January 6, 2019 Santa Fe

maayong aga!!! what a week!!! first week of transfer #5 in the philippines!! 

this has been a whirlwind of a week!

the highlights-
-went house hunting this week to find a house in santa fe and found a house with a water heater and air conditioning and a filtered water sink and i was in absolute shock and awe until i realized that was kind of an expectation before i got to the Philippines. too bad it was more than double the budget hahaha
-had many hospital trips for my cute comp and her enlarged liver but that also means lots of mcdonalds breakfast soooo perks
-we were sitting on a jeepney the other day which is the main mode of transportation around here and this very large filipino man gets on and he definitely thought there was more room than there was and ended up sitting directly on sister hopkins. did he care/move? nope. i thought it was a whole lot funnier than sister hopkins did hahahah

this week me and sister hopkins were just chillin eating some macdonalds when this cute little kid comes up to us and asks us to buy him food cause he was hungry and we just get in such a habit of saying no to people (cause as missionaries we arent allowed to give money to people for safety reasons) and so we just kinda said no and finished our meal but then the whole time i just couldnt stop thinking about this little kid!! so then we were walking out to leave and we see him just sitting outside by himself! so we went to talk to him and his name is Angelo and he is 10 but turns 11 in the end of january and hes in 3rd grade and his best friends name is Brian. we're pals. and then we asked him if he was hungry and he said yes so we got him a happy meal and we were just crying as he was so so so happy and thankful it was the cutest thing ever. this little boy was walking around all by himself with no shoes in a big city. And we got to make him feel special even just for like 30 minutes. But then I realized that God is so aware of all these people. He knows of every cute hungry kid walking around the Philippines. And although I wish I could give all of them a big meal, it gives me a lot of comfort knowing that someone a lot grander is looking out for them.

lifeis good over here!!! love you all!!
Sister Johnson







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