It's
hard to know what to say because of what's happened this week with
Grandma and Grandpa. But I'm so comforted to know that you were able to
be there, by her side as she passed. President Lopez called me Friday
morning and told me and explained how she was talking about her
missionaries up until she passed. My heart is so full of love right
now. It's hard being away and not being able to offer that support that I
know our family needs right now, but I know that Heavenly Father is by
your side, strengthening and comforting you. I'm sending all my love to
both you, our family, and especially Grandpa. I'm write him a letter
tonight and send in the mail as soon as I can. Please express to him how
much I love him, and how grateful I am to have him as my grandpa, and
for setting that example for me. I love you all, send my love to our
whole family as well.
Other
than that, our week has been pretty good. Yes, Sister Van Slooten is
training, so we have a new sister in our apartment! Six girls from her
batch are training after just completing their own training, so now it's
stressing me out because that could easily be me in six weeks... and
right now, I'm no where near being ready to train. But I can definitely
see how I've progressed in the past six weeks. It's still hard for me to
understand them, and half the time they might not understand me either,
but I'm trying, and I know that eventually it will come.
On
Tuesday I got a package from Maddy and is seriously made my whole week.
I might have cried. Seriously, I love our family so much. Especially
with Grandma passing this week as well, it makes me realize how lucky I
am and how grateful I am to have been given such an amazing family.
Your examples, faith, love, and support are the only reason I'm the
person I am now. In the little book she made me, there's a picture of us
as family, and she wrote, "Relax, we have eternity." The Plan of
Salvation is real, and I'm so grateful that we do have eternity together
as a family. I might be gone for the next year, but that's nothing
compared to that.
Sister
Bendoy and I continue to have so much fun together. She actually might
be the funniest person I know. The past couple weeks, we sometimes watch
The District at night, and one night we decided to make our own video.
So the past three nights, we "document" our day, the same way they do.
We talk about our day, what we did, how our lessons went... they're so
awkward, yet so funny to watch.
This
past week our teachings have been good, and we had some investigators
come to church which is always exciting. I gave a talk yesterday in
sacrament meeting, and being the person I am, I stressed out and gave
mostly all of it in English... so I don't think they understood any of it.
But I learned my lesson for next time, give it in Ilonggo, even if it's
only two minutes long. We also got fed a lot this week, which never
happens. On Friday, four out of five lessons, they fed us. Which is
usually exciting, if I wasn't already so full. Also on birthdays, they
always have spaghetti and cake... we had spaghetti three times this
week. So much for losing weight in the Philippines...
I love you all. I'm praying for you always, especially Grandpa right now. Send everyone my love.
xoxo,
Sister Fitz
p.s. HOW IS MADDY ALREADY COMING HOME THIS WEDNESDAY?! craziness.
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