Another Week in Allen

So, I have not had an area yet in my mission without getting headlice. This isn't technically a new area pero it's a new transfer and I got it again from my new companion. She had SO many. It was crazy. We don't know how long she had it but it must have been LONG because she had tons. So that was a fun Sunday afternoon pulling them out of each other's heads. The first time I got headlice, I was freaking out. Now it's more like, "oh head lice? Cge na let's take care of it" It's like no big deal. Haha kind of sad. I am becoming desensitized!

This week has been good. Sister Smith has been an amazing companion! She is so good, and she really understands that we are doing people a favor teaching them the gospel, not the other way around. She is so bold and good at pushing commitments. I am really learning so much from her in every lesson! It was so cool to see Sister Bessie! She is so cute and it was so fun. And Nanay Casanas! She came to church again last week even though it was hard for her cuz she is getting weaker. She is so cute. She told us she was looking at the picture I gave her the other day and that's why we came back. Also I might have told you that already. I can't remember. But anyway. I had a good week learning to follow the spirit and find those that are prepared for the gospel. 

Today we went to the beach. I tumbled on with one of my zone leaders. It was so fun! I have the coolest picture of me doing a tuck on the beach but I can't send it because it's not pwede here in this cafe. 

I'm sorry it's so short. We only have one hour here. Love you all tons!!!

Sister Sprouse

Temple trip with Jeaneveb

Hello Everyone! This week was.. interesting. A lot of stuff happened but I don't really feel like a lot was happening in our area. We had transfer calls on Monday and I'm just staying put. That is until I am returned to Tacloban. I think that's the reason why they didn't move me or Sister McCurdy.

So this week, Joann almost got baptized. I was really sad that it didn't go through. She got really sick the day of and so she couldn't. (This is all what I'm hearing from Sister T because obviously I'm not in that area anymore) She now has to wait four more weeks for complications or something like that. I'm not sure; Sister T was never a big one for details haha. But the cool story is that when she had her Baptismal interview she told the DL that during our first lesson with her I had told her that God wants to help her with anything she has a problem with. So her husband came home from work with a problem and she remembered that I had told her that and she prayed. I guess at like 2 in the morning someone texted her husband with the solution to his problem. So that was really cool! I am going to write her an encouraging letter and give it to the sisters in that area now so that hopefully she will continue. 

Like the title, we went to the temple on Friday. We didn't get to go inside, but it was really cool because Sister Tagalog (Jeaneveb's mom) had a sister who died and so we went to the Family History center and she was able to print out her name for her sister to get her work done. It was a really good trip. We took a lot of good photos, But I don't know if this computer will be good for sending them. Maybe I will just print them and send them to you like usual. Also, I hope that maybe you guys can save all the photos I send because sometimes a theif steals them from my camera.. Haha. So I would really appreciate that. 

Oh also, we have this little boy we're teaching. He's 8 years old and he has a brother who is 12 who passes the sacrament every week. He's really cute. I call him ungoy (monkey) and sometimes he hangs on my arm like a monkey and I walk around carrying him places. I have a really cute photo of it I will have to send it to you. But he's going to be baptized. If I hang out long enough here I will get to see it! The only problem is when I got that package from Suz and Ralph I gave them all some of the chocolate so whenever his older brother sees me he asks me where the chocolate is.. Haha. It's pretty funny. 

So that's about it for this week! I love you all! 

Sister Sprouse

Aaaand slowly but surely we are all going back to Tacloban

So I was thinking this morning about how my mission has been anything but normal or predictable. I never thought that I would go through anything like what has happened. But if those things didn't ever happen I wouldn't have grown the way that I have. In every thing that happens there is a purpose. I used to think that that purpose was that somewhere in the bad things that happened only good things would come of it, but here I've learned that sometimes the bad things that happen are just bad. There's not a lot of good in a natural disaster. There are some circumstances that we go through and they don't turn into a good circumstance the next day or even for a long time. The good sometimes can't be found anywhere except in your own soul. But I testify that it's there. When we endure all of our trials with faith in Jesus Christ, there is not a single thing that we experience that we won't grow from. I know that every day of our lives is filled with trials but also growth. As we endure, we become not only what we want to become, but what our Savior and our Heavenly Father want us to become.

Okay, so that was a longer tangent than I thought it would be... But what I was really getting at was that another change has been happening for our mission. We are slowly going back almost every week. 2 weeks ago there were 18 PTM missionaries in Tacloban, and now there are 12. Word on the street is that I will probably be going back next week, because they're opening my old area. I don't know if I believe that though. I don't want to accept anything and then be surprised when it doesn't happen. I don't know how I feel about going back or staying. As of this week, I have been in both missions for the exact same amount of time. So I guess I'll have a better idea of how I feel in next weeks email cuz right now I have no idea what's going on (:

So something fun this week.. Let's see.. I went to the dentist! We had to travel to Mindaue which was about a half an hour from Liloan. It was cool though because I did it without getting lost! It's really cool to be able to ask for directions in Visaya and know what they are saying back. But we had gone because it hurt when I drink water that's really cold and sometimes it hurt when I would eat candy. The dentist said two of my fillings had leaks? And so he redid them. And then I just had one cavity and so he did that one. That one was a little interesting because he did it without anesthetic because he said it was really small. It hurt a little haha. But it was cool because he was a member so he gave me 50% off. My whole treatment was 1,450 pesos, or the equivalent of about 25-30 dollars. Right now it still hurts to chew on things but I'm hoping that it's just normal for getting fillings and not the fact that it was a pretty ghetto dentist office. 

Also, there was a 711 and we got SLURPEES! It was so cool! I didn't realize how much I had missed just little things like that. 

Okay that's about it for this last week. Sorry it was kind of boring! Haha love you all! 

Sister Sprouse