October 21, 2024 WEEK 63 Tell Me You're in Abra Without Telling Me You're in Abra 🐕

Just in this week I feel like I have seen all that the Philipines has to offer.

The story this week is when we bought "chicken" from a small tindahan and got home to unwrap it for it to be a big slab of DOG MEAT. I was gagging and took pictures of it to ask members and they confirmed that it was dog nga
No we didn't try eating it 

HIGHLIGHTS
- Somehow our mission president heard about the dog story and asked us to send pics 
- Me and Sister Tyler keep saying "tell me you're in Abra without telling me you're in Abra" whenever we see something crazy
- Watching Rooster Fights
- Watching a spider fight??
- We live right next door to a senior missionary couple and they give us their leftovers. We haven't cooked in days and they make really good American food
- Abigail passed her baptism interview!
- 3 different people came to church that we met just this week
- hours and hours of finding in the hot sun (the Elders before us had 11 people they were teaching them and half of them were kids)
- a crazy amount of men who let us in just to tell us they are single and looking

CULTURE
The language here is pure Illocano so I have been trying to learn

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP
"And it came to pass that the Lord God caused that there should be a furious wind blow upon the face of the waters, towards the promised land; and thus they were tossed upon the waves of the sea before the wind."
Ether 6:5
Sometimes the fierce winds of life are blowing us towards the promised land ♡
Love you all have a good week! 

PICS
- rat ears
- the dog meat
- I'm back to learning sign language for a recent converts brother 
- spider fighting






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