March 17, 2024 WEEK 31Ghost Busters 🚫👻

 This week was transfers...and...I moved into a very haunted house :)

One of the other Filipino sisters who lived here has a third eye and could actually see the ghost but she said she mostly just lived in the bathroom downstairs although we are 99% sure it moved to the upstairs bathroom where our room is.

We haven't had anything too bad but I learned how to sleep with my hands covering my ears from the many freaky noises in this house at night.

HIGHLIGHTS
- About the ghost: her name is Patricia, she is friendly, multiple priesthood leaders have tried to get her out of the house but the sisters say during the prayer she puts her arms around them and still stays, we wondered if there is some type of work we need to do for her.
- Transfers! I got transfered to San Fernando with a sister from my old district Sister Peaua and then President called me and I got retransfered to Aringay with Sister Meng another American it's been a lot of fun
- A lot of our teaching area is straight on the beach it's the coolest. My favorite place we taught was in a bamboo grass hut right on the sand 5 feet from the ocean.
- ITS SO HOT I've never been sweating this much in my life 
- I had to say goodbye to S. Tu'Ivai and Burnham which was so hard I loved our friends so much and Sister Tu'Ivai became a really good friend
- Saying goodbye to all of the friends and getting to eat a lot of dinners with people
- Sister Meng got really sick so we missed church for the first time in both of our missions
- Our house is actually really nice it is two stories and all to ourselves 

CULTURE
We live next to three different cemeteries and here they don't bury the dead they put them in tombs above the ground

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP
We sang hymn 266 "The Time is Far Spent" and the lyrics really hit me this week, I would recommend anyone to look up all the lyrics and ponder them but these were my favorite from v 3&4
"3.What, tho, if the favor of Ahman possessing, This world’s bitter hate you are called to endure? The angels are waiting to crown you with blessings! Go forward, be faithful, the promise is sure.
4.Be fixed in your purpose, for Satan will try you; The weight of your calling he perfectly knows.Your path may be thorny, but Jesus is nigh you; His arm is sufficient, tho demons oppose."

PICS
- my new comp
- saying goodbye to people









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