Hello Family!
So sorry for the hold up this week on my
e-mail; with very short notice we were told that we had interviews with President
Stucki on Monday and that our P-day would be pushed back to Wednesday. So
yeah that's why it's been a couple extra days. It was actually our temple
day earlier so we just have P-day the rest of the day. It was so good to
be in the temple today. But yeah we had interviews on Monday, and it was
really good to talk with President. They always go by SO fast. But
I had a lot of situations to talk to him about investigators and their baptisms
and such, so it was good to get some of them all figured out.
Dad, your question about marriages: yeah,
you can have a bishop or stake president perform a marriage for free, but they
have to get licensed. No one here in my area is certified yet to perform
marriages. I spent all three transfers in Palawan trying to get someone
licensed, and now I'm doing the same thing here in Cavite. Hopefully we
can get that worked out before November because we have an investigator really
progressing towards her goal date in November but has to get married.
Ryan asked if our 19 (now 20) dates were
all solid, and not all of them are. We just are really encouraged to be
extending dates the sooner the better, and they have been encouraging us by the
second lesson. So not all are for sure, but we have a lot progressing so
it's really exciting. Our next baptisms will be Oct. 20, which will for
sure be Mark and Maryanne Adigue who are 14 and 16 years old! Hopefully
Jhennalyn was going to join them for the baptism, but she has been out of town
and didn't really say anything to anyone. We don't really know anything about
it. So yeah we're really praying for her!
Two weeks ago we actually found our new
golden investigator, Analie. She just moved in with her older brother's
family who is actually a less active in our ward. We went to visit that
family, and they weren't home but sister was. We asked if we could
share with her, and she happily let us in. She said just since she moved
in, she saw the Book of Mormon and had read the testimony of Joseph Smith and
was interested. And we've now taught her only twice, but she is so
prepared. Everything she says you can just tell the gospel is just what
she's looking for. She wants direction in her life; she wants to know
which church is the real church and stick with that one because she's switched
from church to church a few times. I can't remember it all, but we just
had a really good lesson with her. She's come to church twice now and even got
her husband to come this last week who she told us has problems with the Word
of Wisdom and gambling. So yeah, I’m SO excited for Analie and her
family!
So yeah those are just some little
examples of things going on here in Novaleta. Sister Richardson is loving
her new area here, and she is such a good missionary. I just love her!
She's really good at Tagalog. And we both still get the 'Hey, Joes'
and all that. That didn't ever go away, Mom, and won't go away being
white with blonde hair here in the Philippines:) haha.
Oh, I have an assignment for all of you
again to tell me what your favorite talk is in conference because as you know I
have to wait a whole WEEK before I get to hear conference. I didn't get
to see the Relief Society broadcast. We did have a funeral service last
night that I was the pianist at. Funerals are SO weird here in the Philippines!
Ah, I can't even describe. I’m pretty sure I told you all about
them when I went to my first one in Carmona. Oh and, Dad, it gets a
little cooler if it's really rainy these days but not really.
Well I think that's about all that I have
for today. I love you all so much!
Thanks for the e-mails and updates! Take care always!:)
Mahal ko kau!
SIster Stromberg
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