Sister Masters in the Philippines

Magandang hapon po sa lahat ulit :) Good afternoon again This week had many adventures as we proselyted just as being a missionary here in Kalibo.  I will share the spiritual first:  This week we were blessed to take part in preparing and seeing the baptism of: Sister Dialin (sounds like Jolleen) and her 3 children: John Ritch, Kate, and Christian Carl but better known as "Cano" (who I claim as my kapatid or brother because "Kano" sounds similar which means american and I am "kana" the female american haha) and a cute child of the Basarte family, Donald.  Donald and Cano were perhaps the cutest as they were wearing these massive baptismal clothes, but were oh so happy to be partaking in the sacred covenant of baptism. Sister Dialin was also such a delight to hear her testimony after her baptism and it is such a blessing and so happy to take part in their conversion.  As we went to the Vallejo home and other investigators, man...

Magandang hapon po sa inyo lahat! :) (Good evening to you all!) Natutunan ko na ang tagalog at Aklanon dito sa Kalibo :) I am learning Tagalog and Aklanon (pronounced Akeanon) here in Kalibo.  SURPRISE! I have been transferred and I am now a Sister Training Leader (STL) here in Kalibo. I was surpise transferred on Friday and I have been rather successfully speaking (amazingly, and totally from God- Gift of tongues is REAL) Tagalog. I have been able to differentiate the words of Aklanon, but I will jhave to learn that little by little as I want to learn Tagalog so bad and people here will speak Tagalog to me if they know I dont know Aklanon :) HAPPY DAY. I speak a mixed form of Hiligaynon and Tagalog, but in only 3 days the Lord has already blessed me with a great newfound knowledge of Tagalog :) BLESSINGS.  I have 2 companions (one of them is expected to transfer in about 2 weeks on the actual transfer day) and they both speak Tagalog because they are from T...

Maayong hapon sa tanan :)  (heres a picture so yall arent too bored with so much text) So this email has a great subject line for 2 reasons:  1) I have now been out on the mission for a FULL YEAR. Dang! That was fast. I only have 6 months left to serve the Lord and I feel that so much more of His work needs to be done, but what a blessing it has been to take part in His work for the past year.  I havent seen my parents in person for a whole year now, but WHAT A JOY it was to speak with them and video call for Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day lovely Mamma :)  2) Last night I learned a great tip for all those who will ever visit the Philippines. There's a bit of a back story so you get the full history of how I came to know this. It was very hot last night and the electricity came on and off so the fan was not much use. I got the grand idea to lie down on the tile and found myself happily asleep for about 10 minutes when I woke up to a feeling of som...

Dear Family and friends,  This quote the lines the subject of this email is a lovely quote I saw on one of the shirts of a tricycle driver here in correlation to the local elections that have been occurring here. I laughed pretty hard at that quote and even harder at a jingle that a candidate made that is a rap in hiligaynon and is pretty funny to listen to. We memorized a part of it as we were hiking up and down the "bukid" the rural area/small mountains they have here in Culasi, Roxas on the way to our investigators.  This week we were blessed to be fed by our dear Cheena and Johnny who we helped them make super yummy chicken curry and get "gata" (the milk) out of the scraped coconut that Brother Johnny got from "kagud" (scrapping the coconut). Then we ate and had a wonderful lesson where we overviewed the Law of Chastity. Happy day.  A funny thing that happened this week was that 2 kids were truly convinced I was filipino! haha They asked i...