Week 56: NANAY PERALTA

Hello everyone!! Another week. haha.

So we saw a lot of good progress this week! We saw some efforts from the endless finding we did and have found three families to teach! One of them is the Enfectada family and they're super receptive and kind, they sell chicken joy in a not really busy place so we can go there to teach them whenever and they give us free fried chicken. Another is this part-member family, the Senarosa family, but only the dad is the member. We began teaching them again, they were taught by the missionaries a while ago but never progressed. One of the teenage daughters though says that she believes what we teach because she prayed about it and received an answer to her prayer! Hopefully they'll progress too. Last family is friends with this old nanay in our ward, nanay Semblante. We met them earlier this week and then one of the kids, Reygie, came to church with her on Sunday! The dad is really nice so hopefully we'll be able to return to them too. 

The bright side of this week has been Nanay Peralta. I love her so much. I call her mom haha. She lets us come over whenever and eat and she just loves the missionaries. 

In other good news in Tangub (my previous area) Anthony was baptized! And Jenelyn and Goselle are still set for September. And in great news in Magsungay, not sure if you remember them, but Cherry Mae, Mark and Kenjie were finally baptized! We taught them for such a long time and they finally made the commitment. They have made SOOO many changes in their lives and are so amazing. I'm so happy for all of them and their change :) 

Anyways thank you all for the love and support, I love you all! 

Sister Pope

1) This is what most of our area looks like.. we got really lost here haha

2) FHE with the Tangub sisters :) 

3) It was James (the one wearing the yellow) birthday on Friday so I made a kilo of spaghetti!! That's a lot fyi

4) Nanay Peralta and her husband... I love them SO MUCH!! 

Week 55: FOREVER FINDING

Hey everyone!! This was the longest week of my life. Haha. So basically sister Faiva and I were white washed in Sum-ag (I was only there for two weeks before the transfer and did NOT learn the area) and when we got the area book: three sheets in the new and others section and two sheets in the former investigators section!!! So we're starting from scratch. We spent seven hours a day this week just finding. Aaand we pretty much found nothing! But it's okay, we're just keeping up the work and we'll know more with the follow up visits this next week.

Another problem is the members never worked with the missionaries so basically we have no clue where they've been visiting or where their investigators were. It's an adventure! We're teaching a lot of cool people right now though and hopefully we'll see some progression in them! 

Honestly really nothing happened this week except us walking for a long time and talking to the most random people ever but it was a rewarding week as usual because we were doing missionary work :) 

Thanks everyone for the love!! 

Sister Pope

1) Sister Faiva and I!

2) The river that splits our area

Week 54: TRANSFERS!!!

This has been crazy!! I got transferred!! I've been in Tangub for only one transfer but I've now been transferred to Sum-ag, which is the ward we've taken over. I had to leave Anthony, Jenelyn and Gosel and it's SOOO sad but I'm so excited to work here in Sum-ag, it's an amazing area! 

My new companions is Sister Faiva and she's an islander and SUPER nice, she's been in the mission for four transfers now and we're really excited to work together! Also I'll just be living in the same house as the Tangub sisters so I'll see Sister Fawcett every day anyways :) 

I'm really short on time but I'm excited to work 100% now in Sum-ag!!! Next week pictures.. I don't know how this computer works hahaha.

Sister Pope

Week 53: WEDDING PAPERS

I really can't believe I though last week was crazy. This week literally was SO INSANE trying to get around two areas!!! BUT it's been great! Lots of miracles this week.

So Sum-ag is a GOLDEN area. The sisters there have seven progressing investigators with baptismal dates! It's really amazing. And they were all at church on Sunday! They really have embraced the gospel and are really just waiting for us to teach the lessons to them. One of the investigators is Sabrina and she has been going to church continuously for a year now, the only problem is she needs to get married to her husband. They though for the longest time that they needed certain requirements for their marriage that they wouldn't be able to get and nobody ever really looked into it. BUT! I had a wedding in my first area and know alllll about that stuff! So in reality, they already have half the requirements and they're getting the rest of them this week. They're getting married on the 26th :) we're so excited for them! 

In Tangub, our investigators are doing well. Anthony's doing awesome! He's really trying to quit smoking and quit coffee and alcohol cold turkey. He was actually pretty disappointed when we told him we had to move his baptismal date but now he's really doing his best to qualify himself. He's awesome! And then Jenelyn and Gosel!!!! They both went to church on Sunday! Gosel's work schedule has changed!!! They can get married!! We're soooo excited for them :) Hopefully by the end of September everything will be put together for them. 

The biggest miracle this week was Maryjane and Maryjoy. We visited them last week and actually it turns out their baptismal date was for the 6th, so they entered the waters of baptism on Sunday! They are SO prepared. Apparently they've been going to church for two months now, they've wanted to be baptized for awhile but they said the sisters just stopped going to them, even though they were still reading the book of mormon and going to church. They're so golden! And then their father, Romero, has SUCH a desire to be baptized but he has a pretty bad past, he's working on the road to repentance so he can too one day make a covenant with God. He's stopped all his vices and doesn't talk to any of his old gang members but we're going to need permission from the First Presidency for him to be baptized :/ We'll work on it! 

Anyways we're trying to be positive all the time and not focus on the stress of taking on two areas because, in reality, this has been a huge blessing for us. The people here are so prepared and you can really see it's coming from their own desire to come closer to God. So blessed! 

Thank you all for the love :) 

Sister Pope

1) Maryjane and Maryrose with their father, Tatay Romero. They're all so amazing!

2) This is from last week when the Elders broke down our door... classic