I only wrote in my journal Wednesday and Friday- I should write about the less eventful days too but today I'll just be writing in depth about those two days. Everyone should keep a journal they're important.
Monday: I went Christmas shopping for myself (kind of not really) I found these silky pants for 70 pesos I now sleep in, I got some nail polish, and a hair straightener for 225 pesos. I'm still so happy for the most part about these purchases. I went to straighten my hair and it didn't do the job as well as I'd hoped but I bought a straightener not a defrizzner hahaha
Wednesday: Interviews with my mission president those went well except I failed at guessing the answer to his questions. He wanted to know about my companions problem which is that she hasn't had communication with her family for 2 months and I told him her problem was headaches. My companion and I laughed about that one for a while afterwards.
Thursday: We taught Mike and his wife - I'm not sure if I've been updating you on their progress but they're an awesome couple who have their baptism date set for December 29. Anyways their old lady neighbor sat in our lesson and as we prayed she said, "yes lord. Thank you lord. Hallelujah" I'm not sure if that's irreverent but I want to incorporate it in our prayers in America.
Friday: We were taught how to make Grey Ham cake by Sister Maymen. A member of our ward who has taken us in as her daughters (literally) she gave us clothes that her daughters didn't want anymore and anyways grey ham is how they say graham which is so funny when I discovered that. We teach her niece who is also 20 and super smart named JV. I really hope she'll get baptized but she won't read the book of mormon until she's finished the bible. Then we were contacting and Sister Cabaraban saw a foreigner (me/ people not from the Philippines) and she told me to contact him in English. I then went up to him and began my spiel and he says, "my life is too short for that". That isn't how contacts usually go here so it made me really grateful for the kindness of Filipinos and if anyone has insights as to what he was talking about please let me know. Then that night we were walking to our friday dinner appointment (in the dark) then BOOM a firework goes off and a white horse runs right in front of us. Hahaha we were pretty rattled and then each time we began to walk the horse would ran back across the path so we broke out into a run while fireworks were going off it was pretty funny. Come to find out it was the member lighting off fireworks he bought 9000 pesos worth of fireworks for Christmas. Then he taught me to eat the eyes of a fish....it's not as good as it sounds.
In my personal Book of Mormon reading I've gotten to 3 Nephi and just in time for Christmas which is pretty awesome. But I'm going to be talking about impressions I recieved while reading Helaman 13:7 - I wrote: Does repentance bring glad tidings to your soul? If not we should try making it so. Jesus Christ did not suffer for us not to use the atonement. I know that as we use the atonement more in our lives we'll receive greater conversion to the gospel and will feel more spiritually prepared for the second coming. Ask yourself that question- are you ready for the second coming of Christ and if not why not? Get ready! Do not procrastinate the day of your repentance
Love and miss you all Sister Crawford
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