Magandang Umaga ng pamilya ko!!! :) Well this week went even
Faster, which I didn't think was possible! But it was great. I got my FIRST
letter from you guys!! I looked at the date and it took about 3 weeks to get to
me. But in comparison to how Great letters are it isn't bad at all! I'd wait 3
months! ha Sister Kalama saw it on the letter board (they pin them up instead
of giving us PO boxes) and I started crying I was so happy! Thank you so much,
I got the BEST family ever!!
SO I want ALL of you to find the book Our Search for
Happiness and read it!! It's by Elder Ballard, and it has changed my life. It's
incredible! This week I realized that this mission isn't for me at all, but
it's for those waiting for me to teach them. I had a hard moment yesterday and
was talking to my teacher about my feelings of inadequecy, and she gave me some
Really good advice. She challenged me to not only go on my mission, but to
become a missionary. And that's what I'm going to do! I am going to learn
Tagalog, even if that means I can't speak english when I get home, ha because I
want to serve these people. I love them so much already! My teacher is amazing
though, she's 23 and just got married about 2 months ago and told us a couple
days ago that she's pregnant! She's so excited :)
We had an incredible devotional this week also and President
Nielson (area pres.) told a story about a man from Kiribiti (where Christmas
Island is!) and so this was about 40 years ago or so, but there were 0 members
of the church there and this guy was 19 and decided to go to school. So he
moved away from home and went to Fiji where he met some missionaries and was
baptized into the church. He went home and began his own missioanry work and
set up a branch, and now there are 11,000 members! Elder Kiraren, from my
district, is one of the first missionaries from there. It's amazing!!
I also found something SO awesome in my personal study this
week! In my patriarchal blessing there's a line about my desire to do good will
be magnified as I sit at the feet of those who have the right to teach the
church...well in Preach my gospel it says "You have the authority to
preach the gospel" as a missionary. I'm SURROUNDED by people who have that
right, and I'd never thought about that line much before but now I see how
incredible it is and it's happening RIGHT NOW in my life! Amazing
I had a HILARIOUS experience also. Remember how we have that
joke of singing Happy Birthday like "maligadi waaaa" (however it's
spelled..) ha BUT They started singing Happy Birthday in Tagalog in the
cafeteria and it sounded JUST like that!!! Only like an hour earlier was I
telling my companions about us singing that at home and then it happened and we
all bursted out laughing! I have found the source of that song :) Was it
Caitlin who sang it to Matt or something??
Oh I told Elder Liu I'm going to visit him in China :) ha
Even though I won't because I never want to fly again...But I taugh him how to
say "wattup homie?" and it's Hilarious because he says it now to like
the President and everyone! Also, we were doing TALL (the language program on
the computer) and the randomly started feeling my hair and I didn't even notice,
but sister miner burst out laughing and he just looked up and said "What
happened?!" hahaaha He always says that and it's hilarious!
The dogs here are WEIRD like one looked like half german
shepard half weiner dog...hahahaha And they bite!! So I won't be cuddling
animals ;) But don't worry, I will be able to talk and sing in tagalog for you
all!! I'll have to sing happy birthday to myself for you guys :)
Sister Benesch
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