Meet Ronica And Irish

Weekly email

Hellooooooo! This week we had zone conferences, exchanges and stake conference. So we were super busy but it wasn't really in an exciting way…. Lots of time spent traveling. So it was a long week but still good. 

Also I heard that my last email was hard to read because of the format for some people so I'll try it this way one more time and if it goes wierd again I'll go back to the old way.

Here are some nice little sections for you

JEEPNEY

Ok so, what is a Jeepney? For those of you non-filipinos heres a little explanaton. Jeepneys are my main transportation and I take at least two a day. Its like if a new york taxi, a party limo and a free range chicken had a baby. So the front is like a normal car and then the back is like the covered bed of a truck with benches all along the sides and open air windows. The back is open so you just hop in from the back. The main carriage can usually fit about 20 people and then two people can sit up front with the driver, 2-6 stand on the rear bumper and then sometimes there are people that sit on top to. If you think you can find a place to sit its free game. So you just stick your hand out for the jeepney, hop on, find a place to sit, pay the driver and then say " sa lugar lang" when you pass where you want to go. The drivers normally play the radio and turn of colorful lights. Also they drivers be just taking phone calls, driving with one hand, stopping for snacks and reaching back to accept payments all while driving at top speeds. Good stuff.

The inside of a Jeepney 
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RONICA

The one in the lighter pink shirt is Ronica and if everything goes as planned she will be baptized on the 30th!!! She is 16 years old and many of her family members have joined the church! 
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IRISH

This is Irish! She's also 16 years old and is currently praying about baptism! She loves the Book of Mormon and she likes speaking English to me so thats always a plus.

We tried to visit Irish again this week and there was a stupid cow in the path but her family lives in the middle of a flooded rice field so we couldn't go around the cow. Anyway I was like trying to scare it and then feed it to get it to move and the dumb thing would not move. Eventually one of Irish's sisters came out and told us Irish wasn't home. Then the cow moved. I hate that cow.
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EXCHANGES

As always we had exchanges this week and I got to work with Sister Francisquete and Sister Tierra! We fed a monkey accidentally. (I can't explain, I just want you to imagine)

Sister Tierra is Ilocano which is one of the many dialects here in the Philippines and she does cultural dances. So whenever she get excited she starts dancing. Good vibes from Sister Tierra.
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SISTER YOU ARE TOO HEAVY

Sister Fifita and I worked together for about 3 hours this week because both of our comps had a leadership meeting. This photo was taken after the incident. We were, once again, having a 10 minute panic lesson with Homer and this time his geat nephew, Andy (I'm actually still not sure how they're related because they speak Caray-ah and Tagalog). Anyway at the end of the lesson Andy said something about his cousin Joseph but Sister Fifita thought he said Joseph Smith so she got all excited and kinda bounced in her seat. I feel it's important to note that we were on plastic chairs on an uneven and sloped dirt hill. Really she just leaned forward a little and then quickly backward and bam. Both of our chairs snapped. Homer said "Sister you are too heavy".  classic. They wanted to take a picture with it and now I have the leg of a chair in our apartment. Actually we wrote the date on it and stuff. 

If i looked distressed in this photo its because I am.
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We also had zone con this week but we don't have the photos yet. It was kinda boring, kinda fun but mostly really great to finally meet all the cool missionaries in my zone! 

This week was lots and lots of walking to appointments just to find no one home. By the time we get to the apartment at night my back hurts and I want to eat a whole chocolate cake. But instead I open the fridge, see no chocolate cake and drink some gatorade or something. Missionary work is hard and I miss being cold but its also so so good. 

LOVE ONE ANOTHER

This week I was studying the new testament because most of our IPs are Catholic or at least Christian so I want to become more knowledgeable about the bible. I was reading in John when Christ is repeatedly trying to tell his disciples that he would die but come back. In some of his final hours he gave them the commandment to love one another. Loving others is the true mark of discipleship. Those who truly know and love Jesus love others too. I love the quote from Elder Giraud-Carrier, he said "Love others because it is the right thing to do, not because they are doing the right thing." Christ spent most of his days with sinners, outcasts and rejects. He loved those deemed unlovable and undeserving. If we love Christ we should do the same. I've been realizing more and more that it can be easy to love those who clearly need help, but far more often than that, there are people around us who appear fine but really need love just as much as those who are outwardly struggling. Lazarus may be in your classroom, the woman with an issue of blood may be your co-worker. Christ sees and loves all. He can heal your outward and inward struggles. He loves us perfectly and asks us to try to do the same.

I love Christ. I love the Book of Mormon. I love my family and love being a missionary.

Sister Larson




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