November 27, 2023 WEEK 16 Doing Dishes in The Shower 🚿

 This week our lovely sink decided to break. All of the pipes on the bottom kind of just came unglued and fell off so this whole week we have either been doing the dishes in the shower or going upstairs to the sisters apartment.

It has been a week full of miracles none the less and I'm starting to find a lot of joy in the work. 

HIGHLIGHTS
- For Thanksgiving we hosted it in our apartment, and invited the 4 sisters upstairs to join. We bought a Baliwag rotisserie chicken, pan de sal, and Jolibee pies
- We got bible bashed and he was really rude so that sucked
- We got to teach English to 5th graders!
- The things teenage boys say about us thinking we dont know Tagalog haha
- Sister Donna our def friend had a dream about a lot of earthquakes and typoons in the Philippines so thats terrifying
- Elder Choi from the "Do you want to be happy" talk in conference came to our stake conference and gave some amazing talks.
- Sister Cox killed an enormous rat with a broom last night, the video is pretty funny of all of us screaming while she was smacking it
- We made a mega med with all of our mattresses in our apartment because of the rats in the other appartment last night

CULTURE
When you tell a lot of information to a Filipino or if you speak too much english to them they will say "that bloodys my nose" Its like their version of "that gives me a headache." That was super confusing for me when I was trying to translate their Tagalog the first few weeks haha

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP
"Whatsoever thing ye shall ask in faith, believing that ye shall receive in the name of Christ, ye shall receive it."
Enos 1:15
I know that through our faith we can do so much, Heavenly Father wants to bless us, and He will if we show Him our faith. 
I love you all have a great week!

PICS
- There is a 6 story mall here 
- Mega bed
- One of our sketchy staircases
- English class
- This is how poinsettias grow
- Thanksgiving
- How narrow the sidewalk on the road is, definitely if I die in the Philippines its going to be because I got ran over












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