got water? cuz we don't...

February  3, 2020

Not a whole lot of updates this week. We haven't had water for five days now, so that's fun. Not as bad as it seems because we have a water pump thing in the back, so we just haul buckets of water for us to use, but washing dishes and doing laundry isn't too fun...

Church, this past Sunday, was the first time that we have had power for sacrament meeting. I found out you can actually feel the spirit stronger when you hear the speakers haha. Testimony meeting was pretty powerful, as members spoke about how some of them overcame trials during and after all the recent calamities (2 super typhoons hit this area in the last couple months). A less active came to church for the first time in a couple years. She has faced a crazy amount of challenges with her house getting beaten up from the typhoon, and then her cousin died a couple weeks ago. She recounted what had happened by sharing that after the storm hit, workers were trying to fix some of the power issues, so they cut everyone's power and told them it would be back on January 25th. Her 15-year-old cousin was swinging from the power chords on the 21st, when all of the sudden they fixed the power and it came on early. The substantial voltage killed him on the spot. Super sad! We taught her again this morning and talked about temples and Heavenly Father's plan for His children. Spirit was strong and I know she felt God's love for her and that the spirit was telling her that she'll see her cousin again. Her dad, who's not a member, joined the lesson and then said he wanted to learn more about our church, as well as baptism! We just happen to have 2 baptisms, coming up on Saturday, that we invited him to, and he said he'd come!

Besides that, same old, same old in the Philippines!! I get to eat so much fruit everyday and we started running every other morning! So that's a huge perk about the island life!

KIDS WILL DO ANYTHING TO DISTRACT THE MISSIONARIES FROM TEACHING...

Super cute kid posing with me and my comp