Transfers
are this week. The new batch from the MTC comes in this week. Where has
the time gone?! Before I know it, I'll be Maddy with less than two
weeks to go! Seriously, when I think of Maddy coming home, it blows my
mind, I can't believe how fast her mission has gone by and the same
thing is gonna happen to me now.
We've
had another good week here in Bacolod. It continues to be sunny, and
then downpour, and then be sunny again, pretty much the weather is
bipolar, but we use our umbrellas both when it's raining and shining, so
it doesn't really matter. Yesterday, we were stranded at the church for
two extra hours because it was downpouring and couldn't go outside
without getting completely soaked, even with our umbrellas. We were
fasting as well, and I could seriously feel myself getting weaker and
weaker because I was so thirsty. But then we came home and feasted.
Later that night, we went to go visit these two families, but then we
came across this foot-deep puddle across the whole road with no way
around it... so we turned around... that's how flooded it was. Usually
there's rocks you can tiptoe across, but it was too deep for even that.
Also
this week, at one of our recent converts house, two sisters from the YSA came with us and climbed the palm tree to get us coconuts! It was
so funny, but they ended up getting five down, so we chopped them open
and had coconut juice. It was delicious. Also, we visited Brother
J, who is actually a returned missionary, but less active. But
he's so nice, and his family makes Puto and sells them at the market.
You bake them in banana leaves and they're delicious. We call them rice
cupcakes and he always gives us thirty every time we visit.
We
haven't had exchanges yet, but this past week they called two new sister training leader's specifically for our zone, so once a transfer, we'll have
transfers with them which should be fun, but also slightly terrifying
because I still feel brand new to the whole mission thing. But I'm still
surviving :)
Also,
please let Hannah know I got her two dear elder letters this past week!
It was so fun to read them and that I'll try to write her back next
week!
I
still love the mission. On Saturday, the elders had a baptism and we
were able to attend. It was my first experience of a baptism here in the
mission, and it made me so excited at what's ahead regarding my
personal missionary work. I love serving, I love teaching, I love the
Philippines. Even though I miss you all, I know this is where I'm
supposed to be.
xoxox,
Sister Fitzgerald
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