first off.
With surprise and joy Sister Jones and Sister Loo are pleased to announce the marriage of their investigators
Cherrycel Cunanan and Victor Certeza!!!!
you are cordially invited to their wedding ceremony THIS SATURDAY!!!!!! at 8 am.
hope you can make it, nbd it's just a few hours away...
Yep crazy. on Sunday a sister in the ward (Nora) announced a free wedding happening this sat. plenty of time to plan a wedding, right? totes. so we go to them sunday night and we're like oh hey why aren't you guys married yet? and they were like umm we don't have any money and brother doesn't have a birth certificate! and we were like welllll we don't know anything about weddings here but we are going to find a way!!!!!!!! and then we left. not having any idea how to make that work.
No worries, the Lord knows how to make everything work!!! so the next day the same sister, Nora, was like hey do you need the forms for that wedding or what? and we were like umm he doesn't have a birth certificate and it takes 10-15 days to get one daw sooo probs won't be ready for this wedding. we're gonna figure something else out. then nora sent the most exciting text message i have yet to receive in my young life. she said and i quote, "Kung may edad na cla di na kailangan ang birth certificate.. Kc sagot na ng citihall bsta 25 na edad pataas." !!!!! best thing ever!!!!
Oh wait. we don't even know how old brother is!!!! dang it... good thing we randomly got their phone number a few days ago and we can just send em lil texty text to find out!!!! answer: Victor: 36, Cherrycel: 29. dalawa sa kanilla may edad na daw!!!!!
(Translation: if they are middle aged they do not need a birth certificate. and middle aged officially means 25 or older daw.... aka they're both old enough!!!!!)
So of course!!! we want to tell them the good news in person. they can get married on saturday!!!! and be a complete family now!! and get baptized!!!! and then get sealed in the temple!!!!! so excited. unfortunately we have lots of other appointments and they won't be home till 6! we have to wait allll day!!! lame.
6 o clock. we roll up in our trikey trike and the little girls were all waiting for us at the top. we go into the house and teach a lesson!!! it took all our strength and self-control but we contained our excitement and taught them about the family a proclamation to the world and how awesome it is. and then!!!!!! wa-bam! you can get married on sat!!!!!! brother was dazed, sister was crying, the kids are singing "you're gonna get married" it was a party. except sister was like i don't have a dress!!!! and we were like seriously!!!?? that's what you're crying about!??? we got this. so now we're on wedding dress/clothes hunt.... never thought i would be doing that on my mish.
Hopefully all our plans are not destroyed by the bucket loads of rain that haven't stopped falling for the past three days!!!!!
to be continued.........
second!!!
so you know that super awesome less active (Relamie) that sister loo found right before i got here and has come to church every week since and invited all her friends to church and works with us every sat, which is her only day without school, and introduces us to a ton of awesome new investigators like weekly????
yeah she's legit. so obviously, we want to get her solid in the gospel. like involved in the church and sound in her testimony. so we're working on the new and returning member form for her and she needs an interview with bishop! so we sat her down after church to get her an interview.
she comes out and we're walking away (cuz she's gonna come work with us again cuz she's a champ) and she whispers to us, sister, i never had this happen (puts her hands on top of her head like in the confirmation) and we're like whaaaaaa? and she's like you know, when you go to the front after you're baptized and they put their hands on top of your head... yeah they never did that for me.......
she was never confirmed a member!!!!! kaya pala wala pang records niya sa ward natin!!!! ano ba yan!!! she's not a member.
cooooool. most random and unexpected news ever!!!!!! so sweet. we turn around and are like oh hey bishop.... she's not a member yet pala......
time to reteach the lessons!!!
so here's what happened. the missionaries taught her when she was in fifth grade, mga 12 years old. and she was suuuuuuper mahiya (shy) so she got baptized on sat but then she was sooooo terrified to go to the front of the congregation for her confirmation that she didn't go to church the next day.... or any day ever again!!! and she hid from the missionaries because she was so shy and scared they would make her go to the front.... so she was never confirmed a member....... crazinesssssssss. there goes all our member present numbers......
no worries we just got a progressing investigator with a baptism date that works with us weekly... instantly!! she's so funny. and she's still terrified to go to the front to be confirmed...... we have until sept 7th to work on that!!! and we told her she can get a blessing before :) she's a champ.
third!!
Last thursday we got a phone call! (not unusual, the district leader calls every thursday for follow-up calls..) so we were both suuuuper tired. so we were lying in our beds in the dark holding the phone so we could just wake back up to the call, chat real quick like, then go straight to sleep. which was great! except the district leader never called. instead! the zone leaders called! so half asleep i answered. they were like hey, we need your help! (not a normal way to start a conversation at 10 on a thursday night... just so you know...) (also i was kinda already super out of it when they called so i still kinda thought it was the district leader.....) im like sweet what can we do for you? and they're like wellll the stake president just called us this morning and we're having a conference for 300 people (non-members) at the church TOMORROW at 8 am! and you need to bring alllll your Books of Mormon and all your lesson one pamphlets cuz we're gonna do work.
crazy random! so im like uhh cge, goodnight! and i go straight back to sleep.... bad idea... i woke up and thought that phone call was a dream..... good thing it said it really happened on the phone! so we wake up and tell the sisters we have to be at the church in an hour.... lolz
Then pack alllll our two boxes of boms that we just got two days ago and all our lovely lesson 1 pamphlets annnnd hauled them to the church to the 300 new investigators... seriously we were so confused what was happening.....
We show up and it's a college seminar!!!! and they were like using the church grounds so they decided to let us tell them what the church actually was!!! so our bishop was like you have 20 mins to tell them about the church (the zone leaders... the rest of us were just pamphlet passer-outers....) and then they were like joke lang their first speaker hasn't shown up yet so take as long as you want! you have two hours!!!! crazzzzzy...
So we have here around 300 college students chilling in the church cultural hall that have given us their full (ish) attention. nbd.
so introductions were made and then the zone leaders taught.... the whole first lesson!!! which i thought would be weird. and long. but it was super awesome! they did a super great job!!! and were surprisingly funny! which was perfect for this group! so yep! that was probs a once in a mission/lifetime kinda dealio....... good times.
anyway. the rain is crazy, at maraming baha kahit saan ka papunta! but we're safe!! hope you all have a great week!
-sister jones
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