This week was good! Busy, busy, busy! We went to Bacolod last Monday for the birthday celebrations of Sister Nanlabi and Sister Dela Cruz who are two sisters with us in the house. We had quite the experience hahah it was quite a day. It was a ton of fun but probably the most tiring day ever and when we went to teach a lesson at our recent convert's house, they fed us dinner and we spent the entire hour of eating laughing because I was so loopy hahha. The lesson we taught was interesting to say the least. I was dead tired.
Then on Wednesday, we had zone conference which was held in the same building as my first four transfers here in the mission, which brought a lot of flashbacks but it was good to be back! Maybe I will start and end my mission going to the same chapel for zone conference. But yeah, Sister Regacho and I were the ones that trained at zone conference, which this zone conference in the south is made up of 4 huge zones contrary to the other ones of three small zones so needless to say, there were a ton of missionaries. But it all turned out well and I think that will be my last time training at a zone conference which is okay with me hahha. It is stressful! Especially with President watching you... BUT President Sumagpao was making his training for the afternoon session while we were speaking and he totally said at the beginning of his training that he got his idea of what to train on from something I said! So that was cool and he gave me a shoutout! So his whole training was based off something I had said in my training(: So I think that means we did a good job!
Then on Thursday, we had exchanges and I led the area and my companion was Sister Dansie, the new trainee in our apartment. I had a lot of fun cause I got to be reminded of how training feels and it makes me excited to hopefully train another missionary in my last remaining transfers! I love training even though it's tough! But Sister Dansie is so sweet and super smart. I got to reminisce on my days when I still didn't really understand what was going on most of the time and you just kind of stay quiet and let your companion do all the talking. It's crazy how fast time flies cause that doesn't feel like very long ago to me. Weird!
Then Friday was I think that funniest, most insane adventure experience I have had here on my mission. So this whole week it has been POURING rain like it's been crazy and nonstop. And there is one of our areas (I think I have sent pictures of it) where we are required to cross a river, and climb a muddy hill to get to the house of the people we teach. Well, we went to go to them but the river had flooded and was up to our waist in height (when it usually is up to our ankles) so Sister Regacho said there was a round-about way where there was this bridge we could cross. So we went around and oh my goodness it took 1.5 hours to get there and we were walking through ankles high mud and streams and slipping all over the place and by the end I was covered in mud up to my knees and even on my skirt. I took some videos that I'll try to upload but it was so funny hahha we were dying. By the end, our whole bodies hurt, we were sweating like a pig, and we were covered in mud and we had scratches all over the place. So yeah I have some pretty good battle scars from that experience. We eventually got to the house and thank goodness cause they were there and we taught them and they were amazed and touched by the effort we put forth just to get to their house. It helped us to explain how important they were to us! It was a good lesson and then we rushed to get back and Sister Regacho and I both were like "No way are we going back the way we came" and so we just crossed the river which was wasit-deep and we got soaked but it took 5 minutes instead of 1.5 hours haha. Then we pulled up to our lunch appointment with the other sisters and they were like Woah what happened to y'all and we just laughed. It's hard to explain in words what we went through but let's just say we were laughing the whole time! Missions are great.
It's also been a great week in the work of the Lord. The son of the two recent convert's of ours totally asked us when he could get baptized which we were so excited about. We came home and started hopping up and down like crazy people because we were so excited! His name is RJ and he is so awesome and has just barely gotten out of his shell as we have been working on building a relationship with him so he doesn't hide from us every time we get to his house. So now he has a goal date set for September 14 so hopefully everything goes well! He has no problems with the word of wisdom and has already come to church twice so we are just working on building his testimony of Jesus Christ so we can make sure he is converted and baptized for all the right reasons and in the right time! I love this work! That family is seriously so close to my heart. They are so fun and such good missionaries too! RJ has already been inviting his friends to come to church. He's so awesome!
That's all I got for this week, but stay tuned for next week! Hahah I love y'all and miss y'all and hope this week isn't too stressful for y'all. I will pray for you all continually!!!
Sister Robertson
Here is video of us slogging through the mud on our way to our appointment...
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| bacolod is the city of smiles!! |
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| Teaching and training at zone conference |
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| there is a garden at the mini zoo also |
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| this was the river we crossed which is up to our hips in depth |
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| this happened multiple times on our journey to that one house. what an experience |
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| this is how they make coal- just a fun fact hahha |
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| this is the birthday lunch we had at some super fancy restaurant it was all soooo yummy |
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| hahha this is a funny story. my philipino companion microwaved beef jerky and basically almost broke the microwave and it came out black and hard as a rock- do not recommend |
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| this is a philipino thing- its coconut juice! |
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| my companion (: |
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| my mission child!!! we saw each other at zone conference and we tried to recreate our picture from her first zone conference |
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| we are happy cause its sunday!! |
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| my la carlota family!! this is rj on the left who asked us when he could get baptized |
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| some of the people we teach came to church for the first time and they were so happy! |
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| we got some fancy bread at SM and we were happy cause we were sooo hungry |
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| this is my favorite person ever his name is ritchelio and he reminds me of bob marley in how he looks but in how he acts he is an angel. we love him. |
