First off... I MISS my mga
pamangking!!!! (neice and nephews) Ahhh, those were some of the cutest pictures,
and I just can't believe how big they all are! They're all so stinkin cute!
Hannah's picture with her purple shrug, man she looks so much older!! Blows my
mind! We have this one investigator, Bebenya, and she has the CUTEST little
baby I've ever seen. He's always so happy, and he always tries to jump into my
arms which is so hard because I'm not allowed to hold him:( That's just about
the hardest rule for me! I asked how old he was yesterday, and she said 7
months. I thought, hey that's about the age of Cam and Aiden! Yeah, so I was
thinking about those two cuties yesterday! That's one thing I can't wait to do
is just hold babies and play with them and let them sit on my lap and all of
that:)
Anywho... so I did not get transfered:)
YAY! I'm here another transfer with Sister Richardson, and I'm so happy about
that. I hate being with a companion for only one transfer because it's just not
enough. So I feel blessed, and we have a lot of goals. I'm excited to see great
things this transfer in Novaleta! We have two baptisms set for Nov. 24th.
Jennalyn is one of those, and when we told her this last week that that was her
new goal date (because we've given her a couple now), she was SO excited that
she gets to be baptized this November. So yeah I'm so excited for her. We're
just working on getting her some real friends here in the ward to make sure
that she stays active and continues to progress. Then Khaycie is the other one
who has a lot of friends at church and is really involved and really has no
problems and is excited for her baptism.
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We had a really neat experience this last
week with a less active. So I told you that we had major flooding last week.
Well when we were walking home through the flood, there was one part that was
really deep. When we got there, some people that saw us told us that it was too
deep to walk through and invited us inside their house to wait a little bit. So
Brother Wilmar went ahead to check if it was too high, and we waited at their
house, but it only ended up being like a minute. Well they were super nice and
gave us a bunch of plastic bags to put over our bags so our scriptures didn't
get wet, and then we had to take off through the floods. Well after we thought
about how nice they were, and we realized that we needed to go back to them and
teach them. So we went back this last week and taught them and had a really
good lesson, and then at the end Sister Rose told us that her sister-in-law was
a member and just lived right behind them. So we asked her if she could show us
her house, and they did. We met Sister Hazel and her daughter Era who are both
members. They moved here to Novaleta six years ago and still haven't gone to
church. So we actually had a youth temple trip the next day that we invited Era
who is 14, and she went and had a really good time they said. Then they both
came to church on Sunday!:) And we have a FHE scheduled with them later
tonight! It was so great! It was almost just like they moved here and didn't
know anyone and didn't want to just go to church not knowing anyone. But Sister
Hazel said our first lesson how much she misses hymns, and so we sang her
favorite hymn "Hold to the Rod" and taught her about Lehi's dream. Yeah,
it was just so great, and I know none of that was an accident! Heavenly Father
totally just led us to this family that needed to be found and nourished by the
word of God! Now we just need to meet her husband because she said that he's a
member too but is always at work. But I'm super excited about this family! So
yeah great things are happening! You all were right when you said it sounds
like Novaleta is such a great area! SO fruitful!
Oh I almost forgot... you asked about Halloween. Ah I should have taken pictures but here Halloween isn't the big deal; it's All Soul's Day the day after that is. There were a couple trick-o-treaters, but that's all we saw. It was actually the kids of Mark and Maricris, our investigators. But for All Soul's Day it's like a Memorial Day and a fair combined. EVERYONE is at the cemeteries. They have tents set up over the top of the graves so people can just sit around and eat and hang out, and they have all different kinds of venders. Then they have candles everywhere so when it's dark you can still see, and yeah it's crazy! We went and did some finding there for a couple hours, and yeah Filipinos are partiers, that's all I can say. They like to have fun.
But we found this one family that looks like it will have a lot of potential! They were really excited to talk to us, and brother said that he went to church when he was little every once in a while and knows a little about it. We're going to them tomorrow! So yeah I'm really excited about them. Then the others we mostly just found referrals for other missionaries. So yeah that's Halloween here.
Oh and Sister Stucki sent us instructions how to register for an absentee ballet, and we did it so we'll see if our fax worked this next week if we get an e-mail. Sister Stucki wanted to make sure that all the American missionaries voted. So yeah I think that's about all. I love you all so much and love seeing pictures of all of you! Have a great week!:)
Mahal na mahal ko kau,
Sister Stromberg
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