Sarah's Mission to Bacolod Philippines

HELLO!!! first off- HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BIG SISTER MANDI YAAYAYYAY shes 21 watch out!!!! but who's still farther along in school ;))) everyone go celebrate her yayayy she deserves it!!! wow SO much has happened this week holy cow first off, I GOT A NEW COMP!!! it was crazy and really unexpected cause i had been in the area longer but sister behrends transferred this morning and sister hopkins moved in!!! im so so excited shes from utah and the best already so IM PUMPED the highlights- -GOT TO SKYPE THE FAM FOR CHRISTMAS YAYAYAY happy times love those cute people -had a checkers tournament on christmas. can you think of a more festive thing? i cant -totally acted out the nativity with our district on christmas with costumes and all. havent seen a better portrayal of Mary and Joseph than the one given by elder young and elder higginson -hit my 7 month mark in the mission yesterday!!! wild time flies -did exchanges with sister clarke and there were little...

YAYAYAAY CHRISTMAS!!!!! its already christmas eve over here!!!  this is definitely a different christmas!! I am still walking around sweating all day but we went carolling last night and it finally felt like christmas!! It was so fun one of the members brought his guitar and we just went house to house and read a couple versus from Luke 2 about Christ's birth and sang some christmas songs it was so fun!!! then some highlights- -had a pizza making night which actually turned out really good for a toaster oven  -had ZONE CONFERENCE YAYAYAY it was so fun we played christmas games and had some good food and celebrated christmas and they had cute decorations and we all got pumped for christmas this week has been really great!! It has been so cool to see how these people celebrate christmas even with no money for presents or decorations or a big dinner. they really take it upon themselves to spread the true meaning of christmas and talk about Christ and spread love t...

HELLO!!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! what a week!!! you KNOW we had a celebration this week for thanksgiving and went and bought a ton of tiny little mashed potatoes sides from Jollibee and had a feast. lets just say the workers were more than a little confused but thats okay!!! it was so exciting this week was good!! We visited this one cute little girl named Mikayla. We met her dad on the street one day and he said he wanted us to meet his daughter. She is 10 years old and has a disability so she couldnt talk with us, but she understands when we talk!! So we sat down with her and sang some songs with her and she just started smiling and laughing and it was so so sweet to be able to see this little girl so touched by the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love this work and what we get to do every day!! Sorry my email is so short one hour goes by way fast lemme tell ya haha but I love youall and you best know ill be hitting up the one mexican restaurant in this country on friday to cel...

hello!!! I would just first off like to point out that there is EIGHT DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS YAYAYAYY the highlights of this week- -I SAW A TEXAS LICENSE PLATE LIKE WHAT it was WILD -I MET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHERE SOUTHLAKE TEXAS IS. that was insaaaane. we saw this american so we started talking to him and he said hes from arizona but worked in dallas and i was like hey im from dallas!! and turns out he would drive through southlake every day doing deliveries or something and TOTALLY KNOWS WHERE I LIVE SO THATS WILD -i bought a ukulele this morning and its way sick im so excited for it and all the jam sessions to come (don't worry only primary songs and hymns :)) so its been a very exciting week for sister johnson over here representing texas all the way in the philippines. but life is good!! and this time next week it will be CHRISTMAS EVE!!!! weird to think im still sweating every day. but Sister Clarke's mom sent some christmas tree scented things so now our whole ...

wow what a week!!!  i just wanna start out by sending all my love to the Tucker family and everyone else who is struggling from loss of their cute mom. All my prayers are being sent in that direction and i wish i could be there with all my heart. But even from far away, I feel a lot of peace from God's plan for us and I know that He is with us in all of our trials and He can literally carry us through. This is one lesson I have really learned since being here. It is really hard to see in the moment sometimes, but God's plan is divine and was created since the world began. He knows us better than we know ourselves and he will push us to our limits, but He will give us the strength to handle all things that we experience!! and i love you all!! but this week was quite a week over here in the Philippines!! the highlight of the week- -this week me and Sister Behrends were tricked into eating Soup #5. look it up if you wanna know what that is. lets just say it was a...