New Companion, Community Service and a Baptism!

Hello to everyone!

Well, this week has been pretty good!! It started on Wednesday, when I got my new companion! She is awesome!! Her name is Sister Lavador. She's from Cebu, and she's really great. She's kind of weird, so we get along really well =D Sister Plame also got a new companion, Sister Cork. She's from Georgia, and she's awesome! It's cool to have another American in our house. She's just a little bit whiter than me, so whenever the four of us go anywhere, we get lots of stares.

Sister Wilwand with Sister Cork and the adorable Filipino children at their CSP

I hope everyone's Valentine's Day went well! Ours started out with a zone date at a CSP (community service project). It was for a lady in our ward, and we were cleaning our her entire house. We were sweeping, organizing, loading and unloading. It was way fun!! We met the cutest little kids while we were there. Sister Cork and I were talking to them, and they were just the best little friends we've ever had! They're great.

Sister Wilwand and her zone on Valentine's Day doing community service.

We definitely have lots of fun in our house! We have a good mix of cultures here, and it's always a blast when we all get talking together. It was an interesting experience to try to explain to Sister Cork how people go to the bathroom here without using toilet paper. Ha! Don't worry, I'm not going to explain that.

Back to the real stuff... On Saturday, we had a baptism! We had two little kids who were getting baptized. One was from the other Sisters' area, and he was a convert. The other was a little girl from a less-active family that we have been teaching. She is so great! She's probably the shyest person I have ever met in my entire life, but she's so cute! While she was waiting for her baptism, she was jumping up and down, she was so excited!!! It was definitely a testimony builder to see how excited and ready these little kids were to get baptized. I love it!! This gospel is truly amazing.

Let me just say that fasting and prayer really does work!! We have a family that we have been working with for a while, and we're finally starting to see some progress from them! They've had some concerns that we could just not figure out, and they've finally started opening up to us lately. It's great!! We're also having some really progression with some of our investigators too, and we are hoping to start finding some new investigators soon!

One last picture of Sister Wilwand and her zone before transfers and getting a new companion (no pictures yet - she said the computers were very slow last night)

I love this work!! It is hard, but keep working at it! If you are working with someone, and it doesn't work out for them, don't get discouraged! Whether you are planting the seed or harvesting the fruit, this work must go on! Just go and do! Have faith that the Lord will help you! This work is hastening, are you?

I love you all!

Love,

Sister Wilwand