We have 8 new investigators and we had 4 investigators at church yesterday!!!! It was SO great!! We really have such a great ward here and all of the investigators had someone they could sit by during church and not just us.
It was so good to be able to know that the investigators we bring to church will be taken care of even if we won't always be here. I just love this ward. And it definitely is a plus that they want to feed us ALL the time (and it's not always blood).
We had a really funny experience on Saturday. We went to teach one of our referrals. To get to their house you have to walk through a couple fields of banana and coconut trees as well as fields of pineapple plants . It is absolutely gorgeous. Well, when we got to their house, they weren't home. The member that was with us thought they might be at their parents house, so we walked through another field of pineapples to their house.
There was like 7 or 8 people there playing cards, but they stopped and turned their chairs around to listen to us. So as we are teaching, more and more people keep coming to listen to us, so by the end of our lesson, I counted and there were fourteen people there!!!! Ha it was actually really funny. I am 99.9% sure the only reason they were there is because an American was there speaking Tagalog to them. haha! it was fun though. I will have to send a picture of all of them sometime
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This last week and all of this week they are having their "Coco Festival" (coconut festival). They have the streets decorated and every night we can hear music playing in the streets. Plus there are TONS of people here. We are doing our emails earlier today and doing all of our shopping earlier too because they are going to be closing the main road for a big parade today as well. There are lots of vendors here too. I am really not sure everything else they are doing for this festival, but the kids have another 3 day break from school for it, so I am sure these next few days will just be lots of partying. Filipinos like to party.
Life is good here though. I am getting a lot better at Tagalog and I am understanding a little bit more of it everyday. I love the gift of tongues! I love the Philippines and I love San Pablo!
I have a goal to get back to the Philippines as soon as I can because I love it here. It is hard of course and the streets are stinky and there are naked homeless children and litter everywhere and rats in our investigators houses that run right above you during lessons, but I love it.
I am so grateful I am here. I am learning so much about the gospel and the love of our Heavenly Father everyday, but I am also learning how to live with less and be happy for the spiritual blessings we receive each day.
I love you all!!!
Love,
Sister Mecham
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