Sarah's Mission to Bacolod Philippines

Maayong aga!!   Wow today starts my last week in the field as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! I can't even believe how fast the time has gone. I still feel like I just got here. But I am just so thankful. I had the opportunity to bear my testimony at zone conference this week and share some of the things that I've learned on my mission. While reflecting, I was able to realize how much I have changed and how much closer I am to my Savior right now. I think serving a mission was the absolute best decision I could have ever made in my whole life.   and I will still be able to email next week! I will be up in the mission office and will have time as well to email. So you'll hear from me one more time :) But this week was really great. me and sister l'heureux are just having so much fun and im so grateful she is my last companion!! We decided to go a little big and get some fine dining for lunch this week. except then we checke...

Maayong agaaa!! Kamusta kamo?  wow what a week!! its been a good one. SO fast. time just keeps ticking. ive been really good at pretending like i have all the time in the world left, but the past couple days its been sinking in that i only have a little bit more time with these special people! i just love them and seriously think i could be a missionary forever and never get tired of it. theres nowhere else id rather be. i just wanna live up these last couple weeks and use every second!!   the highlight was definitely that Nay Gemma and Gina got baptized on saturday!! oh it was just so special. they both just got up and testified about the truthfulness of the messages we've been sharing to them and cried and cried as they made sacred covenants with our Heavenly Father. just the happiest day ever. we're so excited for them. and their entire family came to church on sunday! the rest of them are preparing for baptism in december.  i love being a missionary!...

maayong agaaaa kamusta na kamo!!! wow what a week of MIRACLES!!! we are just seriously feeling so blessed over here. im just so happy here yayayyy this email might be a long one just cause we had so many cool experiences this week but they're all worth the read :))  but i wanna tell yall about my friend Rojelio!!! Hes 82 years old and basically the coolest man ever. we met him a few weeks ago on the street. he asked us if we believe in the book of mormon and we said we do! we believe in the new testament and old testament and we have one more testament about Jesus Christ! And he told us that he found a book of mormon on a tricycle 30 years ago and has been reading it ever since!! he has never met the missionaries, never been to church, but just found this book and has read it multiple times and researched it historically and knows that it is a true record of ancient people in America. we were just kinda shocked hahaha cause like talk about golden. but he has now been to churc...

hey pals!! wow what a week!!  first off, this morning we went to the beach!!! we found out theres a beach in our area and woke up and went and took some picnic blankets and ate breakfast on the beach. i love living on an island but its been a whirwind of a week with a lot more crazy typhoons and your 2 fav girlys dripping wet and shivering in macdonalds a few nights. ended up climbing a tree to get out of a flood hahaha. and then we had 4 extra sisters come stay in our house with us a few nights while they found a new house so we ended up with 8 people here a couple nights. it was way fun but we all ran out of food tryna feed them all so we've been starvin the past few days hahaha. its been an exciting week. but HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! yayayy wooo   but what a week of miracles!! seriously we feel SO blessed over here. last monday we went to go visit the Calata family and follow up with them about how church was!! And the father of their cute little family said, "sist...