Were a day late and a peso short

Hey everyone!  I guess I’ll start by explaining the title.  Day late because we barely got to watch conference this last weekend instead of on Easter Sunday. And peso short cause were on the low end of our support and we still have an activity today so were going to be on tipid mode.  tipid means thrifty.

But other than that this week was really pretty good. I got to start working again! That was exciting. This week we were working really hard to get our investigator ready for his baptism interview. In order for him to finish the lessons, we had to go to him every day. He is this really cute old tatay that was a referral.  He’s the one that I told you was a really good cook. And so every day this week we had dinner at their house. It was pretty legit.  And on Sunday he had his interview. He was so nervous! Cause he was really confused about the godhead and he was just sure that he was never going to pass the interview. So we told him to pray. And we prayed with him and he cried cause he was so worried. But he passed and everything turned out ok!  He is the best. He got a new haircut for the occasion and everything.  His friend that referred him was also really nervous about the interview. He kept walking around everywhere and telling us to go check on him.  We just had to tell him that the elder that was interviewing him was a really nice guy.  That kind of calmed him down a little :) good times good times
 

This week at conference was awesome! We have to go to the stake center to watch it. Well I guess not stake center cause it’s not a stake but whatever.  So on the Saturday session it was basically all missionaries there and not many members.  Sunday there were quite a few members though.  It’s pretty cool here cause there are soo many missionaries in our district/stake.  I counted the other day....but I forgot how many. But maybe close to 34 or something missionaries in our stake.  That’s pretty different coming from a stake with 2 missionaries.  But I loved hearing all the messages from our prophet and his apostles and I love the spirit that you feel from watching conference while you are a missionary.  It’s a lot different.  I actually don’t fall asleep :)  One funny thing that happened...when they were announcing temples I couldn’t really hear very well cause our video was kind of choppy so instead of hearing Bangkok Thailand I heard Bangkok china and I was super excited cause I thought that the church was like finally going to be started in china!  But then I realized after about 10 minutes that there wasn’t a Bangkok china and it was really disappointing haha.

This week I was in charge of cooking for our apartment! We ate all American food and we didn’t have rice all week! I’m sure my kabahays were not too impressed. But oh well.  I made burritos and pasta and sloppy joes. All of it was very masarap :)

As far as spiritual thought this week...I think we can just count conference.  They say that if you ask 3 questions and pray about it the week or two before conference and prepare yourself spiritually...you will receive an answer.  And I know that that is true. Because every time I’ve tried it I have received an answer.  This time I asked 3 questions and one was about how I can strengthen my faith. And it was perfect because there was so many talks based on faith and how to stay strong even when we don’t see the light. I loved the talk about the little girl that got in a plane crash and then walked the mile to the light that she saw in the distance.  The light sometimes fell out of her view but she just kept pressing forward.  And that’s how we all need to be.  Find the light and just keep pushing forward even though we might lose sight of it for a while. It’s like Neil A. Anderson talk about how we are in the last days. We have to make all of our actions count. This is our time to practice and improve and prepare for the world to come. So make it count :) I love conference and I also want to agree with Jenna and say that I sustain President Thomas S Monson as our prophet today here on earth.  He is the Lord’s mouthpiece and he is the way we can know Gods plan for our day.

Thanks for all your support and all of your prayers! Love you all

Sister Van Tassell