It's
been another good week, but also heartbreaking at the same time. On
Tuesday morning D texted us about Sister Bendoy's family and it truly
is heartbreaking. During our whole companionship study, I was a teary
mess. But from what I've heard from D, Sister Bendoy is doing great.
It doesn't surprise me because she's such a strong person. She also told
us that Sister Manwaring's sister, who was Sister Bendoy's trainee
before me, started a fundraiser for her and her siblings. That's
amazing, especially when they raised $5,000 within 24 hours! I know she
must be so grateful. We also have about 20ish missionaries who joined us
from Tacloban! There's one in our district that we met this past week,
and supposedly one or two more in our zone. It's also especially
exciting because Sister Maleatoa is in our mission now. She was the
companion that joined Sister Young and I for a week in the MTC because
she had to stay for surgery.
Overall
though, our week was good! Missionary work is continuing to move
forward, and I love it more than ever. Our time as a missionary truly is
precious and I want to take advantage of the limited time we have. But
I feel like it's going by so fast... especially because this past week
was my five months mark! Where has the time gone?! I love the
Philippines and feel so blessed to have been assigned here. It truly is
an amazing place.
Transfers
are next week so this might be our last week with Sister Luke and I
together :( I don't want to be transferred but I've been in the area a
while now and President likes to switch trainers after six weeks... but
we're hoping I'm staying. Especially because the four of us in our
apartment want to be together for Christmas.
Overview of the week:
1.
We're continue to teach our investigator T. He's our last appointment
most nights, literally the highlight of our day. Every time we come,
he's waiting for us and reading the Book of Mormon. He's preparing for
his baptism on Christmas and he truly has been prepared by the Lord to
accept the gospel. Every
time we visit, you can just see the light of Christ in his eyes.
2. We had our first
English class this past weekend! The Elders taught the older kids, and
we took the younger kids... it was a little iffy at first, but it turned
out be a really fun experience and hopefully the kids had fun too.
3. We came home one night
to six cockroaches in our apartment. SIX! I can deal with spiders, etc.
but cockroaches are the nastiest insects. Sister Luke and I literally spent
twenty minutes trying to kill all of them... and it doesn't help they
have ten lives. We trapped one in the sink, and it still wasn't dead
after having the faucet pour on it for five minutes. But, we survived.
Before we moved in, they sprayed something that kills all of them during
the night. I don't know how it works, but by morning, they're all on
their back dead. We're now starting to collect them underneath the
stairs.. we're up to five.
4. I'm now obsessed with
Buko shakes. I don't know how to make them, or what even Buko is, but
you should try making them at home. they're delicious.
I
feel like nothing especially exciting happened this past week to tell
you... but do know that I'm happy and loving the mission. Thank you so
much for your prayers and support and letters each week. I truly
appreciate them. I love you all.
Anyways, I love you all!
xoxo,
Sister Fitzgerald
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