have a mentioned how much i love you all?
I LOVE my companion. i am learning so much tagalog haha you know how i tend to copy things? like the way people talk, etc. so instead of her learning hiligaynon i am just learning tagalog hahaha because she teaches in taglish (tagalog english) so I end up using tagalog when i teach haha. we also now have a senior couple assigned in sipalay, the neffs, elder neff looks just like the old man from the pixar short who plays chess with himself. so adorable. they come teach with us for one or two appointments a day, its the best. but our poor investigators, they have sister rosario speaing tagalog, me in hiligaynon, them in english, and the investigator just tries to reply in this mixture of all three haha. like "YES. BELIEVE I NGA TUOD ANG CHURCH TALAGA" hahaha so great. and i thought it was bad little ol white me walking around, we can barely move when the neffs aree with us because we are just surrounded. and they don't understand what the kids say, but i do, so i end up doing a lot of chastising... those darn youths. bastos ba.
but really me and sister rosario are doing great. i thin i mentioned last time that she is super prepared when it comes to teaching, its so nice to not have to regress in that sense. and she WORKS i love it. she knows why she is here. the funniest things happen to us but only i thin they are funny. lie when we pray at night and she prays in good but not perfect english and says "please watch us as we sleep" hahahaha #edwardcullen
we are dealing with a lot of reluctant spouses. our investigators are ready and willing to be baptized and then behind them is a spouse saying no. i could neverrrrrrrrr have a relationship that was so unequal. one of our investigators is getting tired of it, she complained to us last time about how her husband will just always go drink with his friends after work and comes home drunk, she aasked a little accusingly "what would you do if you were me?" i answered "I would apply the gospel!" honestly, what we are teaching this people IS the answer and the only way. How can you ever have a successful relationship without repentance, forgiveness, faith, patience, understanding, charity, etc. The gospel is not meant to sit inside a bible and gather dust, it truly is the answer if we will only apply it. People are always looing for another way, like being skinny for instance, they would rather do all these crazy diets that they read in a magazine and take pills and starve themselves rather than just eat healthy and exercise. The scriptures have examples too, remember the man who wanted to be healed from his skin disease and was told to wash in a dirty river but didn't want to because it was so simple and he didn't understand why? or the people of moses who refused to just look at the serpent and be healed? or laman and lemuel who just wanted to complain and not study it out for themselves and ask god? Humans. hahahhaa. I love the gospel.
do you know how cool is it that im in the scriptures? actually we all are!! I can't read jacob 5 or anything about gathering and last days without feeling sooooooo awesome. I literally go out every day and gather the righteous from the wicked in preparation for the second coing of the savior jesus christ. what??? i am the most blessed person ever. i still get butterflies touching my nametag!! and i have dreams that i still wear it at home... at night... so that no one can see me. I literally don't thin i could sleep without it on.
NATEY YOU HAVE THE PRIESTHOOD OH MY GOSH. happy happy happy birthday too!!!!!! LOVEYOUSOMUCHYOUARESOAWESOME
I hope you all have a fantastic week!! I will keep track better of things that happen so i have more to tell next time.
LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.
Sister Manwaring
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