This week has
gone by super fast for me! Sundays are not a rest day haha. they are the
busiest day for us! good thing pday is the next day.
I am doing good, still
healthy and happy and the work is going good! We had a temple tour last Saturday
and I had to introduce the restoration movie and then share my testimony to all
the visitors and investigators. I was nervous but a lot of missionaries came up
to me afterwards and were like, wow! your tagalog was perfect! You are doing so
good! That made me feel really good. i wish i wasn't such a perfectionist. i
think that learning a language teaches you a lot of patience and the ability to
just accept your best, because as soon as i get discouraged, everything else is
affected, including my language. It's hard to be corrected constantly and this
guy the other day interrupted me in the middle of my testimony and told sister
nobleza to speak because i was obviously having a hard time. i almost cried
because i knew everything i said was right but it was the way i was speaking that
he didn't want to listen. Sometimes it feels hopeless like i'll never learn this
language or people will never focus on the message because they're so busy
listening to how i speak. but i know i can't think like that. i need to just be
patient and keep doing my best.
Well this week
was pretty much same ol same ol. we taught jerrill with her husband ponce for
the first time both of them together. we showed them the together forever movie
and they loved it. they are an awesome couple with two little girls. the dad is
62 and the mom is 28 so there is a huge age gap but he's super sweet to her.
he's always doing the laundry, cooking, and taking care of the kids. he told us
that he loves his wife so much and whatever she believes, he will believe also.
she is super receptive and i love teaching them. we also taught christian again
about getting answer to prayer and he totally understood. he is super talented
in drawing but he doesn't have money for supplies so he just uses pen and he
doesn't have money for school so he just looks up different techniques on a
computer in a computer shop and tries to learn that. he really wants to work
for dc comics or something or any comic place really but he has no money for
school and he's having to look for a job to help support his mom and dad. he
has a lot of faith though and you can tell he is really digesting everything we
tell him. we also taught tatay billy and found out that his wife left him when
he got a stroke and he never sees his kids. he lives alone in a tiny shack so
that he can rent out his home and that's how he gets money. He is SUCH a sweet
guy, and always so nice to us. i can't believe some people's situations here!
It makes me wonder why i ever felt sorry for myself or like I NEEDED an Ipod or
whatever else, while these people are just trying to survive day by day and are
still so happy and offering us time to teach them.
Anyway, I love it here and
it's starting to feel more and more like home. The happier I get and the harder
i work, the more I feel like satan is working on me and trying me and
discouraging me. It is a constant battle! But I am learning so much and getting
spiritually stronger. Well, I love you and miss you tons!
Love, Age
