Week 37: Sent me to deep deep no where! (136 cockroaches)

Hello all!! 
So news for this week: 
 Im switching to a farther part of the mission which has not happened to an american sister in a while!!! And there is lots of seafood there and it is rural there they say!!! Im very excited. Its a 4 hours bus trip from here! So road trip!!!! The place is called Roxas and Im so so so very excited to experience a 2nd area as I am now about half way done with my mission haha :) 
I am super excited as I have spent a good 7 months in my first area and have even trained there too. This wil be an exciting change and I will be sure to update you all next week. 
This week we were able to teach a man that I talked to on the street. He always fixes shoes on the side of the road and feeds his goat and I asked to pet his goat haha. It turns out his name is Ernesto and his goat's name is Ernesto Jr. Brother Ernesto only had an education until grade 2 and spoke some Cebuano so that was kind of a cool experience to try to understand. We taught him the message of the Restoration and that Christ's church is again here on the earth and when he heard the great news that God loves us enough to call prophets for us even to this day he cried with so much joy. He is so excited to read the Book of Mormon and we even found one at the church here in Cebuano for him as he understands no english :) To see the joy this message brings to people's hearts is amazing. What a blessing to see God's hand in people's lives. 
Other cool thing: 
We helped our investigators make pandesal (a super good bread roll here). So theres pictures of that :) 
I also ate a silk worm!!! Sister Garcia loved them and ate 7 with her rice haha. I love her.
I will be sending pictures of a cool american themed Jeepney. We ride in those and its like a cool bus things here that stops when you say "Lugar lang" and you just get off and on wherever. Also theres a group of cute kids next to another investigator so they are in a cute video of them saying hello to you all :)

The cockroach count is at 136 now :) We sprayed permethrin last monday and it killed a lot... haha
Any ways. Until next week. Love you all :)
Love, Sister Masters






Those last pictures are of me and one of my dearest member families and Sister Jezel and her child are in that one pic. She's the one Ive talked about the past couple emails. She is still amazing :)











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