I am great! We have been hard at work all week and were able to teach a lot
of people. This week was really good and we had a few new investigators come to
church. A family from San Crispin, a barangay (neighborhoodish) in our area,
that we have been teaching for the past few weeks finally came AND I was one of
the speakers. So it turned out to be a pretty great day. It helps that I finally
feel like I am starting to learn the language well enough to communicate with
people. Many times people will still just blankly stare at me when I say
something to them but Sister Rombaoa told me that I am saying things correctly
it's just that they are shocked that "someone like me" (ha ha) is speaking
Tagalog. I LOVE Sister Rombaoa! she leaves in four weeks and I am sad to be
"killing" another companion!
So something I have been thinking about a lot lately- being happy. So many
of the people we teach will say "I'm not happy because of ________, or if I just
had _________ I would be happier. It has been really hard for me because a lot
of the issues are because many of the people are so poor and I don't know how to
help them.I wish I could just tell them that money won't make them happy,
because I KNOW that money and material objects are not the source of true
happiness, but it's not that simple. During my talk I was just overwhelmed with
love as I looked at my ward. I know that true happiness and true joy comes from
focusing on Jesus Christ, Others- Serving and loving them and
then You- focusing on making yourself a better person, more like Christ.
This was from sister rombaoas talk yesterday :) I also know that when we are
grateful for our blessings we are not only happier but God blesses us with
more.
I am so GRATEFUL to be a missionary! I love you all!!!!
MAHAL KO KAYO LAHAT!!!!
sister Morton
The photos- I meant to send them last
week, we were able to attend transfer day so I got to see my "boys" aka the
elders that were in my zone in the MTC! and that big thing is a carabao they are
huge!
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