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