Boo, no pics this week

Good Morning everyone, I hope that you all had a great week, as for our missionary she is doing good, she seems a little melancholy this week, I think it is because of Christmas coming, it is her favorite holiday, good thing that her Christmas made it to the Philippines.
Here is some of what she put in her email last night:
I am doing great. guess what! my package is  here and my room mates are hopefully picking it up right now :) haha. So I have a list of things and questions for you. OK so Madrid? MIA still? and yes you can accept the friend request from Freedom and Shin :) I am doing great and I did get a letter from you this week :) 
Now remember I am going to put up bits and pieces, so it might be a little jumbled.

My day is really good :) i stuffed face at a fancy place and i got some shorts finally :) How is your day?

I am so happy to hear that you and Cierra did a musical number :) I bet it went great. what song did you sing? OH i loved the letter about that kid holding the sign with my name on it and you crying like a baby :p ha i was having a bad day when i read that and it made me happy and smile.

I don't know yet. I hope me and sese are here for another 6 weeks. and we have a baptism on Saturday :)  Yea you can send the white ones if you want. they are for the house cause we aren't supposed to go bare foot.

Hope and I always love to shop the clearance after Christmas: and this is what she said: oh how i miss goodies! i really want some ginger cookies so in my next package send some, go get all the cookies left over when it's the like 50% and 70% off after Christmas, 

She loves ginger cookies

So we pretty much just talked back and forth last night, but I won't leave here without downloading an older picture of our missionary. Enjoy and have a great week! :)

Her Missionary Plaque that me and a couple of friends made before she left.

Bananas

We hope that everyone had a good week, as for our missionary it sounds like she is so busy doing the Lord's work, which is a wonderful thing to be doing. She is down to 1 pair of shoes, and this is what she said about that: So did you ever get a chance to order me some crocs because my other pair of rubber shoes are toast and now I'm down to one pair :( and if worst comes to worst i'll try finding decent shoes here. 

so this week i got a letter from you :) Oh and i was teaching a lesson and a kid was wearing a "I survived the road to Hana' shirt. and i just remember how i did NOT survive that road to Hellna! :P haha 

So is Madrid still MIA? 

 Madrid is our cat that disappeared a couple of months ago, just so that you know who she is talking about. 

Then later she responded to me with this about the crocs:  Thank you so much. size 9 and yes white please mosquito's love black and so if you wear black shoes your ankles get attacked :(  Yay a package :), I had no idea that black would attract the mosquito's that bad. So a white pair will be on their way later this week.

Well here are the pictures from this week, she was having a hard time downloading them for some reason, she really wanted to download and send the pictures from Thanksgiving, but couldn't. So hopefully they will be on next week. She mentioned that one of her sister room mates mom's sent a bunch of Thanksgiving stuff and they had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Me and My Companion our first night in our apt. We had no plates just silver ware and someone bought us a chicken.

The Bacarra Elders

Taking a few moments to play

That is one old slide

playtime

some bananas

Well that's it for this this week, until next time. We pray that everyone is in good health and looking forward to the Christmas season.

Bacarra

Hey Everyone, I hope that you had a great week, as for our Little Missionary Miss Hope, She seemed to have a great week.This might be a little jumbled, but here are some excerpts from her email yesterday, I wrote and told her that a package was on it's way and this is what she replied: Aww I am so excited for my package :) I will love it i know it! :) So how was church today? Yesterday we had 4 investigators at church :) We had these 2 really old ladies who are sisters and we were very surprised to see them there because they told us that they weren't coming but they came, i just love little miracles like that! :)

I have found that when I send Hope a package to plaster a bunch of Mother Mary pictures all over the box, with doing this, she has received every package so far: knock on  wood~~~~
This is what said about the package: haha the mother Mary pictures just kill me they are so creepy and i just love it! :)

And she sent alot of pictures this week: But before the pictures I heard from her companion and her companion wrote  this with 2 pictures attached:

Dear Mama Kenfield, 

How are you? :) 

Sister Kenfield and I locked ourselves out of apartment on our second day in Bacarra. That's probably November 6.

It is so hot in Bacarra that I ran out of water an hour into proselyting so we decided to go back to our apartment to refill our bottles. On our way out, I noticed that my entire water bottle spilled in my bag and my scriptures, all my things were wet. I hung my bag outside our apartment and just got my other one so we could hurry out. As soon as I closed our door I realized that our key was in my wet bag. 

We tried to tao po at our next door neighbor's home so we can just reach over the wall for my bag but no one was answering. Sis. Kenfield suggested we just climb. She was supposed to do it but she couldn't so I went up and crossed the top of the wall. SEE THE PHOTOS! Hahaha. 

As soon as I got the key from my bag, our neighbor came out asking, "Sister, what are you doing?" It was embarrassing haha. But all is well, our neighbor doesn't hate us. :)

Ummm MMmm

This is her companion. so glad that they found their keys.

Her last baptism before leaving Vigan: Hope sure does love this lady. This lady will become a very strong member of the church that is for sure!

Group Picture

On Thursday's and Saturday's Hope made french toast: this seems to be one of her favorite breakfast foods while on her mission.

With Members

She looks like she is wearing piggy tails, but she's not!
Love this picture

This is a new picture of her zone in Bacarra

Hope looks so happy!

Well that is it for this week, I hope that you enjoyed the pictures. And if you are wondering, Hope does write long letters home, I don't share those often, I just like sharing news from her e-mails.

But from her last letter she is doing the Lord's work, and she strives everyday to be a good missionary. She loves the Philippine people.

Oh, yesterday was my birthday, and this is how she finished her email:Happy Birthday :) Love you! :),

So until next time: I pray that everyone has a good day. and God Bless!!!!

KFC

Hope has certainly had a couple busy weeks, 2 weeks ago she had her first transfer to a small town in her mission called Bacarra, her companion is Sister Sese, whom she just ha connected with so well.
In her email last night she opened with this: I am doing great, I just stuffed face at KFC :) it was delicious they have never ending gravy :) I do know Elder HanoHano. Wow, that is crazy! Does she know any Oden's from Hawaii? Cause Elder Oden and Elder HanoHano know each other they are both from Hawaii. But Elder Oden's family moved to the Big Island. I have had alot of emails making sure that i was ok. My Zone Leaders mom was on TV because she posted on facebook that her twin sons were in the Philippines and the news caught that and interviewed her. Elder Ewell is his name, his twin is in Cebu right where all the mess went down but don't worry he's OK. That is so nice that faith and James came down :) I bet it was really nice to see them. Oh dad took 4 days off, fun :) yay McKell, i am so glad to hear that she is doing so well! Oh poor Tylers mom, but 3 weeks i bet he is excited! I am safe dont' worry. the next baptisms are in December on the 7th. haha and all i can hear in my head is Scott saying "December 7, 1941" haha well love you.

yep KFC filipina style and guess what is so delicious. gravy on rice. who woulda thought :p

I miss you too! Alot. :) I love the pictures you took of the fam :) it made my heart smile: Here is one of the pictures.

Walking down a path

I'm guessing that this is advertising about the Dengue fever incase you are bit by a mosquito. Go to know!

"Aircon" Her "Lifeline"

Taken at one of the hospitals

Making Longosia

After the baptism

Another baptism: Hope thinks the world of this lady!!!

This one made my day: This was taken on Halloween and Hope and her companion dressed up as each other: Totally made my day. 

Well that is all for now, I pray that everyone is doing well, May God Bless all of you and keep you safe.

Have a great day!

1st Transfer

Transfer time for our Missionary:
Last night in Hope's email she told me that she was definitely being transferred! She seems so excited about this, A couple of weeks ago she wasn't as excited about the change, but she seems to be doing OK with it now. Which is a good thing. She also knows who her companion is, and she is so happy about it, because she knows that Sister quite well.
She had a baptism on Saturday, the person who was baptized has become a good friend to Hope, I wouldn't be surprised if she and her beautiful family were to come to America one day for a visit.
Here are the pictures that she posted:

Her companion seemed to be a very good sprot that day1 Looks like fun!

Sister's Crook, Rico and Kenfield

A/C or as they call it in the Philippines Aircon

Love the broom

Doing Service

Our girl is doing so well, She looks so happy, I know without a shadow of a doubt that Hope is in the right place at the right time!
Thanks for reading our blog, Until Next Time: May God Bless all of you.