No good scripture this week. besta read your scriptures and find one for yourself haha

Hello everyone!

So I’m being better and I’m writing this at the beginning of my email time instead of the end!  Yay! I kept my commitment!  Now maybe we’ll have more investigators keeping their commitments haha. 

 Anywayss how was your week? I hope it was great and I hope it’s not getting too cold there.  I don’t mean to scare you all but this next week is NOVEMBER!  How that happened so fast…I have no idea.  But it is what it is and the truth hurts hahah.  And whether or not you are prepared…Christmas is 59 days away!!  Too soon?  Ok I’ll let you enjoy your thanksgiving first.  But for us it’s all Christmas now!  There was a little Halloween celebration but not much.  An occasional kid going up and down the street and getting candy.  The crazy thing is that it isn’t even Halloween yet.  Just whenever is convenient I guess hah.   It’s sad to not be able to dress up and eat tons of candy though!

 This week as far as missionary work goes…

Time just keeps flying by and we just keep working every day.  We had a super bummer week this week though.  We found out that one of our investigators was moving L  They were super progressing and we LOVED going to them because they always had tons of questions.  But wala na!  Hopefully we can get their address and forward them on to the next missionaries.  They’ll be ok. But it’s still hard to let them go. 

One of the days this week we went to an appointment and got punted and we were kind of exhausted.  So we just sat there for a minute.  And then one of the kids pulls out a little ball and kicked it around.  So I went over and played some street soccer with a bunch of 8 year old kids.  And it was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.  They were all like attacking me trying to get the ball.  And I’d just dribble around them and they would just laugh and laugh.  Our ward missionary kicked the ball pretty hard and it just smoked one of the kids!  But they were tough and didn’t even cry.  I about died laughing though.  It was super funny.

Our favorite ward missionary turned in her mission papers last week!  I’m praying she goes to America so that I can go visit her when I get home J

This week I also gained some serious respect for the missionaries in America.  We OYMd an American guy.  I’m not going to go into detail.  But shout out to all of you missionaries in America.  You can do it! You’re amazing J I know mission calls  are inspired…because I don’t think I could make it in America.  Haha but the funniest thing was that I forgot the word for pagbabayad sala in English. And it was awkward.  And wow teaching a lesson in English is awkward and super hard.  I love it.  I still feel like I’m in the awkward stage of Tagalog…like where I think that I know it but I still am super bad at grammar.  So I’m hoping I outgrow that fast.

We had an awesome experience this week.  We taught a bunch of people…not a family but they all live in the same area.  So they all come to the same lesson.  Anyway we actually had one of the priesthood leaders come with us.  Which was the best because he was friends with one of them.   But yeah.  They had requested that we taeacht about holy ghost.  It was cool because we got to answer some of their questions and teach them what the holy ghost really was.  Then we had planned to watch the Restoration video.  But let me tell you.  When you try and watch the restoration video with investigators, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.  First they didn’t have a cd player. But thankfully our ward missionary brought her laptop and had the video on a jump drive.  But it still didn’t work. I was just praying and praying that it would work.  It took about 10 minutes but she finally figured it out.  It was really super quiet and it was in English.  But I really hope they felt the spirit.  One of them asked for the other CD so that he could watch it later. The highlight to that story is that three of them came to church on Sunday!  What can you say?  The church is true haha.

But for closing I really do want to bear my testimony that the church is true.  It may sound crazy to others but I know that this is the only place where you can truly find everything that you are looking for.  Prayer is one of the best things ever. And I promise that prayers are answered.  Even the littlest prayers.  So don’t give up. Just take a moment and say a prayer.  There is always someone listening.  And there is always a way to keep going.
I love you all and I’m super thankful for your prayers and your support!  The best po kayo talaga! Miss na miss ko kayo! Mahal ko kayo. Ingat palagi at keep doing your missionary work!

XOXO from Molino!

 Sister Van Tassell