Santa Clause is coming to town in 30 days

hah oh shoot I have to write this fast.  So this week...not much happened.  Sorry to say but it’s true.  We started a new transfer.  Our planner right now lasts until January 2015 so that made me about die. Because in January it means that I have been away from all of you awesome people for 1 whole year!  So that makes me sad and happy..because you are all crazy haha just kidding. But yeah were in the fast lane of the mission right now.  Christmas is just around the corner and were just here doing the work like no bodies business and hoping like crazy that we will get a Christmas baptism. Also my English is getting awful.  Don’t judge me if my sentences don’t make sense.

  This week was like 10000000 degrees outside. I swear I almost died. It was worse than summer because at least in summer you are just hot all the time.  But now it gets a little cooler at night and there is a really nice breeze a lot of the time. So the days when it gets hot are like the worst.  We went to a Tindahan to buy water and they didn’t have anymore but the lady went into her house and got me a glass of ice water.  It was probably the nicest thing that anyone has ever done hah. We didn’t even teach her or anything. She just did it.  That was amazing.

   Also the Filipinos in my house laugh at me because I apparently don’t know how to wash clothes very well.  They said I was 'Cute.'  And then they both spent the next 30 minutes trying to teach me the proper way.  I think I kind of got it. I had to explain that I come from a place where laundry means filling a machine with clothes and pushing a button.  So I have kind of a big learning gap haha. They thought it was funny because "malaki ang katawan mo pero mahina talaga ang mga kamay!" (great body but really week hands) haha.  So yeah, that’s how that went.

    We’ve been going through a phase of showing Mormon messages to some of the less actives that we are teaching. It is amazing and it is working miracles. I love Mormon messages so much and even though they are in English..the spirit is still there so we just work off of that and the response is great. "You can put your money on the Prophet" --the district haha. totoo yun (is true).

       What else...one of our members is moving to California.  So that’s cool.  And another one just got engaged to an American guy. That was also cool.  And the boyfriend of one of our investigators is coming this week so she is going to come to church.  And that is the most cool thing of all. 

   I’m loving it so much here even though everyday seems like the hardest day. But every day I just get stronger I guess and so I just get to have more trials and come out even better in the end!  My investigators probably get bored because I feel like I always teach about making it through trials. But that is the thing I love to teach the very most.  Because I know for a fact that the days that are the very worst are the days right before you see the best blessings.  So you just have to lean on what you know and remember that there is always a way (1 Nephi 3:7)  and through the atonement we can overcome everything. Not just some things.  Not just most things.  EVERY THING. (D&C 6:34)  So remember that. And I’ll remember that.  And we’ll just all keep on keeping on :)

 LOVE YOU ALL 

XOXO from Molino

-Sister Van Tassell  

(or more commonly Sister Van) 

(or even sometimes 'Elder')