they are well on their way home now. They are up against the ocean and so I'm expecting that they will have had some flooding and maybe some minor damage, but we hope and pray that nothing beyond that. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Because of the storm though, we were unable to go out and work for 4 days straight. Dang! I was so sick of staying indoors! I just wanted to go out and teach some people the gospel! I finished my Book of Mormon and got clear to I Nephi 20 again, read 1 chapter of Preach my Gospel in Tagalog... and an entire Liahona all in just one day. Yep, there is a reason we are called to labor as missionaries. Staying at home is so boring! :) Okay, so it really wasn't that bad. But I'm more than a little excited to go out and work this week! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did get your package this week! I was so, so excited to Elderberry Jam and the chocolates. My apartment mates and I have already eaten one bag! (But I think that's because we had nothing else to do...) I also loved all the cute window art crafts, they are so cute! And I'm so ecstatic to teach everyone how to play don't eat the snowman. We are going to use it in FHE one of these days. I will hopefully send off the last of my christmas package today, if all goes well and I find everything alright. :) It might not get to you until after Christmas though, sorry! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so grateful for all the prayers and fasting in behalf of the people here. I have really thought of how amazing it is that the storm hit on fast <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1254757440" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> and that it hit us so slowly. I know that Heavenly Father really heard the prayers of his people in that time before the storm and caused it to decrease before hitting our mission. We even saw some miracles because of the storm. Of Course, the biggest one was that the storm really broke down before hitting us. Another one was that<span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"> as a companionship we have been praying hard that our less actives will open their hearts and receive us. (All of them refuse to be taught and ignore us when we come) When we fasted this week, we fasted specifically for the less actives,that they might open their hearts. We fasted in particular too for the husband of one of the less actives, who is not a member and will not let us even come in through the gate if he's home. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1254757441" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Sunday</span></span>, after our 30 minute sacrament meeting (because of the on coming storm we only had church long enough to take sacrament and it was canceled in Barra so we went to the stake center,) we went to Barra to warn our investigators that they could move to the chapel if needed. While there, we passed by this less active's home and we both felt prompted to stop and speak to them. To my surprise, the husband actually invited us in. His wife seemed so happy to see us and told us that she would be going to the church with her husband and children. As soon as she said that, I realized that this would be such a great opportunity for him to meet and speak with members and see the light that this church has to offer him. I could see the hand of God was in this and was so amazed at the small and simple ways that he accomplishes his work.</span><span style="line-height: 16.8999996185303px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Happy birthday, Daddy dear, happy wishes to you from me... How does that song go? Haha! I really don't remember those things anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially in English. I speak Tagalog so much now, I feel like I can speak faster and easier in Tagalog than my own native language. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I actually noticed today as we were practice teaching in English that I start out thinking Tagalog and translated in my head what I want to say from Tagalog into English. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How strange. I really hope I can speak English to you when we skype in 25 days! ;) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also feel like I'm forgetting that I'm American. I've had non-American companions ever since my first transfer and the last two transfers I've been the only American in the apartment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I look at myself in the mirror, I get a little weirded out. I'm all like, "Why are you white?" Haha, but I love it. I love my companion so so much and I love the other sisters too! We </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have a party all the time and laugh and joke in Tagalog. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So this week, we didn't get to go to work very much. We only worked two full days because Sister Finau went to Manila for two days, and then when she came back she was so tired because </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her travel was 8 hours one way on a bus and she didn't sleep at all that she slept from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_732256375" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">2:00 p.m to 6:30 a.m</span></span> the next day. Poor thing. So then the next day we went shopping for her because she missed P-Day and we went to pay the bills, which ended up being a 4 hour ordeal. Whew. So we didn't have the opportunity to teach. We taught <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_732256376" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span> though and it was really good to get back out on the streets of Barra. I was starting to really miss it! Unfortunately, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_732256377" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> it rained and flooded in Barra so 40 minutes after getting there, we had to turn around and go back. We had just enough time to help a less active do some laundry. Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_732256378" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> we had meetings and a members Birthday gathering to attend... Anyway, I'm really excited this week to work a full week! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Sister Finau was in Manila, I got to do a mini exchange with another Sister named Sister Krisubanu. She is so cute! She is from Indonesia and we had so much fun working together. She is only in her training still, but</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I've got to go now. I love you all! See you in 25 days! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mahal na mahl kita! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00407943945514412874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857068644488630588.post-68100083142157348092014-11-24T10:23:00.000-07:002014-11-24T10:34:01.880-07:00New Companion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll never guess. I have a new companion.... and she is Tongan! Again! I love Tongans so so much and when I found out I was going to have my third Tongan companion, I was literally jumping up and down with joy! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, her name is Sister Finau (Fee-now) and this transfer is her last transfer. I'm going to "kill her" as we say here in the San Pablo mission. She is a very, very social and outgoing person. She is very humble as well and loves everyone. I have done more service with her in these last 5 days than all my other companions put together. If she ever sees anyone carrying buckets of water, or doing laundry, she immediately drops her bag and starts doing it with them, whether we know them or not! She promised me that she will NOT get trunky this transfer and I believe her completely. I wouldn't know she was going home this transfer because of her hard work, enthusiasm and diligence. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had an interesting dream before she became my companion. To both the Tongan and Filipino <wbr></wbr>cultures, dreams are a really big deal and they often foreshadow things that will happen. So, of course, after 11 months in the Philippines and 3 Tongan companions, it's about time I have one! I dreamed that Sister Vaka and I were proselyting, just like a normal day, and then suddenly Sister Vaka turned to me and said, "It's time to go." So we went to get her luggage and once we had everything packed, we got into a tricycle. We dropped her off and I picked up my new companion. I didn't see her face in the dream, but I knew she was shorter than me. ;) Haha. Anyway, as we were getting into the tricycle, I looked back and there were 3 Tongans waving at me. Two of them were Sister Feinga and Sister Vaka, and the other was my new companion! Cool, right? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also wanted to share with you an amazing story that Sister Finau shared with me about her life. She told me that she always wanted to serve a mission, but when she got into high school, she started to become "pasaway." (Disobedient in tagalog.) She never did any serious sins, but she ran away from home and for 6 months, she never came home. After 6 months, she went back to her house to get something in her room. The door was hard to push open, but when she finally did, she opened it and found so much food everywhere. On her dresser, on her bed, everywhere. She was really mad, because some of it was rotting and stunk. She turned around and went into her room to confront her parents. When she came in, she found her dad, lying in his bed, nearly dead from illness. She said though, that it didn't really faze her and she demanded, "Why is there all this food in my room? It stinks!" Her mother, in a quiet voice said, "When are you going to come home? When are you going to come home? Every night we save you some food and put it in your room, hoping that you will come home." She said she immediately went outside and told her friends to leave. From that day until her mission, she never left her parents. I loved that story and cried when she told me it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, we've had a really successful week. We have a new investigator, who is the husband of one of our other investigators. Commonly, we have a problem where the wives are really interested, but the husbands are super against us. But in this case, the husband is so interested! Yay! He had many questions for us. His son, a 15 year old is a really hard debater and really knows the bible. He often uses it to try to make us trip up in our lessons. But his father had so much confidence in our message, despite anything his son was saying. After his son pulled out scripture after scripture trying to prove that there couldn't be prophets today, his father just shook his head at him, and then told us, "I believe we still need Prophets. Why would they just stop after Christ?" Anyway, I can't wait to teach him again! We left him a book of mormon to read and pray about and I'm excited to see how it went! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, our very first investigator here in Barra finally came to church. We've been struggling each week to get her to come. Despite it being sort of close to her house, she hasn't been able to come because of one reason or another. But <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1136604941" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Sunday</span></span>, right in the middle of passing the sacrament, she came! Sister Finau and I both rejoiced when we saw her! Missionary work is so wonderful!!!!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week, I wondered who the Happiest person on earth was. I realized, of course, it would be the most perfect. Jesus Christ must have been the very happiest person on earth and his whole life, everyday was spent in the service of others. Let us all strive to be like him and follow his example! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember to share the gospel with everyone through your example! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fear is not worthy of a child of God! :) </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An awesome restraunt we ate at which is filippino traditional native food and culture! </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, another month mark is coming up! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1498831132" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tomorrow</span></span> is my 11 month mark in the field. I can't believe time has gone by so fast! I feel like it's only been weeks! I remember my first week emailing home, feeling like, "This is the beginning of 18 more months!" Now I feel the end is coming! I just want to be a missionary forever! Maybe I'll extend, haha! :) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I have some great experiences to share with you from this week! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First we have 2 baptismal goal dates now, not just one! Yahoo! We are so happy! We have 6 investigators instead of the one we started out with. All in all, a happy ending to this transfer. We are so excited to see where things will go here in Barra! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, This week we had stake conference. Saturday </span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">night nobody really showed up. It was 20 members and the missionaries. For the whole stake! So</span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Sunday</span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">morning, we weren't really thinking and left at</span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 9:20</span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when it started at 10. We got there to find the place packed! We found a member to sit by and she said that she had been their since 8 but she was clear in the back! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were in the overflow, on the 4th row to last. We were okay though, because we could still see... but as soon as the meeting started, we realized the speakers in the back didn't work, so we couldn't hear a word. After an hour of members chitchatting in the back and children running around like crazy because there was no sound, they set up huge speakers. So then we could hear and just in time too, because our President was next to speak. Before they let him speak though, they took the mic attached to the big speakers and tapped it against the puplit speaker. It was so loud and we all laughed. What a crazy experience! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished the Book of Mormon in Tagalog this week! All 777 pages of it! Whew! Now I reading Moses in the Pearl of Great Price. I'm finding that I understand most of what is said now I'm pretty happy! :) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also taught Sister Vaka Yoga and Singing. As if I know how to do either of these, haha. But she asked me to teach her what I knew, so I did. It was fun and we sung the Sound of Music song to learn. (We got rained in one day and because it was flooding in Barra we were stuck in doors almost all day so that's how we spent it.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week I read Jesus the Christ and learned that Christ also had to go through the veil of forgetfulness! He, just like us, had to learn through the spirit and gain through the spirit the knowledge of who he was before. He was tested and tried just as we were, but unlike us, he never made a mistake. It's more incredible to me now than ever that he came to this earth, and although he had the veil of forgetfulness over his mind, he preformed the atonement! I am so grateful for my savior and his perfect life and example for all of us! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many cultures here on this earth! ( Philippino, American...) But we all share one common culture- the gospel! Christ is our savior and through him, we can be perfected and return to God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love you! Keep smiling and sharing the gospel through example and word! </span></div>
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