New Years, Zone p-days, San Pablo 3 (new area) week 27 in the Philippines

Well I kinda have already spent most my time sending you pictures, so I will just write a little. 

1. New years in the Philippines is CRAZY!!! Literally at 11:30 there were constant fireworks, and no, not the little ones you do in your front yard, but like the giant loud ones in the sky. Then at midnight it was nuts. We had a great time standing out front though and watching all the fire works. Plus our neighbor was lighting some off too. Ha it was fun.

2. The members here are wonderful. They feed us all the time and its always good. I definitely enjoy that. I have also eaten some interesting food too...Plus we have really good sister training leaders here too that we were able to work with this week and they helped us visit some members as well.

3. We had zone pday today and it was heavenly! I definitely want to come back here!

4. We had some really really awesome lessons this week where the spirit was SO strong and the people were so willing to read the Book of Mormon. It was amazing what the spirit can really do to touch people. 

5. We started teaching a man a few weeks ago, but he has been gone a lot. We finally were able to teach him this Thursday and we asked him how is Book of Mormon reading was and he said he had read 115 PAGES!!!!!! It was SO COOL!!! The better part though too was that he understood a lot of it, our next challenge though is to get him to church...But we have a lot of hope in him :)

Any way...my time is about up, but I love you all and hope everything is good:)

love,

Sister Mecham

Guess What I ate?

Dinuguan. 

It's pigs blood. They boil it for a long time then they put the intestines in with it as well as tomatoes and other random spices. It kind of has the texture of dirt, but it actually wasn't too bad. I won't be eating it again though.

Some of our festivities. and yes. more buko. It is SO good!!!! The couple is our stake president and his wife (The Maligon family) they had us over for Christmas day lunch and new years eve. they are SO kind! we are very lucky to have them in our ward

New Years Eve eating buko (young coconut), the brother in our ward ALWAYS works with us and gives us referrals and buko but he totally reminds me of Gilligan