Well this week was transfer week and Sister Stokes is being transferred so you know what that means.. dinner's galore. Seriously though from Monday to Thursday we had TWO dinner's every night. Yeah I for sure gained some pounds this week. The food is always delicious and so far I haven't been served fish but on Wednesday they made us fried tilapia. I was nervous to try it but I decided that I really need to be more adventurous and try new things so I did and it was actually delicious. It didn't taste fishy at all. I even have pictures to prove it!
Last P-day we had our zone activity and we watched "The Other Side of Heaven" and had a feast. It was so much fun. I love that movie, if you haven't seen it then go watch it!
This week was good. Sister Gomez and I are having a hard time with our area, it's just so small and we aren't having much success with our investigators. None of them are keeping their commitments so we end up having to drop them and it can get really frustrating, but we had a great experience this week. Like I said we are having a difficult time and on Friday we had literally gone to all of our investigators and no one was home and no one wanted to listen to us and we were so tired and feeling a little sick. I was so tempted to just ask Sister Gomez if we could just go home and go to bed but we decided that we needed to try one more time. We went to one of our investigators and he wasn't home, but as we were walking we ran into this man and he said "sisters, I was praying that you would come and talk to me, I always see you pass by". It was sort of like a slap in the face because we have seen him many times before and we haven't gone up to him.. long story short he said he is having a hard time with his autistic son and he wants to find peace in his life. We talked with him and gave him a pamphlet to read. We went back the next day and he had read it and was really excited. It was a great experience!. It really made me realize that God's hand is in this missionary work and we are his instruments. I know that brother Isidro has been prepared for the gospel.. we are excited to teach him this next week. Hopefully things will go well.
I have to share something funny that happened this week too. We just started teaching this older man who is so funny and so nice. Except I can never understand a word he says because he doesn't have any teeth. We went to him on Wednesday and he gave us 2 of his t-shirts and said Merry Christmas. He is so kind.. I mean he doesn't have much at all and he gave us his shirts, it was great. But the funny part is that he always points to my face and rambles all this stuff that I don't know but I knew it was about my pimples. Later sister Gomez said that in the Philippines if you have pimples then it means that you are in love. So I must really be in love because my face.. yeah. anyways I don't like going there anymore because he just points at my face. Another random person did to later that day. oh man..
But our work is going.. sort of. I know that we will have success eventually. Missionary work is hard. But so rewarding. I learn so much everyday, I love being a missionary.
TOP 10
1. The other side of heaven
2. Dinners!
3. trying tilapia
4. meeting brother Isida
5. had Angles this week Yum!
6. I watched sister Gomez eat Balut.. eww.
7. P-day
8. Played signs at FHE
9. Got mail today!!
10. Church.. I love my ward!
(sorry im out of time.. no pictures :(..)
Mahal Kita,
Sister Chancellor
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