We got Mail

Yesterday we got 2 letters from Hope in the Mail! I was so excited to get them, they were both full of a lot of information that she already had given me, they were both written back in May and June, and then in July she found a POST OFFICE!!! Yes her area has a post office~~~~

Here are the pictures of the letters that arrived!

This is a picture of the Baptismal  Program for her 1st. Baptism

This is the program from her second baptism


Here is a picture of 3 more baptisms, I think they were done on the same day as Merlinda's baptism, but Hope said they didn't have a program.

Then Hope sent this picture of the

SOUTH CHINA SEA

Beautiful

I hope that you enjoyed these pictures. Thank-you for visiting our blog.

Number 8

It was so awesome to email with our missionary yesterday, it was her 20th Birthday!!! She really didn't have a whole heck of  a lot to say, except that the baptism went very well.

She was able to send some baptism and birthday pictures, so here they are:

 Her with a beautiful Sister Paa

I am so glad that she got a birthday cake and some kind of celebration, Hope is big on birthday's!

 Happy Birthday to you
 Happy Birthday to you
 Happy Birthday Dear Hope
 Happy Birthday to you!!

 Hope and Her Companion share the same Birthday!

Happy Birthday Girls

The card that she is holding is the one we sent her, I am so glad that she got her card!

Birthday celebration!!!

                              Don't ask!!! Don't know!!!                Thawing out the freezer during a power 

                                                                                                              outage!

                                   That is my daughter!

 Hope seems to be doing very well, Mentioned that she got tons of emails from a lot of people, so thank-you for sending them, I know it totally made her day.

 I am hoping that next week she will have more to say, but with only having 1 hour each week on her P-Day to check emails and respond back, I am sure that she is really busy in that hour.

 Well everyone, thanks for reading this week! We really appreciate your support.

Lucky #7~~~

To all of our readers of    ... and God Created the Philippines ~~~ Thank-you for visiting. We really appreciate it~~~ 

 I heard from our Missionary last night! She is doing really good, she and her companion have some baptisms coming up on the 27th of July, she is so excited about this. Remember in one of her earlier emails, when she talked about the first baptism that she had, well anyway, it's his Mother that is one of the baptisms coming up, Hope has truly helped that family, when she talks about them, you can tell that she truly loves this family.

 Ok, Last night she told me that it is taking 9 days for letters to arrive in the mission home, even the dearelders, and last week she received lots of letters! It totally made her day. So keep writing her, her mail is getting to the Mission home, and it piles up waiting for her until her zone leader brings it to her,  But she is getting mail Yes!!!! Unfortunately she hasn't received any packages yet, I am hoping by the first of next month that she will get the package I sent to her at the beginning of June, and I hope that she gets it in one piece without it having been tampered with.

 She really didn't write a long email, she is hoping to somehow get a letter out in the mail, we'll see if that gets accomplished, if so, then I should be receiving a letter in the next few weeks.

 Here are a couple of pictures that she sent, 1- Her Zone~ notice that she and one other Sister Missionary are Caucasian, and notice that her Zone is getting bigger.  2- Her and her companion~~~ So enjoy the pictures!

this picture was taken in a tricy

Hope looks so happy

Well that is all I have for this week

I know that she would love to hear from you. 

Heard from our Missionary #6

I heard from our Missionary last night! Yay, she wasn't on very long, but she said this about her new companion: 

Things with the new companion sister C3 are wonderful! She is great and she is Filipino thank the good Lord. We get along great! But I do miss the other Sisters ! But guess who I did see, SISTER R! She isn't training but I saw her at the mission home it was so good to see her! She wrote me a letter and it was just so sweet! I really have missed her! 

Hope also sent a few pictures that I am going to share with you, the one of her meeting house caught me off guard, It is bigger than what I had expected. 

The Church that she attends

And here are a couple of pictures of her and Sister R!

2 peas in a pod

She also wrote this: Oh the day we got our new companions 2 of my fellow missionaries sang the star spangled banner and I almost cried it was so nice to hear something familiar!

Here are some more pictures:

This is a picture of her district

When she sent this picutre she said, this is what happens when your companion abandons you! That's all she said, no other information was given! Sad Sad face!

Then she put up some other pictures: 

And that's about it folks for this week, she is doing great, Please if you get a minute please send her an email.

Email #6, It's a long one, So I hope you have time to read it!

Hope sent a long email last night, the great thing was, she got on the internet to check her emails early! So I actually got to bed at a decent hour last night. She sems to be doing very well. When I aasked her if she got transferred this was her response: No, but my companion did :( so did Sister C's companion :( so we are alone just the two of us and it is a bit creepy, but it's only until Thursday when we go and pick up our new companions, cause we are training .... and I am super nervous about it! I don't speak the language, and now i have to teach people, luckily the branch president is more than willing to help us, so he is getting us fellowshippers everyday for like 12 weeks! I hope! oh gosh I am seriously freaking out here! I know that she will be just fine, she will be a great trainer. Here are some pictures of the 4 room-mates before 2 of them left for another area:

So here is Hope's long email, I seems a little jumbled, but she only had a small amount of time to write it: So here it is: My week so far has gone good, the zoo last Monday was so much fun and my zone leader got a priceless video of me and sister C. and I am having him copy it to a flash drive to send to you :) you will laugh haha. And then we taught some people and it was great I am starting to talk to people more and BT which is build trust and relationships. I teach this one recent convert girl  and I just love her she is so sweet, and she helps me with my Tagalog:) and we usually teach her on Monday evenings after P-Day and I just love teaching her and her cousin  who is like 36 is a Tagalog teacher so when I go there I learn a lot :) They are so nice I got my picture taken with them yesterday so I’ll attach it. Then on Tuesday we taught this woman  she is such a sweet woman and she always wants to hug me haha. Then we went to the another family and they are so nice. I hope they come to church! Ha and then we went to  and she made us Pansit and it was so delicious! I love visiting  she is so smart and she learns so much, and her husband is finally starting to listen to our discussions. And then we went and visited she is the daughter of a recent convert.  and we get along great because my first week here I thought I was gonna die and I was being very negative in my head and then we went to visit _ and she was so nice and so sweet and so I look up to her cause she is so positive for how hot this place is! She wants to get baptized but she has to come to church for at least 4 Sundays and then she is good to go :) And then we went and taught antoehr family, the son was my first baptism anywho he has a sister  and I just love her she is so smart and she is so nice she is 15 or 16 I can't remember but she is so receptive to the messages and she will do great things I just know it! Her dream is to come to the US and I told her our door is always opened to her! I love teaching this family, right now we are preparing the Mom for baptism yay! So hopefully she'll get baptized on the 27th of July and confirmed on the 28th whoot whoot! I sure hope so! I am so glad that my birthday is on a Sunday because I will get to go where there is air conditioning! :) Anywho so on Wednesday we went to someones house again and while my companion was teaching our investigator I just sat there showing the picture book to her kids so that they wouldn't scream! :) then we went toto another investigators house who is  preparing for baptism. she is so nice even though I don't understand a single word she says cause she speaks Ilocano... but she will be baptized. or else! Then we went and visited all the 3 who got baptized last Saturday it was good they are so happy! So I was just reminded about something that happened this week, so I was in the bathroom about to shower when Sister C. screamed 'SISTER KENFIELD’ come here' so I wrapped up in my towel and ran into the laundry room and there was a huge spider that she needed me to kill because surprisingly I kill all the bugs around our apartment haha, and so many cockaroaches have lost their lives because of me, ha which reminds me of another story. So me and Sister C. were in the laundry room the other night around 10pm and I looked over near our stove and there was a hug cockroach so I grabbed the pliers we use to turn on the stove and I smashed it but it only lost the bottom half of itself, but it was still alive and twitching, so right before I cleaned it up I said who is cooking tomorrow I hope it's C. and it was! So I thought I would leave it for her to find in the morning haha cause she hates bugs and lizards and frogs. Anyway so the next morning I went and was sitting at my desk waiting for her to go in the laundry room to the stove, so when she finally went in she wasn't even there for 3 seconds before she was yelling 'Sister Kenfield I hate you' and I played dumb and asked 'why now?' and she said 'ewww its still twitching' I ran in there and yes it was still twitching and it had been like 10 hours.... Anywho so back to Thursday we had a district meeting and it went great!Then we went and visited another convert. who is this lady who got baptized a few months ago and she is awesome she refers all her friends,  anywho I just love teaching her cause she is so awesome and she loves church. She always goes every week even if she doesn't have any money and she starts walking to church at 3am so she'll be there on time. :) She is a wonderful woman I love her! Then we went to some referrlas from a member and she has 2 little children. Then we went to another family and taught a child she is so cute! She is the smallest person I have ever seen, she is so little! :) but she is so cute and she always sings for us :) she sang Army of Helamen in Tagalog and I am still in awww! Ok and then we have an investigator family theMom came to church yesterday with her 2 youngest sons! I was so happy to see her there! :) Friday we went with the Elder couple one of my investigators and it was good because everyone that was there listened, we got like 5 new investigators that day! :) then we went to the guy that literally lives on the beach! So we went again ha-ha it was so pretty, prettier than the one we usually go to, I have pics :) after that we went and visiteda less active member, but he has been coming to church lately so Yay! :) he fellowships with us when we teach his cousin, Tagalog and English so it's super helpful :) then we went to the another family's house and taught them all, and then they had us eat this really delicious soup; and I don't even wanna know what was in it but I ate it :) Oh I also ate some kind of egg dish NO it wasn't Balut GROSS! T hen on Saturday we went and did some visiting a new convert and her daughter. she got baptized a few months ago and she has 2 cute little daughters, Sister P. has a really cute picture of me with one of them so I hope she sends it to you  Then this part of her email was just answers to what I had put in my email to her: I am so glad to hear that the summer games went well and now that they are over what are you gonna do to fill your time? When was your little get together or when is it? I am so glad you had helped this year :) I am so glad that Cierra went to GC this year tell her I was jealous of her! Dad is a hero that is for sure, when people ask me about my family I always say that my Dad is my hero! :) And he is! I can't believe the Old Coca-Cola place burned, that would not be fun and not getting any sleep would be even less fun. Sorry there are so many typing errors I am typing so fast and I haven't been studying English so I may lose it. Why did faith move? And isn't Kerissa married? haha well I am happy for her I hope she saves up :) I know this email is super long, I’ll attach pictures now. So here are some pictures that she sent, I hope that you enjoy them:

More Pictures:

And this is how she ended the emails last night: Love you all! :)