Well another week has come and gone. This week really seemed to fly by. I'm living the dream with the best companion on Earth! Tuesday was one of those days where nothing goes as planned, actually that's how our entire week went. Most of our appointments fell through all morning, and into the afternoon. It's funny how sometimes Heavenly Father makes us have patience, to wait and hold out until the last minute for the miracle to happen. We went to John and Jenifer's balay for our last try of the day. We were happy to find they were all home. The whole family went to church last week. It was the coolest thing to hear John testify to us that he had been so worried about not going to work on Sunday, but he took his family to church anyway, trusting everything would be all right. He then told us with tears in his eyes that on Monday he ended up making double what he normally makes in his sales (He is a defense teacher on the side) Not only that, but the WHOLE family accepted a baptismal date for December 29th. They are so bakod gid. On a side note, they've bought us our own cups, plates and silverware..just for us...Say what?! They're like family to us. We love them! Tapos we ran to our dinner appointment with President and Sister Dizon. She is the best cook ever! We ate Chicken Curry(Sister Schenk's favorite) Seriously so good. She told us she wasn't hungry and she sat down in front of us as we ate. I haven't quite mastered the eat slow thing like Sister Schenk. I think I'm just incapable of slowly eating. If you finish fast, they expect you to take more. As I was eating, Sister Dizon kept heaping rice and sudan onto my plate. I kept saying busog gid ako sister,(I'm so full), but she would just giggle and say kaon pa! ( Eat more!). When I kept insisting that I was full she looked at me and in english said I want to make you fat. I could barely walk home that night. I literally almost started crying hahah She wants to feed us every Tuesday. If I'm being 100% honest, I'm so scared to go back lol. On Wednesday we went to teach Angel. We also went over on Monday to bring her a gift for her 17th birthday. I have never seen someone unwrap a gift so carefully and then save the paper. She was so happy. It's a tough situation with her right now, because Angel knows the church is true and wants to be baptized, but her father won't allow it. He's fine with her going to church, and us coming over, just no baptism. Keep her in your prayers for us. We also went to a 2 yr old's birthday party. Here in the Philippines, birthday's are a big deal, and the members get really sad if we don't show up. We made our 5 minute appearance, and left with our tummies full of spaghetti, kanon, lumpia, pansit and mango cheese ice cream (weird no? it was oddly alright, not the best thing ever, but alright) Later that night we also had a lesson with Barbie who will get baptized on December 22. She's 10, and is the sweetest girl ever. We taught the Plan of Salvation to her, and her parents and It went really well. Thursday, we visited the Berdens again. The baby's foot looks SO much better, I wish I had a before and after picture. Then we went to the Francisco family. The mom and their three daughters are member's and one is on a mission in Japan. Their Father Tiy Ranato used to be a chain smoker and smoked 40 plus cigarettes a day, he is now down to 7. He wants to get baptized and be able to go through the temple when their daughter returns, but he first needs to overcome hisr addiction. Any suggestions on how to help someone stop smoking? He was really sad because we had to reset his baptismal date for January instead of December. That night we got a call from the Old Sagay Sisters saying that they were headed home from Bacolod on a bus and would need help, because Sister Hopkins was so weak. We took a tricycle there and back in the pouring rain. Early Friday morning we went to Old Sagay to go on exchanges so the sisters there could get some work done in their area. Sister Schenk went with Sister Dapena first, while I stayed with Sister Hopkins, who had just gotten out of the hospital, and then after lunch I went out, while Sis. Schenk stayed behind to help Sister Hopkins. Around 4 we went back to our own area and met up with Joy and JunJun. JunJun is our ward mission leader who returned from the Olangapo Philippines Mission and Joy should be getting her call any day so to prepare, she comes out with us all the time. She is the best. It's so nice because she will translate for me when I don't understand, so I don't miss anything. We headed over to Kabalawan, an area far out and super muddy. We taught Jeremy and the Canel Family. On our way out Joy was having a hard time walking because she had injured her foot in a motorcylce accident earlier that day, so I made her get on my back. 10 min into our hike back in the pitch dark night, my crocs got stuck in the mud, and I nearly fell in hahahah we all laughed so hard. The rest of the hike I was practically bare foot because every few steps they would get stuck and fly off again. Hopefully I don't get some kind of foot disease. Saturday, we did the same thing with the Old Sagay sisters. Only this time I went out working the whole time with Sister Dapena from 9 to 4. I was exhausted by the time we came back, mostly because the whole day Sister Dapena would look at me and force me to say and do a lot of things I didn't know how to say or do because I'm still learning the language haha it was good for me though. After that we had to get back to work in our area again. By the end of the day I was ready to collapse from working so hard. Sunday was Stake Conference. Barbie sang in the Choir and John, Jenifer, Syriene and Rogiene all came. President and Sister Sumagpao spoke. President got up and said, "I'm going to speak the language of the spirit, Hiligaynon" (President is in the same boat as all of us learning the language.)Those words had a huge impact for me. It really is so true though. Even though many know English, It's so important to fully learn the language because that's how the spirit is able to touch their hearts. It has been the best over here. I'm already dreading the day when Sister Schenk is no longer my companion. We work so hard and laugh so much! That's all for my week or at least all that I can remember haha. Love you! Halong! These last 2 pictures are from Sister Schenk's email that her mom shared with me. "Well, working with Sis Adams has been seriously the best. We've been working so hard, and each night when we come home, and pray, we both just collapse on the floor. Everyday we laugh so hard we cry. One day this week, we were on our way out, had locked the door, and the gate, and started walking. Sis Adams decided she needed to change her shoes, so she hurried and turned around, threw me her bag, and sprinted back to the house, climbed the gate, and was back to me in just a few seconds." " In other news, we have a pet goat named Steven. He is black with horns. Sister Adams adopted him after continually coming home to find him in front of our house. She is always outside petting him, and giving him Garlic Skyflakes, which are like saltines. But don't worry, he has his own bowl of water too. She came back in the other day and just started sneezing and sneezing, and said, "basi allergic ako sa steven, we might just have to eat him. " Hahaha I died. That night we actually were served goat for dinner, and I couldn't help but laughing so hard."
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Sister Emily Adams
Philippines Bacolod Mission April 18, 2018-October 2019 Mailing Address
Sister Emily Adams
Philippines Bacolod Mission Galo St. between Lacson & Mabini Brgy.22, Bacolod City 6100 Negros Occidental Philippines Archives
January 2020
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