This
week was wonderful! Didn't work as much
as we would've liked because I took a few rest days. I've been doing pretty good but occasionally
I need to crash especially since it's hot season and we walk a lot and my body
just wears out faster than the average human!
Which I'm very used to and it's wonderful because Sister Brown is so
incredibly patient and understanding and we just have a great time all the time! When I'm asleep she just studies and listens
to my general conference talks which she is in love with! Definitely getting us pumped for general
conference this week. This week, she
discovered our roof because she got tired of sitting in our house and we went
up there at night just to talk and the weather was so beautiful! like perfect!
not hot at all with the most beautiful breeze so we decided to move
our mattresses up there (we always just sleep on the floor anyway)
and slept and we even woke up cold the next morning! We loved it so much that we've done it the
past 3 nights in a row. Luckily, it hasn't
rained on us and we are definitely counting our blessings. My favorite is in the morning, the wall
blocks the sun so we don't wake up too early and if you look over the wall,
it's a perfect view of the mountains. Literally
feels like we're camping and I just feel 100x better about getting out of bed
in the morning!
What I love about
Sister Brown is that we are such good friends and can talk about everything and
anything but can also work hard to do our best as missionaries. Even though we didn't teach very many
lessons, each had such a special spirit that was so fulfilling! And we've been finding a lot because we have
like 1 investigator and I was really bad at finding at the beginning of my
mission, but now I love it because you meet so many weird/funny people. Even when we get rejected, I just walk away
laughing because it was hilarious. I'm
sure we'll find some great investigators soon.
One huge success was that our investigator (who is the wife of one of
the counselors in the branch presidency) finally came to church!! They live 45 minutes away and they have a
motorcycle so it should be pretty easy but we've had to work for a few weeks,
but she came! And I love our relief
society, there are actually quite a few relief society sisters and they are all
very welcoming. It's so exciting when
someone new comes to church and you can tell they feel so welcome.
Also, we got to see
Women's conference which was so exciting!
In the past we haven't been able to.
We invited some less actives who said they would come but when we showed
up at the start, there were literally just 4 of us sister missionaries but a
few more showed up late at the end. But
it was so cool to be able to see that very first women's conference, Sister
Brown was like crying the whole time, it was hilarious but such a special
spirit that gives you the recharge you didn't even recognize you needed! Definitely looking forward to all General
Conference which will probably just be in English which I feel bad for those
that can't really understand but they feel the spirit and the love of the
leaders of the church for us which is better than nothing! It's so sad thinking this is my 3rd and last
general conference here, time flies so fast!
I love you all and think and pray for you often.
love, Sister
Pike
p.s. cool story, while
finding, we met the cutest old lady who doesn't understand a word of English or
waray-waray so I pulled out my Tagalog I've been studying and it was so great! My companion (who had the biggest nosebleed
of her life-> a Filipino phrase which means their brain was working so hard
that it bled and comes out the nose) just stared in awe like, since when did
you know Tagalog! It's fun. But now I need to focus on learning
waray-waray more in depth so I won't be able to study as much.
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