Hello hello everybody :)
This week was pretty great, a little slow honestly...but
alright! We didn't have quite as much teaching as we usually get, however we
now have 4 investigators progressing to baptism, and for here that is like
Amazing!! I am so so excited :) We have Sister Grace, her daughter, and then
Gelo and Red that will now be getting baptized December 7. So there isn't a ton
of work going on, but we atleast have them and they're all way solid so we're
pretty excited about that :)
Also this week, for some reason me and Sister Surio thought
it was Thanksgiving. haha Needless to say we were VERY disappointed when we
found out it wasn't, but hey we still have it this week! And it's the same day
as follow-up training so I think we'll get some kind of celebration! It's kinda
hard here because Filipinos don't celebrate it, and so all the Americans in our
zone want to do something, but the filipinos don't and so it's kinda causing
problems...so we'll see if we do anything. But we have follow-up training so
I'll get to see Sister Tupa'i and eat some good food so it'll be good :) ALSO,
I am writing my "Thankful Journal" to send you in the mail to put in
the binder so I'm not left out this year!! So be looking for that.
And now today....we had a pretty crazy zone activity
earlier! We went to this spa/resort place where we played on this playground
and it was Way super fun..haha And then we got to stick our feet in this pond
and the fish would come and nibble on your feet! It was so cool...so we sat
there for like an hour with fish eating our feet :)
AND my very very favorite story now for the week....We got
this new investigator named Beth, and actually I don't know if she's new
because we're not going back, but the whole time we were there I just thought
about Syd. Sydney, you would have been peeing your pants!! So she stopped us on
the street and starts talking to us in english, but she sounds just like sid
the sloth!!! And her hair is combed Straight back and then she has this long
dress and socks with flip-flops..haha I was holding in my laughter. So she says
she really wants to go to church but doesn't know where the mormon church is
here, so we got way excited and asked if we could come in and teach her and she
let us...well. She is CRAZY. Like she really is insane... We sat down and
started the lesson and she just talked and talked and talked without a break
for about 30 minutes and I can't say everything she said, because all of it I
was like Dying trying to hold in my laughter!! But I will tell you she used the
words "erotic dances" (while doing movements) and told us how babies
are formed and then how the woman gives birth, all these crazy medical things,
and then there was this little girl that was walking around with one of those
eye masks you sleep with just with her arms straight out bumping into
things...haha It was the craziest thing ever! But probably one of my favorite
lessons of my Whole mission because it was so so hilarious! She also had these statues
that I think were supposed to be Adam and Eve, but it was just a naked man and
naked woman...Man me and Sister Surio were dying afterwards. Just everything
about it was hilarious because of what she was saying, and talking like sid the
sloth Only in english-she refused to speak Tagalog for some reason-and then the
outfit and hair. I just wish Sydney was there to meet her :) (Syd I think I
will nickname you Beth now instead of Gale ;) haha) So it was a pretty good
week, not too eventful, but I'm doing great and just loving it still :) I love
you all so so much and hope you have a great week!!!
Love,
Sister Benesch
PS here's us sittin at the fishy pond :) And I had to send
another of my feet so you can see how bad my tan lines are getting..I think they'll
be there the rest of my life!!! haha
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