December 30, 2024 WEEK 73 Back To Baguio 🏃‍♀️

Transfers this week anddd I'm going back to Baguio!! I'll be in a different area this time called La Trinidad but will get to go back to my first area on exchanges I'm so excited!

HIGHLIGHTS
- I will be training a sister from Africa named sister Patrick
- Christmas actually changed my life, at first we were kind of sad to be working on Christmas but then decided to stop thinking about ourselves and make the most of it.
- On Christmas morning we ended up going to a hospital and got to know the patients there and then I played them Christmas hymns on my violin, the Spirit strongly confirmed to me that morning that I was exactly where God wanted me.
- Christmas afternoon we tried to get to every single progressing friend because of the amount of people who told us they wouldn't have a Christmas this year, I played them a song on the violin and S.Tyler shared a Christmas story we ended up getting to around 15 people before 6:00 and got fed three times it was the best Christmas of my life 
- we played signs for 3 hours today with the whole zone hahaha
- saying goodbye to everyone is always hard 
- The caldwells my favorite senior couple texted my parents to ask what my favorite food is and then made it for me as my last dinner here ♡♡

INDIAN CULTURE 🕌
We met this really cute young Indian family this week and they said that their marriage was arranged by the wife's parents, I did not realize that that was still a thing in the world

ESPIRITUAL NA ISIP
I really love this quote from Elder Raspband
"Magnitude does not distinguish a miracle-just that it came from God"
God is still a God of miracles and I invite you all to look for His miracles in your life everyday :)

PICS 
- After playing signs for hours 
- The Lauetta Family who are all getting baptised in February ♡♡
- Food from Caldwells
- The Lauretta fam got us gifts !! 







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