30 Days left!

Hello!

I Know. In 30 days I’ll be in the states and honestly that frightens me. haha.  I bought some souvenirs this week!  Also I have a few questions:

1. Do I need to bring home any shirts , clothes or anything? Like what if I come home with two white shirts and just my suit and leave everything else here

Tag-ulan started this week. Except in the mornings we hardly see the sun anymore. On Tuesday we were eating at a birthday party and the rain came down like a hurricane for about 40 minutes then stopped. By the time we got to Kuya Baldos house, the rain picked up again so malakas I didn’t think we would make it home. On Wednesday we had DDM in Guimba at 10:00am. at 9:00 E Cope, E Fort, and I held a Leadership Training Meeting with E Kunz and E Weimer because the're both new District Leaders. most of what we taught them was the things E Neilson taught us back in February. We ate lunch at Jollibee (na naman). We taught Sister Montero (our recent convert) but itwas no good because her kids were having a circus during our discussion. Her bunso cried and cried and cried because I wouldnt give him any money. On the way home we saw the Francisco Family and they invited us to dinner. Also today was E Bellens birthday. I never in a million years thought my mission would even be close to ending. 30 days from now, I'll be at the mission home getting ready to leave. Patay talaga. 

Its been about 6 months that I've been teaching a Sister  the LA who married a Joe, and I'm just now beginning to understand her concern. She doesn't know how to help her kids embrace the gospel again, and she feels its unfair if she comes back into activity and her kids won't follow suit. She wants them all to come back sabay-sabay. On the bright side, we saw the a Family I really love today! They've been in the bukid for the last two months and haven't come to the bayan so I was super excited to see them again.
1. The Lord will do anything and everything to continue His work. He truly cares about all His children, He truly directs the affairs of His kingdom, and He has provided for our salvation.

2. Filipinos prioritize other people before themselves like no other people in the world. The Family got home maybe 2 hours before we stopped by, and before we left they gave us mangoes and probably 1 kilo of bigas. They don't have any kuryente in their house and they have to cross street to get water, ganoon sila kahirap. And somehow they still find it in their hearts to give us food without us even mentioning a thing.

Friday morning I woke up and said "Sleep has not yet fled from my eyes. I need to walk around before I pray so I don't fall asleep again." So I walked outside and the crazy guy who shouts all day and night walked past our house and began shouting. I was so afraid that he saw me and was coming to the house that my heart skipped a beat. But on the bright side, it helped me wake up. E Batoy and I worked together ,and E Cope worked in Guimba 3 because they had a baptismal interview. We couldn't teach anybody because everyone was at MYC in Pangasinan, nakaka-bad trip!

Saturday we worked in Franza and saw our branch on their way home from MYC, so they gave us a ride back to the bayan. This afternoon we got punted a bunch, ngunit ganoon talaga. 

ok cool. so i decided i want to run Cross Country at BYU after I am finished in Oregon.  but their cross country team is incredibly fast. ok we're out of time. talk to you next week. i love you!