So this week was chill. we had temple tour and that went super well! we crammed 10 missionaries and 15 others in a jeepney and trecked on over to the temple. (jeepneys usually hold about 22.... smaller people....) but it was awesome! rose and her son jeff came and their new kid aljon!
So aljon is actually rose's nephew but they kinda just adopted him or something... he moved in with them. then that night we taught them all, sat he went to temple tour, sunday he went to church, and the'll be getting baptized on August 3rd :) He's 13 and when jeff introduced him to us he was like this is brother aljon, he's 13, is he a teacher or a deacon? it was hilarious cuz aljon literally had no idea who the heck we were or what was happening... good times. :)
Other news..... i swear we teach people other than rose and her family.....
they're just the funniest slash most progressing. also hilarious. people have a really hard time understanding the concept of fasting. like a really hard time. we'll teach it and everything and they're like oh yeah sweet i've done that heminah heminah
But then! we were fasting and we go to their house and they're like did you go to your place and eat? and we're like no, we're fasting. and they're like ok. did you eat at the church? nooo we're fasting. ok. do you want something to eat? nooo we're fasting. ok. did you drink water?? nope. still fasting. ok. so you just can't eat hard foods, right? but you can eat soft foods (whatever that means....) and drink water and everything, right? nope. still fasting. no food, no water, 24 hours. that's what fasting means!!!!!!! oooooooh. wait, seriously? what if you get thirsty? umm you suck it up. seriously??? yeaaaaah cuz we're fasting :) good times.
follow-up conversation (5 mins later) i bet that's why those two missionaries died. they were walking all day everyday and they didn't drink any water. lolz so great.
mmk. ummm a ton of missionaries are going home this transfer and it's gonna be crazy! this was the first batch that was actually called to this mission after it split. and the first batch that came in with President Sperry as the president... it's like all the zone leaders and aps and stuff... weird! (transfer day is next week, i'm not training again so pretty much anything could happen but i'll probs transfer....)
We're going on exchanges tomorrow with the other sisters in the branch and this is the first time i will be the senior comp on the exchanges, going into the other sisters' area. it's weird. but should be way fun. i'll be with sister miner who is super great but she's been having a really rough time. we spent a lot of time this week finding random ways to cheer her up :) it was super fun! and hopefully it helped. she seems to be doing better! it reminded me how much i want to hit up psychology when i get home... like a masters or whatevs :)
let's seeeeee. i used my credit card for the first time ever here earlier today and i handed it to the girl and she literally looked at it and was like "ano ba iyan??" which means like what the heck?? it was hilarious. she called over like 6 other workers and they had a lil meeting (which they assumed i didn't understand lolz, so fun to listen to...) before they decided that i actually could use it! and it was totally normal! yay!!! it caused quite the stir.
Happy birthday 'merica!!!!! so on the fourth of july here we did.... nothing!!!! but the next day! (when it was the fourth for all you kids) we had a baptism! so on the way back we bought anything that we could think of slash find that was american. aka chicken nuggets and pepperoni pizza (which could only be identified as pepperoni pizza by the label... but beggars can't be choosers, right? lolz) and the other sisters bought a cake that was sooooo good! and the cake people decorated it for us! so it said happy independence america!! twas presh. then we came home and sang american songs! aaaaand that was the end of our festivities. there goes my one and only fourth of july here!!! (weird.)
There's a storm a brewing up in hur and we didn't bring umbrellas! looks like we're in for a wet night! speaking of wet nights. i struggle at walking sometimes. specifically this week. i fell THREE times! (the ground gets really slippery when it's wet and my shoes don't have the best traction in the world slash any traction... details) all on the same foot.... it has a lovely abrasion/wound that kinda looks like a star/tattoo gone wrong on the top.... it's not my favorite thing in the world. but the first fall was absolutely hilarious.
we were walking from one appointment that we got punted from to our next appointment (which we also got punted at which made this oh so much better) and we decided to take the scenic short cut thing that goes past the river. (it's way pretty) so the last time we did that there was a lil river thing that we had to step over and one part of it was wider so we went to the narrower part but then the other side was steeper
(i feel like this isn't making any sense.... i would be using my hands a lot if i was telling this story in person... you'll figure it out.) so last time we took the steeper side cuz we didn't want to fall in the river... k it's more like a stream. anyway. last time it was a lil slippery but it worked just fine!
so this time i went first (bad idea) and i stepped over to the other side and immediately started falling slash slipping slowly back into the river! and i couldn't just step backwards blindly back to the other side so i lean down and grab onto two rocks. and im convinced that if i can step on these rocks it will get me far enough up the hill thing to get to the top.
long story short. that was an epic fail. i slipped right on back into the river.
ps this whole time some very concerned, hilarious, and slightly drunk neighbors were trying to direct me to safety. and sister chamberlain was cracking up. as was i. and we were in veeeeerry colorful matching dresses. oh we were a sight.
well that's all i can remember but that may or may not be because i just woke up from a nap.... some things never change. gotta love p-days. ;)
peace out!
-sister jones
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