.: Week 66 Mango Graham Cake

Week 66

We got fed by the members a lot this week because transfers are coming up...and I guess that means that everyone feeds you :) Haha I requested Mango Graham Cake...every single member's house we ate at had Mango Graham cake. Had it 3 times this week... :)

Dear Family and Friends,

Grateful to be emailing you this week. It's been a really fun week and again I can't believe it's Monday again. So crazy! We've had a lot of fun as far as visiting members this week. We have had some awesome Family Home Evenings and dinners. Filipino food is just the best. And we finished up exchanges for this transfer. We have transfers this Wednesday so we will see what happens!

But let's get right to the week! First we have had some developments with Gemma. She is doing so good! We have visited her a few times this week and we love her to death. We have been really trying to build her faith and so Ether chapter 12 has been our best friend. That Faith is not a "perfect knowledge of things" or "ganap na kaalaman." And she just has the regular fears of changing religions because her family has been Catholic for their whole lives. So throw some prayers her way :) We love her lots and we are just working that seed of faith in her.

Had exchanges and I went with Sister Nicolas. Best thing ever. We talked about girlie books, our obsession of Harry Potter movies, and she is a dancer too. BEST FRIENDS.

Exchanges with the Sisters :)

Had some awesome FHE and I am always in charge of the game...like never the spiritual thought...haha I don't know what the says about me but I had some awesome game ideas. One of which was charades but with Book of Mormon stories and acting out hymns. It was the best and everyone was SO into it. The other one was playing 2 truths and a lie. Hahaha....Nanay Villanueva totally didn't get it. But she is also another best friend in the ward so we helped her out. I think what I learn through FHE's is that building members' friendship is SO important. A lot about missionary work is developing good relationships with the members.

FHE with the Villanueva's

Dinner at the Villanueva's house

Vallejo Family

We had a service project on Saturday for a ward some missionaries in our district serve in. I was thinking of cleaning the chapel or something like that. Maybe sweeping or washing some windows. Hahaha was totally wrong....they open up this vacant lot next to a member's house that was full of trees and tall grass. They told us to cut everything down. So we had these huge ETAKs and we cut down trees for like 3 hours. Me and the Lubsters were hurting for a little while afterward. Not the best thing ever....but it was fun to do a service project.

Service Project with my District

Service Project :)

Finish off with a spiritual thought...it was one of the member's birthday and our bishop shared a spiritual thought at the FHE from Alma 40:8 and he talked about how time "is measured by men" and that everything is "one day with God." Often times we always focus on time and what is going to happen NEXT, what are we doing tomorrow...and sometimes we like to live in the future. But it just helped me to realize that we should live life "right in the middle." I think my sister in law emailed me that one time. That if we are always focused on time, we tend to miss the important parts of our lives...what's happening in the now :)

Grateful to be serving a mission, and going to do a lot more living in the now this week haha :)

Have a good week!

Love,

Sister Zarbock