Hello
family! I just skyped (google chat to be politically correct) you! whoo! So
fun. This week was a blast. Looking back, there was nothing in particular that
was super great but I guess the most significant thing is that we made it
great! So to start, last week after emailing, we had a zone activity at the
beach! It was like the prettiest beach ever! If I ever come back ever again,
that's where I'm headed. And we played volleyball, football, took jumping
pictures, you know, the normal stuff. And that night we had an FHE (family home
evening) at a member's house and the elders brought their investigators and we
just had a blast. They get really into their FHE games... don't worry I'm
writing them all done to play when we get home. My favorite thing about their
games is the penalty if you lose, you have to do a talent! So Sister Brown and
I got 3 strikes each so we did slide (the hand game that kids do) and they
LOVED it! I've never thought to do that as a talent before, but it was perfect.
We were told transfer announcements would be late this week but we were shocked
when Sister Vea got the call Tuesday to transfer and train! It was pretty sad,
especially at this point at my mission because I never know if I'll see these
people ever again! And then we found out me and Sister Brown are staying!!! So
fun. So before Sister Vea left, I got a recording of them singing some Tongan
hymns, so beautiful! Basically my life goal to memorize those. Then we found
out on Thursday Sister Pettijohn is new companions with Sister Clarin! (in our
apartment) I lived with her in Balaquid! (my last area) So fun.
And this will be a
shock to all familiar to missionary work, probably the highlight of my week was
weekly planning! We do it every week so it really shouldn't be too exciting but
because Sister Brown and I stayed together, we sat down and made some pretty
awesome transfer goals. Some fun, some necessary, it's been so great.
1. Find a professional
family that will be a blessing to our branch
2. Find a place to hard
bind our PMG- it's basically a necessity as a missionary in the Philippines
3. English fast-
that's right, she joined. I'm so excited! It's been going pretty well! Not
quite 100% yet, but working on it
4. Exercise daily
5. Find more service opportunities
6. Read from PMG daily
in comp. study- sometimes we run out of time...
7. Find best halo-halo
in Catbalogan
8. Learn and cook more
variety of meals- I want to be a master at pinoy food
9. Clean daily- that
will be easier now that we have the rat problem fixed :)
10. This is my
favorite and been the most fun thus far--> do something fun every day and
take a picture. Basically it's our goal to remember to take pictures of the
little fun things we do like spaghetti Sundays, dying in front of the fans for
planning every night, splurging on Hershey’s candy bars to celebrate our 2nd
transfer together-- that's right, they're expensive and fancy!, having the
other sister's buy us Jollibee (the only fast food here) because we haven't
gone outside all day cause I've been sick. So that explains those pictures this
week...Take joy in the little things. So get ready for a more day-to-day look
into the life of a bunch of goofy sister missionaries :)
Hope you all have a
great week! I love you!
Sister Pike
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