It
has been such an eventful and fun week... and although weeks seems to
go by really fast, this one seemed to go by especially fast. Literally,
yesterday I was sitting in this computer writing you all.
Week Recap:
Tuesday-
We had the earthquake! We were in the middle of our personal studies,
and then it started shaking. I look up at Sister Bendoy, and we were
like, "It's an earthquake!" and then she basically runs outside. It
didn't last too long but I felt like I was still moving for the rest of
the morning. It wasn't big enough to do any damage in Bacolod but it
was definitely what everyone talked about at every lesson we had later
that day.
Wednesday-
Mission Tour! Four sisters slept over at our house who live farther
away from the city so Tuesday night we had a sleepover, and it was
especially fun trying to get eight girls showered and ready before 7 in the
morning... but somehow we did it. For mission tour, President and Sister
Nielsen visited. We had breakfast, then a separate sisters meeting with
Sister Nielsen while there was a leadership meeting with President
Nielsen. Then we had a combined meeting for the rest of the morning and
afternoon. For the past month, we've been studying the talk "In the
Strength of the Lord" by Elder Bednar, so President Nielsen expounded on
that. It discusses how the Atonement of Jesus Christ gives us not only
redeeming power, but also enabling power. That we can rely on the
Atonement to not only be cleansed from sin, which is the redeeming
power, but also to strengthened as we try to become better and
more Christlike through the enabling power. It's a really good talk
(read it!) and it gives several examples of stories in the Book of Mormon that help us understand how we can utilize the enabling power in
our lives more effectively.
Friday/Saturday/Sunday-
I'm trying to think if anything especially exciting happened the past
couple of days... but I think it was just mission life as usual. We're
still teaching A and his baptism is planned for this Saturday!
We're also still teaching J, and she is just a doll. She's one of
our first investigators where I can truly see her desire to learn. Just
the other day during our lesson she had a highlighter out, marking her
Book of Mormon. She truly has that desire and it's spiritually
gratifying seeing someone come closer to our Savior. It truly is a
blessing being a missionary and I'm excited I still have over a year to
learn, to grow, and to teach and help others come closer to Christ.
Sunday
Night/Monday Morning- So yesterday, our water stopped working... and
you don't realize how much you use water until it's gone. So, we wash
our dishes from dinner from our bucket of rain water that's been outside
for who knows how long. We texted the landlord... but no response. So
then we wake up this morning, we still have no water so we can't clean,
we can't eat, we can't wash, we can't shower... and we're still sweaty
and smelly from yesterday. So basically we're just sitting around until
8.. when we are supposed to start studies. Then finally, the landlord
texts us and basically tells us they can't fix it today. So, we ended up
taking bucket showers from rain water we filtered through a shirt....
oh the joys of mission life. I'm just hoping we have water soon...
I'm
glad that everything is going well at home! Have fun all of you
together in Phoenix this week! Enjoy the sun and know I'm sweating too,
just half way across the world! Transfers are this week and we should
find out tonight if I'm staying in the area, or if Sister Bendoy is... I
think I'm okay either way so I'll have to let you know next week what
happens!
love you all!
xoxo,
Cami
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