July 8, 2024 WEEK 48 Our Recent Convert Got Kidnapped... 🚐

Bacnotan has been crazy lately we had been hearing of all kinds of shootings and even a forein college student's body being burned, but the worst was when we got a text from our 14 year old recent convert's mom asking if we had seen her. 

The next day we found out while she was walking home from her work a man put a cloth to her face and took her in his van. Luckily when the man stopped the van to pee she ran and escaped. I found out there is a business here of taking kids to manilla and selling their body parts on the black market Im so greatful that she had angels looking out for her. She is ok now 🙏

HIGHLIGHTS 
- 6 friends at church
- Joint DCM and seeing friends 
- Happy 4th of July everyone  :'( :'(
- This guy has been telling the whole barangay that I am his girlfriend and we only met once 
- Tay Jun saying yes to baptism!
- Thinking we were smart and taking a shortcut through a field in a ditch (shoutout to the MTC district) but it ended up filling with water so we spent 15 minutes just trying to get through the muddy field
- Fried Liver (4/10)
- Dynamite Lumpia (10/10 its like a egg roll wrapper with chili pepper and cheese fried)
- Redesigning the Preach My Gospel Cover to my PMG book and making it look aesthetic

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP

I liked this quote from our mission prez President Wilson: "What we do when no one is watching is a measure of our own personal conversion"

I thought it was a good thought about integrity and something we should think about 
Love you all stay safe ♡♡

PICS
- My PMG that I redesigned because I was bored of the regular cover
- Water Gun fight
- teaching sis Pelagio the violin
- the ditch

- a magandang poem we found in the woods








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