March 31, 2019 La Carlota

Maayong aga! Kamusta kamo? Wow done with week one of this transfer!! dasig ba! It has been such an awesome week in La Carlota! 

its gonna be a busy transfer! we have meetings this week in Bacolod and then we start exchanges this week too! Which means we trade companions for a day and get to work with all the sisters in La Carlota zone and Binalbagan zone. im pumped!! 

but first shoutout to my brother andrew!! HIS BIRTHDAYS THIS WEEK WOO EVERYONE GO CELEBRATE HIM HES THE BEST 

the highlights of this week- 
-the house in La Carlota is SO nice. we have a COUCH. I legit can wake up in the morning and sit on a couch. its incredible. im never transferring
-ate lunch at the house of someone we're teaching and there was a huge lizard fight on the table right next to me. like 6 lizards got involved. it was wild 
-Sister Willis and ELder Willis worked with us on Friday. (The senior missionaries) and it was SO funny. they have a car so we drove with them between appointments and stuff, but the problem with that is usually we just tell the tricycle drivers where we want to go and they take us there. So we don't really know how to get there. lets just say sister nanlabi had to roll the windows down and shout for directions a few times, and may or may not have had to get out of the car and run a man down to figure out where we were. lets just say the willis' probably aren't gonna be working with us again for a long time. whoops hahahah

but its been a good week! i love this area and the people in it! we were sitting in church yesterday with 2 super cute little girls who were probably 6 and 7. at one point in the meeting one of them looked over me and asked "mangaranon kamo didto sa america" (Are you rich in america?) and i just said indi man, tsockto lang! which means no not really, we just have enough. and then she leaned over and said "nabatian ko nga kon kisa, ang mangaranon sa america may swimming pools!!" (i heard that sometimes the rich people in america have swimming pools!!) and then talked about what it would be like to have a swimming pool. there are SO many times where I wish I could take these people home with me and let them swim in a swimming pool and let them sleep in a real bed and experience everything i got to experience every day for 19 years! i just love these cute people in this country and never want to leave this cute place. 

i love you all!! 




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