All sorts of good things happening

So it feels like i just wrote yesterday!! but it was wednesday naman sooo i guess a few things have happened since then....

yesterday was awesome. we had church (surprise!!) ok ok ok. it was fast sunday! so first awesome thing that happened, our less active got up and bore his testimony!! this was super exciting for many reasons. he is suuuuuper shy and kinda just came to church passively but then! he went to some youth activity and got friends! then! he started working with the elders!! (18 years old) and now! he's like doing really great and wants to serve a mission and has started the first steps of his papers! I

it was also great because his whole family was there to hear it! and after that he, his older sister, and older brother, all stayed for all three hours! (usually most of them go home after sacrament....) so great! that was exciting. we were super proud of him.

Then! we went to teach sister nora! our favorite less active that is actually just house ridden. rough. but she like used to be a temple worker and everything, she's amazing. talked to her for a bit. (taught her pala) she's the kind of person that just makes you pumped on life every time you talk to her. one of those that when other people visit her, they are the ones that leave uplifted. so great. 

So we're leaving that house and walking to another that's not too far away and this lady yells at us (in a nice way) are you from here? and we're like uhhh.... no. no we're not. anyway we start talking to her and she's like anak! go get the ipad to take a picture!! so she takes a picture with us on her ipad.... they're doing pretty well for themselves.... and we meet her and her husband and her adopted daughter that's actually her niece. 

And they invite us in! and feed us dinner and talk to us all about how they weren't even supposed to be home but their car broke down so they couldn't leave like they wanted to and now they're so glad cuz these two angels came and visited them!! (that was us ;) )

so we taught them and set a return and then we were super late so we needed to trike and they were like just ride the motor! (no can do) ok well here! pamasahe!! (they paid for our trike) but they paid like waaaaaay more than we needed... but we pretty much just gave it to our next investigator.... wait lang, story on the way

So we went back to our awesome lil family that came from the college thing!! but mark had already left!! cuz we were way late cuz that unexpected investigator was way madaldal.... but we started to teach the mom by herself and then the dad came home!!! he came home from work early just so he could listen to us!!! then we had a great lesson and he was like we'll totally go to church on sunday! expect to see us there!! yay!!!!!! and then he gave a ride on his trike to our next place which was way far. he tried not to let us pay him buuuuut we just gave him the money from the other family :) perfect! 

anyway! the mission is great and the ward is great and the people are great and this week is going to be great! 

love you all! 

ps. in the dad's closing prayer i almost started crying. and i'm not a weeper. the mission still hasn't changed that. it was so awesome. he was just praying that his family could receive salvation and all be together and it was so sincere. moments like that..... :D

-sister jones