I Wore A Sweater In Boracay

This ones gonna be a long one but pleeeeeeeeassseeaah reeeeaddd it. 

MONDAY

It rained inside our apartment - house 2.0 with indoor rain feature.

TUESDAY

We had a fire DCM.
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We ride our bikes literally everyone (duh) and other than the fact that my entire body hurts after, it's so fun. It's like I'm just going on an adventure every day with teaching side quests. JOKE LANG stay focused sister larson.

Navitas fish ponds

WEDNESDAY

Biking adventure again. We just tried to keep up with our worker all day. This is Brother Jeff. He would ride ahead and then meet us at all our appointments. BASKOG. He also recently informed me Linkin Park has a new lead vocalist and she's in fact a she. Brother Jeff keeps me informed on the important stuff. 
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THURSDAY

This is the part all of you were waiting for. Thursday Sister Castañaga and I traveled to BORACAY. We technically weren't supposed to but we heard the beaches are really pretty so we just took a quick drive….. BOOM PRANKED AGAIN. We went to Boracay for (approved) exchanges with the amazing, baskuerg, gwapa Boracay Sisters. 

We had to take a trike, a bus, a trike again, a BOAT, and then another trike and cross several floaty bridges. 

Bus

The most expensive ferry ticket with an environmental fee. (They didn't believe me when I told them I am in fact a native- no discount for white girlies). 

Scoliosis bigfoot wearing keens sighted in Boracay (thanks for the candids Sister Castañaga).
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FRIDAY

AHHHH FRIDAY I WORKED WITH SISTER NANG IN BORACAY.

@Sister Bentley the people in Boracay miss you so much. They kept being like- wait you're a kana too, when the heck is Sister Bentley coming back? We miss her. 

Ok so our exchanges were so good. First of all Sister Nang is a girlboss so I was just taking notes the whole time. And second of all, the members and people they are teaching are so dedicated. Ok here are so many pictures. 

HAPPY FIRST EXCHANGES DIN KAY SISTER LUCAS!!! MWA. 

Meeting cool Boracay people. 

We taught the word of wisdom to the Espanola family and set a baptism date for 3 of them!

We met some of the most dedicated members ever. This tatay used to have to take a boat to get to church on Sunday but now Boracay group is progressing. Also met the coolest kid ever. He's just recently baptized and he was telling us everything he is doing to try and get his parents to come to church.
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BORACAY
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So I'm definitely gonna have to go back. We ate lunch near the beach and then took a few pictures, bought a flower clip and had a guy ask me if I wanted a massage “now and forever”. 

SISTER NANG AHHHH. SO BASKOG. I still like you, even though you're short and from Davao. But fr fr Sister Nang is a legit amazing missionary. 

Huhuhu she's going home sooon.

Please forgive me for wearing a sweater. It had been raining really hard and I thought maybe it would be a bit chilly on the white sand beaches..

Once our exchanges were done we had to walk across the floaty port again. Ride a boat in the dark and then hop into a van. But guess what. I didn't even throw up.
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SATURDAY

who even cares it wasn't in Boracay.

3RD PRANK. Our work was amaze balls on Saturday and our Relief Society President is an absolute beast and biked with us to one of our farthest areas in the pouring rain. 

First of all, this cool fam.

Sister Castañaga in her rain gear. LOVE YOU SIS.

The bike ride from Ibao to Mina. It's giving the Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

I look like an NPC in this pic but LOOK it's our RS president biking with us in the bukid. 
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SUNDAY

Sunday sometimes feels like the harvest day everyway. You work all week and then just pray and pray and pray the people you invited will come to church. So when church started on Sunday we had a few people there and we were feeling ok but some of the people we were really excited about didn't come. Then like 30 minutes into the meeting we had like 4 different friends show up! fashionably late lang. We got a picture but I don't know who's phone we took it on. RIP

The more time I have spent in Numancia to more our amazing youth and YSA workers have become some of my favorite people. All three are preparing for missions and they are going to be amazing. Also wish I had known you can like work with the missionaries before my mission. That would have been chill. 
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I NEED THEE EV'RY HOUR

I think I have probably sung this song every day of my mission. I have been brought to my knees many times saying “ I need help right now” or “Heavenly Father, please help me feel your love”. This song has brought me tremendous comfort through the ups and downs of mission life. I know we can find peace in Christ. He is our enabler and Savior. He is with us in both joy and pain. He loves you and knows your divine potential and eternal worth. 

“I need thee ev’ry hour,

In joy or pain.

Come quickly and abide,

Or life is vain.

I need thee, oh, I need thee;

Ev’ry hour I need thee!

Oh, bless me now, my Savior;

I come to thee!”
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SISTER LARSON

PHILIPPINES, ILOILO MISSION

AUGUST 2023- FEBRUARY 2025





















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