Almost half way done...? Week 33

Well. I reach 9 months this week. Crazy town. I didn't think I would make it past 6 weeks. Miracles do exist.

This week has been another great one. I love this ward. They are so great. We have the stake president and his 2 counselors in our ward, and 2 of the members of the stake primary presidency. Plus a ton of just really really good families. I love them.

A couple weeks ago we showed one of the bishopric members a little missionary video (I'll go where you want me to go, go look it up on lds.org) about how a family does missionary work and the" mo tab" sings in the back. Anyway. We showed it to him and on Tuesday. We had planned to go back and do a follow up, but instead, he took us to his neighbors house to teach them!!! It was perfect! The same thing happened to us on Saturday. We showed the movie, then we went back to do a follow up and she took us to her neighbors house as well. Seriously such blessings. This ward knows how to give referrals. Also on Sunday, the same bishopric member (Bro. Briones) told us he has another referral he wants us to teach next Sunday!!! 

We also got another referral this week from the office elders. The lady's whole family joined the church(in 2011 and her sister last year). She has been taught before, but now they live here in San Pablo. She wants to be baptized already and wants to come to church, we need to help her husband understand better.Plus they need to be married first.

Also we have good news...Marissa wants to be baptized on MARCH 8TH!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!! We are so excited for her. Last night we taught her and we asked her to bear her testimony of the Book of Mormon and it was SO sweet! She just loves how she feels when she reads it and she loves how much happier she feels now. She works for some people in the ward and lives with them but has 2 kids that live with her mom. She said it is too hard to be away from her kids, so she will go back home in April, but she told us she will be baptized before she goes back!! We just love her.

That is pretty much it for now. We had a good week and we even got cute little valentines from some of our little friends that we teach. It was pretty cute, and then we enjoyed a lovely lunch at Chow King at SM.  I did laundry that night. Haha. It may have been one of the most low key, un romantic valentines day ever, but I know I did feel Heavenly Father's love. We got punted a lot, but there were small miracles that reminded me that Heavenly Father loves me and all of the people we are teaching and that made everything better.

Fun facts...

-I heard "Just Give Me a Reason" on the jeepney this week. It was Tagalogized. I loved it. 

-We rode bikes today around the lake by the chapel. It was beautiful. And only 20 pesos. That's like less than 50 cents.

-It's getting super hot again. Boo. Luckily people sell Halo halo for 10 pesos. Halo halo is like shaved ice, evaporated milk, sugar, sweet beans, a piece of leche flan, banana, and buko and jelly ball things. Then you mix it all together and it is super good.

-One of our  ward members, her name is Gigi, she is super sassy and speaks English to us, said that I can stay at their house if I ever come back to the Philippines. They have a pretty nice house too, so I told her I will definitely work on getting back here as soon as possible.

That's all from here!! Ingat po, ha!

Nagmamamhal,

Sister Mecham

P.S. I also forgot to mention...Sister Malig got emergency transferred last week. One of the Tacloban sister's that was here got to go back to Tacloban, so they did a little switching the companions around, so now Sister Japus is Sister Cox's companion.

This is Sister Japos!

Happy Sunday!

Happy Valentines Day from the SM!

Lake pictures!