Merry Christmas!!! Starting September 1st it is Christmas time in the Philippines. Awesome right? We have been singing Christmas songs with our investigators all week. Crazy eh? These people are awesome.
So a few weird things about the Philippines that I love. When people don't have any 1 peso coins left for change, they give you a mento. For real. because those cost one peso. I haven't figured out why they don't' just have more 1 pesos instead of buying mentos for backup, but whatever. It's awesome.
When you are walking on the streets you say good morning ect to everyone. At 5:59pm you say maayong hapon.. good afternoon and at 6:00pm exactly you start saying maayong gabi.. Seriously if you are 2 minutes off people look at you like you're crazy. It's awesome.
People are always shocked if we say anything in Ilonggo and if we say even just Ano ini?..what is this? they say Wow.. sagad ka sa ilonggo! "wow you are so talented at ilonggo". It's hilarious. The only other Americans i have seen since I've been here are other missionaries. People just love to talk to us. It's great. When we go to new areas we have literally 20 people follow us around. The little kids LOVE giving high fives. I have alot of fun with it. I love the little kids.
So, I started walking again on Saturday morning. It was a hard week not walking but I was able to study a lot from the scriptures and study the language. It helped a lot and I'm excited to start sharing the scriptures I found and using the language principles.
We taught on Friday and Saturday in bamboo huts with dirt floors. Apparently there are like 4 parts of our area like that. It's incredible that people live like this. Their whole house is smaller than our kitchen here and way smaller than my bedroom back home. But truly things do not bring happiness. It's relationships, it's faith, it's who we are developing into.
We were able to teach our investigator Cliffen this week. He is never home and we can never teach him but I suggested we just stop by his house and he was home! It was a miracle we taught him a great lesson and he is super excited for his baptism. And then he came to sacrament meeting on Sunday even though he had work. When he walked in with his family I was almost in tears. And he is reading the Book of Mormon. It's so awesome to see how the gospel blesses people. I was able to testify to him about how the gospel can bless his family, how they can feel God's love in their home, how he can be a good example, have guidance to raise his daughter, and have the priesthood to bless his family. It was awesome.
As we live the gospel we find happiness. We feel peace. We become more like Christ.. by the fruits of the gospel I know that it is true.
Ether 12:41 Seek that Jesus. As we seek Christ He guides us and helps us become like Him.
I love you all so much!!! Thank you for all your support and love! The church is true. God is our father.
Love, Sister Foote
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