Mini MTC, District Boodle Fight, and a Baptism!!

this week was chill.

On sat we taught at a "mini mtc" for the youth preparing to go on missions! we thought it would be like 18-19 year olds that have everything ready except their call..... nope. definitely all the young men ages 12-18! it was still really cool though. and the little ones were way legit! they're gonna be ridiculously ready by the time they're 18.

Sister Cestona and Sarah Teaching at the Mini MTC

 Then we had a .... wait for it..... boodle fight!!!!! yes i was just as mislead as you are by the name. i thought we were gonna have a food fight with banana leaves as our only defense..... whatevs. i guess this was cool too ;)

District before the Boodle Fight

Our district and the Boodle fight

joke lang, it was totes awesome. so they just put a bunch of food on banana leaves (rice and ulam) and then it's a race to see who can eat their section the fastest with their hands..... except we weren't very intense about it so mostly it was just all of u eating with our hands off of banana leaves..... still cool.

 Then we went to two baptisms!!! the first one was for our darling relamie!! she got baptized!!!! and two lil 8 year olds that were tiny!!!!
We went to a baptism for a kid that sister mower oym-ed on the bus!!! and he's awesome!!!! so we went to support him cuz he has no family support and sister mower and i sang a lil something for him. it was good.
and sister cestona spoke, sister chamberlain prayed, and i was the chorister.... there were also four elders there whose baptism it actually was.....

Sis Mae

Two random little 8 year olds

This week is our meeting with elder echo hawk. that'll be exciting. we all get to prepare a lil talky talk and then he's gonna call on randoms to speak. keepin us on our toes :)  (Sarah is also singing in the choir for that)

The Certeza family is amazing. everyone that meets them is like "that right there is a golden family" or sometimes, "you got yourselves a golden family right there!" these are direct ish quotes btw.... and it's true they're so amazing.
 and the only thing that is keeping them from everything is they're not married!!! but no worries, we got some solid info on how to fix that. sana this week. and it will only cost like 400 peso. that's like.... 10 dollars. they have been waiting for over 12 years to get married because of a lack of 10 dollars.
yep. that's gonna change.

church is true.
hayaan mo, lahat ay magiging makatarungan sa wakas.

-sister jones