And of course, Happy Birthday to Mitchell this week!! (I hope you have fantastic birthday!!)
So let's see... This week was a very interesting week. It was a very good week in some points, and a tough week in others.
First, we had a few tough days this week. We had a few days where everyone we were trying to teach was either busy or not home. On Saturday, we only had one teaching appointment. For the rest of the day, we were tracting or walking to other appointments that weren't working out. All in all, it was a long day.
But we had some very good days this week! I got to go on exchanges twice this week. I went out with 2 MTC Sisters on Wednesday, Sister Wilson and Sister Funaki. They were awesome! They were so very new and green, but they were so awesome to be able to go out with! It's always great to feel their excitement for this work. It's a good refresher for how we should feel about this work. I loved it!
This is the view looking out the back of a trike. Jeepneys and trikes, along with lots of walking, are the main modes of transportation in Sister Wilwand's area.
I also got to go on exchanges on Friday with one of the STLs. Her name is Sister Jones, and she is amazing!! We're basically the same person. She's exactly a year older than me in the mission, her birthday is the day before mine, we're both American, we both went to BYU, we both played soccer and love running now... So she's pretty great. We had a fantastic day, and I definitely learned a ton from her! She taught me about working hard and about relying on the Lord. Because here, you have to do both. You can't work hard by yourself and expect real results. You can't rely on the Lord and then do nothing and expect results. You have to do both. It was so great to go out with her and see the kind of potential I might have. She was great!!
We also had a really great day yesterday too! The family that I was so excited about last week came to church again this week! It really was the most amazing thing to see all of them at church again. And when they stayed for Gospel Principles class, they were participating and asking questions, and it was awesome! We were so super excited!
And today was a great day too! We went to a place called Echo Park, and it was awesome! It smelled so clean there, and I loved it! It was really a beautiful place. While we were there, there were tons of teenagers, and all of them kept wanting to take pictures with the American Elders in our zone. Ha! Then, one of the girls wanted to take pictures with Sister Cork and I... That was a little bit weird, but of course we said yes and took pictures with her.
Sister Wilwand, Sister Lavador, Sister Plame & Sister Cork
Echo Park
Echo Park - p-day visit
What else has been going on... Sister Lavador's birthday was last week, and Sister Cork's is this week, so we're planning on celebrating today. I think we're going to make homemade ice cream, so we'll see if that ends up working! Who knows, it might! It also might be too humid and hot here, but we'll hope!
They tried making some ice cream in plastic bags, with ice and salt (Sister Wilwand had done this before in Chemistry and possibly girls' camp) but it didn't work very well. They ended up just putting the mixture in the freezer because it was too hot and too humid for the baggie idea to work. Not sure what she used for ingredients - the milk is not milk like we have in the US. She did say she could get cream...
Anyways, things are going well here! We had transfer announcements next week, and we're all thinking that I'll probably transfer, but we'll see. I really don't know what will happen. We'll see!!
I love you all, and I love this work! It is amazing to see people changing and growing through this gospel. It's fantastic!!
Love,
Sister Wilwand
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