September 26, 2023 WEEK 7 Manila Philippines! 🌴

 It has probably been one of the most crazy weeks of my life but so good! 

The last few days of being in the Provo MTC have been super fun. We had our last classes on wednesday and then the rest of the days until saturday when we left have had nothing. We made this game called "secret hitler" and played that for pretty much the rest of the time we were there. We had to say goodbye to two of the elders leaving for Canada and Hawaii also so that was sad. 

The rest of us woke up Saturday morning, packed, and jumped on all sorts of trains and buses to get to the airport. Our first flight was 1 1/2 hours to LA, our second flight was 13 hours to korea, it was so long I just kept on eating Nyquil pills every time I woke up so I tried to sleep the whole time and pretty much everyone on that flight just spoke korean. We completely skipped over Sunday and then got on our last flight at about 5 in the morning. The last flight was so cool because we all got to pick our own seats because the plane was almost empty. Me and my whole district all got window seats in the back of the plane with the rows to ourselves it was so fun. That flight also flew over most of our missions so I got to see some of Baguio from above!

Once we got to the Philippines we jumped into a van and prayed that the guys who were driving them were actually sent from the MTC. The driving in Manilla was CRAZY. I thought we were going to scrape the side of a jeepney or run someone off the road through all of the swerving and lack of traffic laws but we made it!

We got to the MTC at about 11 AM on Monday and had no time to unpack or anything. It was just straight to class. We all felt super gross because none of us had showered since Saturday and we were all really tired also. 

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Filipinos are sooo nice. I love them! Everyone wants to talk to us and welcome us to the Philippines
- With just $30 I got a new messenger bag, a scripture case, a coin pouch, new shoes, socks, and a shirt! Everything here is really cheap
- The heat, humidity, and rain. I absolutely love it, it rains here everyday really hard
- The food: Fish heads, chicken feet, (actually just every part of the chicken mixed together- the gizzard, liver, feet, everything), quail eggs, and lots and lots of rice in every form imaginable
- Combining with the other district and the elders mixing up companionships within the districts
- A Korean man asking us where we are from and when we said Idaho and Utah he said "Oh the Biden States" haha
- Filipino Choir

PICS:
- chicken feet!
- spraying permethrin (monthly bug repellant) on my clothes
- Secret Hitler
- 3 of the elders had a birthday this week and last week
- Sand volleyball for the last time
- Eating lunch with the teachers 

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP:
Sorry that this email has been so long but I have seen how the Lord blesses us so much when we have faith in Him. All of us were really completely in the Lord's hands this week as we traveled blindly as a district and he helped us along the way and we had no problem getting here to Manila. Love you all!










Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

September 19, 2023 WEEK 6 Keyboard Ka Ba? ⌨️ 💻

Image
  Keyboard ka ba? Kasi type kita... I love Tagalog pick up lines! this one means are you a keyboard because you're my type haha It has been such a great week but soo weird because we have been doing a few things for the last time! I fly out Saturday night for the Philippines and will arrive that monday. We actually skip completely over sunday because of the time zone differences. I have never been so scared and excited at the same time in my life. I have learned so much this week. I loved learning about repentance and faith, God is willing to help us repent and give us that grace if we are willing to let Him! HIGHLIGHTS - Singing "Hindi Ko Alam" to everything (It means I don't know) - We all signed a paper promising to not speak english until wednesday and it lasted maybe one day (our teacher played inspirational music while we signed it) - I finally got the first vision memorized in Tagalog at the start of the week! - Brother Macarilay has a Tagalog speaking Fi...
Read more

Homecoming- Touring the Philippines with Mom and Dad March 22-March 27

Image
 Ashlyn was released from her mission on March 22, 2025 at the Baguio Mission Home.  Because President and Sister Wilson couldn't be there, The Caldwells came to meet us and help with her release.  This was a tender mercy because the Caldwells had treated Ashlyn like a daughter throughout her mission and watched over her from the day they found her in the Provo MTC until the day she left.  Originally, President Watt was scheduled to release Ashlyn over a phone video conference, but ended up having other obligations and he authorized her dad to release her, which was also a very special and tender moment.  A lot of tears of joy were shed when we saw Ashlyn again after 19.5 months and after she had to sadly take off her tags and say goodbye to this chapter of her life. After her release, we got to take Ashlyn to the Awesome Hotel, which she had seen before in her mission area and vowed that she would stay at some day.  I will never forget how excited she wa...
Read more

December 23, 2024 WEEK 72 Naragsak a Paskua 🎅

Image
HIGHLIGHTS - Christmas con!! We took a 4 bus ride down to LA Union and back so all together we traveled 8 hours that day. My favorite part of the travel was playing with one of the elders electric massager because it makes your nerves in your hand go crazy if you put it on your arm. We were all laughing so hard  - I got HUGGED by a 20 year old drunk guy - I also got super sick this week but luckily after a 5 hour nap and a lot of prayers I was totally fine to go work - The Caldewalls my favorite senior couple took us to some of our poorest friends and we shared a message and gave them bags of rice and veggies it was an amazing experience and we felt the spirit so strong - The branch Christmas party was fun it was mostly games and karaoke  - We just got news that our mission will now get phones for everyone so companionships don't have to share!! We are super excited about it - I started my French fries on fire in the microwave and smoked out the apartment woops  CHRISTMAS...
Read more