She's a ghost, no wait, she's a fairy...and the Salamat mystery.

So, this week was great! we got to watch the general women's conference!!! and that was wonderful. hope you all caught the lil Filipino kids singing I am a Child of God!!! (but not in tagalog soooo whatevs) there are a bazillion languages here... that may or may not have been.... yeah idk. 

General Women's broadcast with Sister Ayub

Story time! we went to visit a less active the other day and we turned the corner and this lil munchkin was like at the front of the house and he had his back to us and then turned around and saw us way fast and GASPED!!! like he saw a ghost.... i guess i'm whiter than i thought..... my comp thought it was hilarious and decided that it was because he thought i was a fairy.... but she couldn't remember the english word for fairy so we spent like 15 mins trying to figure out what the heck she was talking about that had wings and was me.... so great. 

More fun! we're teaching this family with the last name of Salamat. and another family with the last name of Salamat. yes they're exactly the same. one is a less-active family, one is a investigator family. it's generally very confusing. but the other night we were headed to the investigators and this dude was riding his scooter kwan the other direction and stopped and asked if we were his friends that used to come teach? so we start talking to him and his last name is Salamat! so im thinking it's the dad of this family we're about to go to (i've never met the dad) but the family has 13 kids and lives in the same direction he was saying his house was in... i thought it was a safe assumption. so i'm like oh! yeah! we're headed to your house right now! you have like a bazillion kids right? (13 is a lot.) and he's like ummmm tama lang. (just right) im like yeah sure sparky 13 is tama lang and he's like what? i have three kids! and it's super awkward and im not really sure why... after talking through that awkwardness a lil we come to find out that these three kids he's speaking of are actually with a mistress and he's very aware of that sin and that's why he stopped listening to the missionaries dati... he was embarrassed of his whoredoms... and here i am asking about what im sure sounded to him like "hey ya been sleeping around with any more women in the neighborhood????" good move jones.  

On a more successful note! we got a new investigator this week named Nicolas! he's super old. ok not really. but he's an older man.... and we taught him for the first time and he was super open and receptive and we're just talking to him and he tells us about his family that he has no contact with and how he just feels all alone and he wants nothing more than to reconnect with his family. So sad! but we were able to show him that he's not alone and really just help him feel that God is aware of him! it was really cool! then we got to see some snakes :) (he's the caretaker of this giant beautiful house that has a bunch of snakes) cool. 

This week we get to watch general conference!!! super excited for that. we've been spending the last two weeks inviting people. hopefully someone (anyone!!!) will come. i literally cannot get more enthusiastic in my invitations.... so hopefully all of you got to watch it this weekend!! if not.... i invite you to consider your ways and repent. and watch it online!! hahaha elder bednar is so awesome. 

peace out!

-sister jones