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Maayong udto everyone!
[Philippines Iloilo Mission😊]
[Hahaha]
Pasensya gid pero my weekly will be kind of short this week! So I'll just share some highlights of what happened this per usual: I'm in a trio! Yup that's right, Sister Quinton now has 2 moms! haha, we got a call Monday night from the Zone Leader's and we were freaking out because we thought one of us was transferring, but it turns out that we would get a new companion, yay! So Tuesday we did the preparations that we need to get everything settled for Sister Salan (She's my batch! We arrived to Iloilo at the exact same time). We had to get another bed, electric fan, etc. It was pretty crazy and our apartment is pretty small pero we've been making it work. 😄
[Trio adventures!]
[Batch and Companion!]
So we got the call to head over to the transfer point to wait for our new companion and after a while, she arrived! It's so cool to have a companion that you pretty much haven't seen since you arrived to the mission because after talking we saw how much we changed and just everything we've experienced! Sister Salan...speaks Cebuano so I've been picking up a couple Cebuano words from her. Nami jud (Nami gid (really cool))! It's also really funny because Sister Quinton said now she has 2 moms - one that could cook (me) while one does her 12-week training (S. Salan)!
[We're making the trio life work 😆]
[Potential Christmas card photo? 😄]
[Sister Quinton gave us prayer rugs from her lola, so cute! 😄]
Another highlight of this week was GENERAL CONFERENCE. Wow. I'm speechless at how awesome conference was. Also I can't believe that I only have one General Conference left until I'm going home! 😩 It feels like just yesterday that I had my first General Conference with my trainer, Sister Reyes, and this past weekend I had my second General Conference with my bata (child), Sister Quinton. I wonder what will be happening when it's my third General Conference. 😊 Anyways there was so many good things that I learned from conference but I think my favorite has to be Elder L. Andersen from the Sunday Morning Session. Please watch it or listen to it or read it! It's amazing! (Click: "Wounded" by Elder Neil L. Andersen)
[After General Conference 😊]
So this conference was also the first time that I came prepared with questions and it honestly made such a difference to the way I listened to conference, and not only that but I really got answers to my questions. It's crazy to think how generally they talk to the entire world and how personally a talk, a phrase, or a sentence can hit you. I know that the Holy Ghost plays a huge role in my understanding of answers to the questions I prepared. Honestly every conference I will definitely spiritually prepare myself with questions and I urge you guys to do the same! 😄
[Elders had a baptism 😊]
[Video: The struggle to get the Christmas tree up this year!]
[Sister Quinton's mom sent a tree!
It's actually really tiny and SO CUTE!]
[Sister Quinton's mom, you're the best!]
There's a lot more stuff that happened pero that's the most important I'd like to share for this week 😊 I'll try better next week! I hope you're all doing well!
Halong kamo pirme,
Sister Ventura
Philippines Iloilo Mission (Jan 2018 - July 2019)
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Sister Elza Ventura
Philippines Iloilo Mission
Osmeña Street,
Arevalo, Iloilo City,
5000 Iloilo
Philippines
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