February 19, 2024 WEEK 28 CTR: Cook The Rice 🍚

 Whats more important than choosing the right in the philippines? Siyempre cooking the rice haha. I have been absolutely amazed lately at the sheer amount of things Filipinos can cook and make with rice from all kinds of deserts to eating it for breakfast lunch and dinner. 


We were making decorations for a wedding but ran out of glue and in all seriousness one of the sisters said "lets just make some rice glue"

HIGHLIGHTS
- Parades! There has been so many with Panagbenga going on but the one I got to see was the big Chinease New Year one with big dragons and floats
- Watched a little girls dog get ran over right in front of her eyes it was the worst thing I think Ive ever witnessed
- We were talking to a cop and towards the end he confessed that he was making sure we werent spies from China (there are some contentions right now with China)
- Valentines day was cute, sooo many flowers and we did a whiteboard activity in the streets asking how people feel the Saviors love it was sweet ♡
- We helped the sisters in our district plan and decorate a wedding so they could be baptised
- I got measured for the traditional dress the member is making me Im so excited
- The other sisters in the district said that on their island in the Philippines it is normal for bombings and wars to happen....

CULTURE
I know that Ash Wednesday is a thing in America put pretty much everyone celebrated it here with ash crosses on their foreheads it was cool to see

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP
I wish for my spiritual thought I could just quote the whole Book of Mormon. My studies this week have helped me to grow so much and I have recieved revelation from them everyday.

If you want a really good study about faith study Alma 32 I thougjt it was so good. Ill also attatch some other scriptures in my pics about missionary work.

PICS
- Dont judge my handwriting haha but here are some of my studies that I really liked
- Dressing up like Igorots in Botanical Gardens
- Wedding baptism
- Chinease New Year parade
- The electrical workers leaning the ladder on the wires 

It wont let me attatch more but heres my Google Photos link 








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