Hello Family!!!! AHHH malapit na ang pasko!! I am so excited
for Christmas :)
How are you all doing?? SO this week was pretty crazy. I
have TONS of stories, and sadly I had lots of pictures to go with those stories
but the computer shop we're at we can't connect our cameras so there are none
today :( BUT the stories are still pretty
great! I guess I'll start with myself, I am a walking pharmacy. ha So
pretty much every morning I shower (of course) and then I put on my heat rash
powder, my fungus cream on my feet (now Chels isn't the only fungus foot!
gross..) and NOW I have added lice shampoo and a little comb. Yes, that's
right, I got hit with lice for the first time ever and I think I want to die.
So the first day we figured out why my head was SO itchy all the sisters were
around me with the combs...usually a normal case of lice has about 4-5 little
lice, or atleast under ten. But not me, I'm special when I get little illnesses
or weird things. I think I had for sure more than 30 and there were some BIG
ones that you had to kill on the paper and there was blood and everything! Grabe....
As in you cannot understand. It was terrible!! So I've been dealing with that
this week, and the number has gone down but I still get a few each day, luckily
they're dying off now :) The day we found them was exciting though, because we
came home and washed EVERYTHING, boiled everything, and washed my sheets and
towels with hot water...however that meant I had to do it pot by pot of boiling
water from our little stove because we don't have hot water..ha It was nuts!!
So that was good times. Then besides that I just have vitamins and calcium
supplements I have to take on top of my prescription...It nuts! But it really
is so much fun :)
My next story is about a funeral we went to. A lady in the
ward passed away so we went to the family's house for a necrology, and it was
so so sad!! Her and her kids were members, but her husband wasn't. During the
program he just started crying and crying and I felt so bad! I had to hold in
tears myself...but it just really got me thinking about life and how much time
we waste in our lives with the things that aren't important. Worrying about
jobs, school, things other people do to us...there is SO much more than this
life here and if we actually understood the eternities and God's plan I think
we'd be so much happier. Me and Sister Surio started reading the Bible
Dictionary every companion study to start connecting the Bible stories to Book
of Mormon and it's been a HUGE learning experience to actually know the gospel
and feel so much more that we truly do have a Heavenly Father who loves us. He
has a plan for all of us, and all we have to do is trust Him and then watch
that plan unfold in our lives according to His will..it's amazing!
Then today was pretty fun! We had a zone activity and we
went to this crazy old church that the muslims used way back when the spanish
came in and were driving them out..it's up in the mountains hidden away and
it's beautiful! Then we went to Wawa dam which is....describable. It is
gorgeous!! It's so green, high in the mountain, and just tons of water around
these white rocks you can climb on and then a huge waterfall..I wish so bad i
could send pictures! Even though it doesn't do it justice, it's incredible :)
There are so so many beautiful places here, I'm so lucky to be here!!
Then just for a few random things...There's this old
filipina woman that's probably like 4'7'' and every time we pass her on the
street she laughs and points at me saying "Amerikana!" and I have no
idea why!! haha It's pretty funny though :) and we saw Beth again!!!! Ah she's
HILARIOUS. She invited us to her house this sunday for a party so I'll let you
know how that goes ;) OH ps my next 3 pdays will be different...next week it
will be wednesday for our temple day, the next wednesday for CHRISTMAS AND I
CAN SKYPE YOU!!!! (I'll let you know what time maybe next week), and then the
next Tuesday for transfers....crazy that I'll be done with training Sister
Surio, it's gone crazy fast! SO ya, just so you don't expect emails sunday
night and they don't come :) Oh also, I spoke in sacrament yesterday about
Christlike attributes and realized I have a LOT more to improve before I come
home ;) I'll keep working! ha But I love you all so so much, thank you for all
the support!!! See you SOON!! Over computer atleast :) ha
LOVE,
Sister Benesch
I totally forgot to tell
you about our baptism!! It was a success....for the Philippines :) meaning,
there were only us missionaries, the bishop and ward mission leader there. None
of our speakers showed up, but it still went pretty good!! Gelo and Red were
both SO excited, and the spirit was so strong. They're amazing people :) And
Gelo's wife had her baby last week that we got to meet and he's ADORABLE! Man I
miss holding babies...so so cute :) I'll try to send pictures next week!! love
you all :)
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