Sorry and thank you to those who continue to want to stay in the know despite my inconsistent emails and lack of pictures! You guys are greatly appreciated.
To give an update: I'm still living here in Tuguegarao. it's summer now and I've heard we've broken 40 degrees Celsius I'm not sure what that converts to in Fahrenheit but if I had to guess it's 1000 degrees! The heat sometimes makes it hard to sleep so I've bought myself an 80 peso hammock ($2). I'm now living the life.
My Tagalog is better than before, but I'm still learning the language.
My trainee is almost done with training.
We have a baptism this week for the Inay family. They're super awesome and I feel lucky to have been able to finish they're teaching They're super ready for baptism. So ready, in fact, they’ve passed the baptism interview twice now. Oops! And the ward loves them.
I'm not sure if I've talked about Sharon but she too was recently baptized. I remember there was one lesson where she told us that she was going to get baptized. As in, she was going to follow all the commandments, go to church 4x's in a row, and basically do whatever she needs to. She really wanted it. She's pretty cool! She has a little baby and often times there’s no tricees by her house. But she doesn't let that stop her from going to church. I hope her husband will follow her example. I'm sure he will one day.
This week we met a lady named Susan. She was “decorning” (?) stocks of corn. So we started to help her. Filipinos get the kernels off so fast. This corn is dried out and stinking hard! But I wanted to get on their level so I started trying harder and around the time my thumbs started to burn I noticed the correct technique. I needed to twist the corn first. I ended up with two giant blisters - but totally worth it. We got into a lesson with her and were invited back. That’s always a plus.
This week was stake conference and we got to hear from a member of the 70: Elder Wakolo. For my spiritual thought this week I'll share what he did. In Genesis 2 we learn about Adam and Eve and how they
were in paradise -> ate the fruit -> were ashamed -> cast out into the wilderness
and in comparison the story of Lehi's dream in 1 Nephi: started in the wilderness -> ate the fruit -> desired his family to partake of it too -> paradise. In order for us to return to paradise we too need to partake of the fruit. But that requires action on our part. It requires us to remain steadfast on the path back to our father in heaven. I know that if we're to do this we too can partake of the sweetest and most desirable fruit above all other fruit.
Love and miss you all!
Sister Crawford
hammock purchase
blister from decorning stocks of corn
Inay Family
Bishop's wife gave sister missionaries this bag
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