I'm A Dangerous Man With Some Money In My Pocket

Hellooooooo! It's been another crazy and great week. The theme of this week is Bruno Mars and falling asleep during language study. This week my schedule was less crazy than last but we still did lots. I've been really working on trying to enjoy how long the days are and make every moment count instead of just looking forward to the next time I get to eat or rest or call home. Also I've been trying to give myself some credit for what I actually do right. #lol #selflove. Now open your eyes. Let me take you on a journey through sections, photos and Bruno Mars references. 

WHATS THE DEAL WITH BRUNO MARS

First of all Bruno Mars is well-loved here. He's Filipino and swaggy. Anyway, this week our neighbors were painting their fence and they hooked up a speaker and we're blasting Bruno Mars for like 3 days straight. Valid. But now I've had his music stuck in my head. Anyway, I made some banana chips last night but I totes burned them. So what does that have to do with Bruno Mars? Idk but I felt like a dangerous man with some money in my pocket that's for sure. 
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OUR VISIT WITH JUDITH!

Judith is an interested person we've been teaching on and off for a few weeks now! She is a cute mom in her 40s and she has a really solid understanding of the Bible and Christ's doctrine in general. This week we had exchanges again which means I worked for a day with Sister Rascano again! So Sister Rascano and I visited Judith and taught her about the Plan of Salvation. We were teaching her kinda on her front porch and while we were teaching her a drunk man walked up and kept asking me and Sister Rascano for our number and if we would be his girlfriends. We ignored him as best we could and actually had a really solid lesson. There were some kids who joined and anytime the drunk man would try and talk they would sush him and tell him to go away. Even though he was actively trying to disrupt our lesson it still went really well and we were able to invite her to be baptized! She is praying about it and we are excited to see her continue to grow!

COOL PEOPLE

We do a lot of talking to random people on the street and 90% of the time the people are so so kind. This week we met a group of fishermen who knew Sister Fifita and they wanted to have us say hi for them. We met a family last week who all wanted the Bible so yesterday we delivered 5 sets of Bibles and Books of Mormon! They loved them and some of them even started reading the Book of Mormon while we were there. This family lives in a compound so there are tons of kids and teenagers. We had everyone right down their name if they wanted a Book of Mormon and next week we are delivering 11 Books of Mormon to them! We also met Nanay Bilbao! Her husband passed away but before he passed away he was having missionaries over. Now Nanay remember him by the Book of Mormon even though she is not a member. We also worked for a day in our neighboring area because the Elders there had a referral that they couldn't get to that day. We don't know that area so we brought workers with us and we met the cooler family. They had been taught by missionaries before and when we asked them what they remembered they started telling us the first vision. Soooo that never happens. Anyway we talked with them and scheduled a return appointment but since it's not our area the Elders will work with them from here on out.
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HILIGAYNON

So my language is getting better and I'm also getting better and just walking up to people and starting a conversation smoother than a fresh jar of skippy. I can teach lessons better than I can just talk to people in the language because with lessons I know most of the vocabulary I'll need to use beforehand. But overall it's kinda crazy that I've only been learning Hiligaynon for like 4 ish months now and for the most part I can understand and respond to people. Obviously it's still just an itsy bitsy problem when people only  speak Tagalog or Caray-ah but for the most part we can still communicate. 

LAKAT LAKAT

Guess what. This week I walked a lot. And sometimes that makes me feel like this.
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PATIENCE AND JOY

Now for the good part. Patience is something I've been trying to be better at since day one of my mission. I used to just think patience was being able to sit in a waiting room or make it to the end of a Statistics class but I'm learning that that kind of patience is really just surviving and just surviving is not that fun. Preach My Gospel defines patience as " the capacity to trust God as you fave delay, opposition or suffering." And it says " Patience is not idleness or passive resignation." In a quote from Dieter F. Uchtdorf he said " patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!". I'm pretty good at enduring but I'm learning that I'm not always great at enduring well. I know I have quote this before but in D&C 123:17 it says " let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and them may we stand still, with the utmost assurance to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed." Patience is trusting in God's plan and His timing. It is trusting that, through Christ, we can endure any trial and we can do it cheerfully. I know that trusting in God's timing and relying on the Atonement of Christ is the only way to joyfully endure each day, each trial and each challenge. We all need Christ. We need to access his power through prayer and faith and receive personal revelation and comfort through prayer and scripture study. If we patiently wait, answers and relief will come. 

I love my Savior. I love my family and I love this gospel. The work is good.

Sister Larson



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