I received 2 letters from Hope yesterday, Here is one of letter she wrote~~
August 20, 2013
So I went to to mail your letter and guess what? It was a holiday :( I was so sad, I am so sad! And so I thought I would write you again today to say that you will be getting 2 letter from me on the same day. Anywho so after emailing with you today, we went to a delicious restaurant called Max's, then we went to the tourist trap called Herritage and we just walked from shop to shop it was fun. Then we went to the bookstore for a few office supplies, after that we went to the coolest store; called Novo, they seriously have everything you can imagine there. It is awesome! I would love to bring you to one1 So now it's September 2, 2013, and we woke up an hour early so that we could get some time to write our families :)
So anywho, last P-day when we went to go out and teach, we get to our appointment and guess what? no one was there except 2 young children ages 6 and 10, so we went to some less actives home, and during he opening prayer, and I was not being very reverent because I had my eyes open which was a good thing because their little child grabbed a walking stick and swung it at my companion who was praying, so I reached out and caught it and took it away from the child.
Then we went to the Relief Society 1st counselors house and she is so great! l and guess what, she fed us Hot Cookies, I was in heaven! It was so delicious! Oh how I miss cookies,
So on Tuesday, August 27th, we first went to all those kids who I have my picture with and that lesson was a little rough, we were having a really hard time understanding them but luckily they are very patient children and they got the point of the message:) Then we went to __ and that was a great lesson, she teaches us Tagalog every time we go there and it is so helpful! We went to __ and taught her and _ a happy message, because they were both having really hard days and they really needed to hear something positive! The last lesson was at __, we taught her and her whole family about the Restoration and it went so great. Her brother was so receptive he gave us all of his info. so that the missionaries could find him. Also it was someones birthday there so we got fed and it was delicious. Haha..
Then on Wednesday we met these 2 young men and we luckily had a female fellowshiper with us so we taught them and they seemed interested and we are hoping it was the lesson that interested them, and not the fact that we are 2 Americans. After that we went to some less actives, and they were so sweet, and they both came to church yesterday. I was so happy to see them.
Then later we went over top the_ for a birthday feast, and the Lumpia was wonderful! mmmm good.So on Thursday we had a district meeting and that went good then we went and taught a girl and she was speaking- Ilokano to us so that was a bit confusing... then after that we went to the __ and taught _ and _ taught us how to say "We live here" in Ilokano so that we could say that to the tricy drivers when they try to rip us off.... haha, it actually works! Last lesson on Thursday was to A 14 year old girl and she is and I just love her. She gave us a referral for her friend which brings me to Friday the 30th.
We found her referral and she was so excited to meet with us, we planned to visit her very Saturday. But before we found her we went clear to the Fuerte which is like a 20-30 minute tricy ride away, but we eventually got there and taught _, a recent convert and she is so smart with the gospel.
The last lesson that day, we taught to _, she is so great, she wants to work with us which is so good, she is a recent convert and she has such a strong testimony. She even brought one of her good friends to church yesterday.
On Saturday we walked a lot, first we went to teach the kids but when we got there they weren't home, but one of the kids were, so we told her we would return in a hour. So we decided to walk from Salindeg to San Pedro, I know you don't know these places, but they are really far apart. We ended up crossing a few bridges, trudging through swampy water. We walked across an airport runway. And I got a running start and leaped over a river then made a bamboo bridge for my companion so that she wouldn't get her swede shoes ruined. So then we got trapped with no way around but luckily the person we were going to see wasn't even home, so we didn't have to cross the nastiest, swampy, mossy river. It isn't that great that she wasn't home because I really wanted to teach her! But we set up a time to go on Friday.
After all of that, we crossed a hill to get back to the bridge and guess what? We saw the Sea, It was beautiful! So after that we walked all the way back to Salindeg and the kids weren't there! so we went to _ to teach her daughter , but she wasn't there, so we taught __. Then we went to a baptism that the other Sister Missionaries had.
And a little while after that, we get a text message, and guess who it was? It was a close friend, so we went there and it was so good. She told us she started reading the Book of Mormon again and then shared with us everything she had learned from reading it. It wa great! And the best part about it was all by candlelight.
Then on Sunday we worked with __and __, and first we went to the __ and they welcomed us in with smiles.
After that, we went to __ and she was a lot happier this time. She referred us to her grand kids so it was great. Then we went to ___ and she was so happy to see us. Last place we went yesterday was to __ house and we taught her and 4 young men about the book of Mormon, they all seemed interested. She is already super interested so that is great and when we were leaving she wanted to pay for our tricy, it was so good, and all those young men aka potential Priesthood Holders committed to come to church on Sunday so that is exciting.
Anywho, last night I made french toast and it was sooo good! So now it's almost 7:25 a.m. and we are going to the Stanky Palengke (market) soon, so if I have time when we get back before we go mail our letters I'll let you know how it went.
We are going to the Zoo today, so I'm sure you will the pictures for that soon, or by the time you get this letter you would have seem them already in my email. So the Stanky Palengke was alright, me and another Sister were on exchanges and we got a bunch of produce. Hopefully it's good because we had no idea what we were doing/When we got home, there wa a huge spider, the size of someone palm, so we killed it with bug killer and the Moron that I am, sprayed some in my eyes! haha don't worry, I'm alright. Sister __ took care of me again. But that is why I sent the pictures of me with my face under the faucet.
Gotta go Love you all!
Love, Hope
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