hahah so this week hardly any work haha. Monday is Monday we shopped and then did laundry. Tuesday missionary Christmas party at Cauyan. It was super fun we played a game where we were in lines of 5 and the last person has a balloon on their feet and the first person is out to pop the other balloons, and we had another game called Bahay (house) Baboy (pig) and Baguio (storm) where there is two people that are a house and 1 person is the pig and when the person says bahay we have to find a new pig and whoever is last loses and whenever they say Baboy the person that is the pig has to find a new house quickly and Baguio we all switch and change. It was super crazy. There was food cooked by Brother Pete (a white guy that goes around the whole mission selling and buying sovereigns and nick knacks, he is a member and cooks the best American food) Then we had a devotional about all the different characters in the Nativity and about what is fact and what others were made up and also about how they must have felt Joseph, Mary, Elisabeth, and John the Baptist and his Father. Harod, the Kings (nope we don't know if there was only 3) the shepherds, and the Nephites in the Americas. What I thought was cool is that they think the star is a convergence of 2 planets and 1 star. It reminded me of how amazing it is when the moon is super bright that there are shadows and it is a clear sky and it is just peaceful and how thoughtful Mary was all the time and how devoted John the Baptist father was. He was slain on the steps of the temple because he didn't give out the location of Jesus. It was amazing. I loved it. Then the next day EVERYONE AT THE CHRISTMAS PARTY GOT LBM (diarrhea) hahah we all stayed home and just ate anti-lbm pills and bread. hahahah ya and then Thursday we had a Christmas party with all the branches in our district and then Friday was weekly planning and then work but no fellow shippers so we went and visited all the Less actives that we have.
Saturday work again. We visited a huge Family that is all less active they live in this huge compound kind of thing and they are all related. So we had 2 lessons. The reason they went less active is they didn't go on missions and got married. We told them that was ridiculous and that they need the church more than ever now to bless their families. A lot of people don't go on missions and are still active. Then we visited 3 sisters the oldest loves the lessons, the middle loved the friends and the youngest is shy. They don't go to church because their family got offended; we told them that they can enjoy the things in church still. They just need that faith and boost to go in spite of their parents choice not to come to church. another less active family the girl is 19 and she has an online business but because of that she doesn't go to church, and then the oldest is handsome young man he did work with the missionaries before and was really active, but now he is in college and doesn't have time for that. Their dad is this sweet x-marine that learned to cook in his service. (He has a classic Marine tattoo.) There are a lot of Marines and sea men here.
We also have an investigator that is totally prepared because they read the pamphlets and they ask questions and they promised to go to church (they didn't go but we are hoping it was out of their control, because they were so looking forward to it.) they are a cute couple. They live in the middle of a corn field, and he works all day in the corn and rice fields, and when he comes home he plays with his 2 kids and nephews and nieces and giggles with his wife. They are just super cute! I love them.
Oh also I ATE BALUTE! AT THE DISTRICT CHRISTMAS PARTY ON THURSDAY. It was epic! We were waiting for the bus and there was a vender there. It tasted like egg. There was just some cartilage but I pulled that out and continued and then there was the fur but it was wet so it didn't bother me that much. I have pictures.
:) I am excited for Christmas; we have our branch Christmas party on Christmas and so many lunch and dinner appointments! IT is cool to be a missionary and to represent Christ, when it is his day, and my lifetime. We have such great knowledge about Christ that is amazing to share with others. No one else knows as much about Christ than we do. We don't just get that knowledge from books, or just from people. It’s from OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. We have the Knowledge about how to talk to our Heavenly Father to get that knowledge and we know that our Heavenly Father is the one to give us the gift of Christ.
Mahal ko Kayo Lahat (I love you all.) Love sister Perkins
That is a baby Chick from the egg with all its fur. ignore the hair it was a windy night.
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