Hello family,

How goes the battle? I’m bad because I always leave this email for the last so then I’m super tired and I have to really strive to get energy to write this.  But let’s see how it goes. 

So this week was boring. There wasn’t much that happened.  I ate intestine this week.  That was the best.  Joke it was gross.  But I ate it all.

We had exchanges this week again.  I was worried because we got a new STL.  But she’s American.  And it was the funniest thing ever to have an American companion for a little while.  So that went well. 

There were three baptisms that I had to play the piano for.  Two were little 8 yr. old girls so that was adorable.  Their dads baptized them so all of us missionaries were in the back just so into it cause we miss our dads a lot.  But it was good.  There was food at both of the baptisms so I was happy. 

We have a new rule here in our mission.  Our apartments have to pass a cleaning check in order to have a zone activity.  Well we clean our apartment every Monday on pday because we actually have time.  And then through the rest of the week it just slowly gets worse and worse until next pday.  Not the best way to go but unfortunately we don’t have that much time in our apartment so we don’t always get around to cleaning.  Anyway on Thursday morning we looked out our window in time to see the senior couple coming up to the door.  We had no time to clean and let’s just say our house was looking a little crazy.  We were in the middle of switching the laundry and yeah it wasn’t pretty.  So we failed.  Hah it’s bad but thankfully there is a repentance process.  They’re coming again tomorrow so I hope we do a little bit better.

Let’s see.  Spiritual highlight of the week.  Well just recently.  Like right before I emailed this I was watching some Mormon messages.  And let’s just say this week has been a little more challenging.  But all the ones I watched just had such a strong message about the fact that the Lord loves you, Individually.  No matter how awful your day is or if you just fail at everything, you can receive peace from him.  Just to help you keep pushing forward.  It was really cool this week because I was trying to really work on my prayers.  And one night that I was having an awful night I just prayed and just felt peace.  It wasn’t really a super strong answer but it was peace and it helped me sleep so that I could have the energy to make it through the next day.  The little miracles like that are the ones that are the most important.  Because you really have to be watching to see them.  But they are there.

I love you all and I love hearing from you and about everything that is going on back at home.  You’re the best.  Keep on keepin on. 

XOXOX from Muntinlupa

Sister Van Tassell