Sarah's Mission to Bacolod Philippines

Maayong aga sa tanan!! wow hi everyone!! its been a crazy week!! i got to work in Kabankalan Ward 1 (my last area) for a few days this week and then i got to go up to bacolod on thursday to pick up my new companion!!! her name is sister L'Heureux! pronounced "laroo." hahah its been so funny this week to watch all these cute little filipinos try and pronounce her name. shes from pennsylvania and way cute. we're already way good friends over here.  theres been a few fun things that happened this week!!  there was a typhoon on sunday! it was crazy the rain was wayyy strong. in the Philippines the belief is that if you go out in the rain without something to cover your head, you'll get a fever. but me and sister L'Heureux forgot our umbrellas and had an appointment we had to get to, so we just kinda took off running in the pouring rain and im pretty sure the entire town of kabankalan thought we were insane hahaha.  we had a really cool experience th...

hiii everyone!!  wow what a crazy week!! I think probably the most exciting thing is that we found out that they just announced a temple to be built in Bacolod!!! I don't think I will ever forget yesterday. Everyone here just cheered and clapped and cried and it was the most special thing ever. I am SO excited for all the people that I love here. last night this one family threw an entire celebration because of it. it was seriously such a special day. lots of good things happened this week.  -we had zone conference so we went up to binalbagan for a day and listened to talks and messages and found out that sisters can now witness baptisms!! so i witnessed my first baptism the next day hahaha. creating history over here  -im learning how to filipino squat. we're teaching this one family and everytime we go they check my progress to see how im doing. a lot of people don't have chairs so they all just do filipino squats. look it up. im getting good at it  -m...