Hello everyone!  Its p-day again!  It’s like a breath of fresh air...for like 5 seconds until you realize all the stuff you have to do.  Like clean the house :( hopefully I still can sneak a nap in sometime.

So actually not much has happened this week.  I’m getting more and more adjusted every week and so it is getting better and better.  But now the stress is coming more from investigators not being prepared for baptism or not progressing and not from how long I have left.  We have 19 investigators with baptism dates.  Yay!  But not all of them are progressing and coming to church.

This week has just been a lot of walking.  IT IS SOOOO HOT HERE.  I have started carrying a huge bottle of water everywhere because otherwise ill melt and it’s too expensive to buy water all the time.  I also bought handkerchiefs for sweat rags.  Gross but they are so nice because you sweat a lot here.  But raining season is approaching.  I’m not sure whether to say yay or not.  Sister Lizada says it sucks worse getting pounded when it’s raining and flooding.  I guess I can see where she is coming from haha, but it’s got to be better than walking in this heat.  You can see everyone here preparing for rainy season.  Little footbridges are getting built...and by footbridges I mean two pieces of wood or bamboo stringing along making a path.  I’m just glad I don’t weigh more than I do hah.  I would hate to fall through.  

  This week we were at the end of our support and you could totally tell.  We were seriously broke and it was ridiculous. But we made it through!!! yay!  It’s so funny because we are always saying how we have such a mahirap buhay (hard life).  But I’ve never thought that corned beef could taste so good.  I do miss having dinner cooked for me when I come home though.  I guess I’d better get used to it!  Love you mom!! hah

 So now about the work. This week we were teaching a boy.  Both his parents are less active but members and he isn’t baptized yet.  Anyway we haven’t been able to set a baptism date because they were going on vacation but now they just got back so when we went to visit them again we were able to set a date.  And the awesome thing was that the dad was there at the house (he’s a less active as well).  Anyway he joined the lesson for the first time!  And after we extended the baptism date we asked him if he would prepare to baptize his son.  He accepted!  And he told us how much he really wanted us to teach his older son as well and complete their family.  We agreed but it’s going to be a whole new challenge to get him to join lessons.  But still.  It is a new family to work on completing.  You could just feel the spirit so strong and when we left we were so excited.  That feeling was amazing and is why I’m out here. I really want to help people complete their families and have the happiness that we have in knowing we can be with our families forever.  That is why we love the Ng family so much.  It is because we can see the strength in their family and we want them to be able to have that and have it forever.  I will put in all my effort to complete their family and hopefully see them go through the temple someday. That would honestly be worth everything.  Every trial that could possibly come is ok as long as we can help people come to Christ.  Sometimes it gets really hard.  When you feel like you can’t communicate and you’re living on tuna from a can and rice, and you walk from appointment to appointment and no one is there and then you go to that one family and you teach them and feel the spirit and your whole day can just be turned around. I love that feeling.

  One thing Sister Lizada told me that really hit home was that everything is a choice.  It is so true.  You can choose to be happy or you can choose to be mad.  You can see everything as a chance to grow or you can whine and complain.  There’s an EFY song that says it’s a beautiful day even though it’s dark out there.  Even though it’s a little cheesy it’s true.  Make every day beautiful!  MAKE IT COUNT!  Love you all :)   SISTER VAN TASSELL