Sarah's Mission to Bacolod Philippines

hello!!! kamusta kamo?? another week wowow!! i guess the biggest news is SISTER BERGMAN GOT TRANSFERRED :(( so my new companion is Sister Behrens and she is from Michigan! I am way excited for this coming transfer though!! She has only been out 6 weeks so i get to follow up train again!! I ended up really loving training last transfer and I'm excited to do it again!! new rules about emailing- we only get an hour. so my letters may be a little shorter now hahaha but ya know the highlights-  -rained pretty much every day this week and basically am pretty used to being soaking wet these days. which id much rather have it rain than be like way hot so we're good!!  -so weird to think at home its thanksgiving break!! its still 90 degrees here. but we're having a thanksgiving dinner this week at our house im puuumped!! -I met a guy wearing a dallas mavs jersey this week!! i just love missionary work!! there is something really special about it and how invol...

kamusta kamo?? life is still cruising over here!! this next week is the last week of my third transfer in the field!! crazy. a week from today is transfer day and we're all hoping nobody from our house gets transferred, but we'll see!! time just flies lemme tell ya the highlights from the week- -we went on exchanges this week! which means you like switch companions for a day. so i was with sister bingham which was wayy fun!!! shes awesome. we had lots of adventures that day though. we walked through this little alley thing to go to someones house one night and i kid you not all these bats went whizzing by our heads. so that was interesting. then sister bingham screamed and turns out there was a giant rat running around too. we got outta that place real quick. always a new adventure - i realized as we were picking bananas straight off the tree and eating them, that the philippines is a pretty cool place!! as far as i know, southlake tx doesnt have any bananas trees j...

hello!!!! isa pa ka semana diri sa Santa Fe!!  THIS WEEK I HIT 5 MONTHS WHICH IS CRAAAAZYYYY. time flies lemme tell ya. what a week!! -it was HALLOWEEN!!! we celebrated big time lemme tell ya. i dressed up as sister bergman and she was me and it was a good time. in the philippines they dont celebrate halloween, but they call it All Saints Day. So they all celebrate their ancestors who have died and they all throw parties at the cemetery. with tons of food and music and its way fun supposedly. we weren't allowed to go hahah our curfew got changed to 6 pm that day.  -but LEMME TELL YA ABOUT THE BIGGEST SPIDER IVE SEEN IN MY WHOLE LIFE. literally larger than my face im not even kidding. but dont worry me and sister bergman cornered it in the bathroom and had our bottles of poison and after lots of screaming, we got it. we just needed something to spice up halloween i guess.  -we found out the office elders play basketball with President Sumagpao every monday mornin...