Sarah's Mission to Bacolod Philippines

MAAYONG AGA SA INYO TANAN!!!!  What a week!! Time seriously flies so fast!! Its been a good week!! the highlights -went to kfc on tuesday and got food poisoning. yikes -did exchanges with the sister training leaders on wednesday!!! it was way fun and we discovered mug rootbeer which definitely like isnt a thing in this country  -went to zone conf and got the deets on the new communications with families and I FACETIMED THE FAM TODAY!! we're still in shock over here that this is allowed what a wild life we live this has been a really good week though. we went to visit this one woman who we are teaching and found out that her aunt had just passed away!! So we ended up being able to teach her whole extended family and got to testify about where her aunt is right now and help calm their worries about what will happen in the next life. It was so so awesome and I'm so grateful for these cute filipino people and for their faith even when so many hard things happen t...

MAAYONG AGA SA INYO TANAN sorry this will be a short email this week!!! but we just heard that we can skype our families now??? this is wild we're all in shock over here. but im excited!!! i miss those people life is so good over here!! the trio life is definitely different but fun!! sister bise and baczuk are both awesome and im pumped for the next 5 weeks.  we taught this woman named MikMik this week who I just love. we've been teaching her forever. her daughter was in teh hospital for dengue last week for 8 days, and then this week her son got hit by a car and it just seems like they're hit by trial after trial. (luckily he only fractured his arm) but she came to church yesterday and told us that god gives people trials to see how they'll act in the midst of them, and shes using them to come closer to Christ. i just love these people and their faith even when things are so hard.  I LOVE YOU ALL AND HAVE A GOOD WEEK HAPPY LATE VALENTINES DAY AND EARLY ...

MAAYONG HAPON SA INYO TANAN!!!  what a week its been! starting up my 6th transfer in the philippines wowowoww. time is so crazy ahahhh. I GOT PUT IN A TRIO!! so im still in santa fe and sister bise and baczuk and i are now a trio!! i am way excited it'll be fun. they are both entering their 3rd transfer. so im pumped!!!!  sister hopkins is actually heading home to get better from her weird liver problem. so we've been crying all week hahah. president calls us like every day and keeps telling us hes gonna send the assistants over with towels to dry our tears ahaha. but I know God has an incredible plan for her!! He has so much in store and Im excited to see what it is :) and im way pumped for another transfer here in santa fe with Sister Bise and Sister Baczuk!! The highlights from this week-  -on tuesday we decided we wanted to eat lunch at Chowking which is like a fast food chain chinese place!! so we walk in and all the workers run up and hand us these re...

MAAYONG AGA SA INYO TANANNN!! wow what a week!! they just keep getting faster i swear hahhah. but this was a good one!!  the highlights-  -on wednesday we had mission wide deep cleaning day!!! so the entire day all the missionaries in bacolod just deep cleaned our houses. lemme tell ya. we found a secret little door under the stairs when we moved sister schenk's bed, and that thing had not been opened in YEARS. ive never been so disgusted. we found so many boxes of junk that we spent forever sorting through ahahah lets just say if anybody knows an elder slader that served here in 2013, we have his photo album. :) -last monday we went to SM which is the huge mall in Bacolod. it feels like you are walking back into america its INSANE. but we got krispy kreme donuts!! and we all shed some tears. but sis schenk had seen someone make donut grilled cheese once on buzz feed and we decided to try it!! 6/10 reccommend.  hit us up for any of your chef needs.  -...