Lunch with the Andaya's

This week was good! The problem is I forgot to bring my outline AGAIN! So I will do my best!  Dang it. Sorry. Haha.

Mom, I'm glad you enjoyed the picture of the spider. Haha. The lucky thing about that kind of spider is that even though it's giant, it actually isn't poisonous or harmless. When I saw it I was actually excited because up to that point I hadn't really seen the "giant" spiders everyone talked about.

Hmm. So this week was really good. I finished reading D&C all the way through for the very first time in my life! Sad to say that I hadn't done that till my mission, but I am glad to say I've done it now. It's so amazing and teaches so many vital doctrines of our church. Or I should say it supports tons of vital doctrines that are in the Book of Mormon.

So one interesting thing that happened to us this week is that we destroyed this bunk bed that was infested with termites in our apartment. It was pretty bad. Dust fell on it every day and it was like heavy sawdust. I was sleeping on the top and every time I got on it I felt like Yolanda was back again. Haha. So we (the four of us living in our apartment) took a tiny screwdriver and tried to dismantle it nicely. When that didn't work we just kicked it until it broke. It was remarkably more easy than it should have been to have four Sister Missionaries break it.

We had Zone Conference this week. It was the first zone conference to take place since Yolanda!  President and Sister Andaya will be going home on June 29. They seem not to be excited. It was so cute; Sister Andaya gave us advice for the rest of our lives also because she's "not going to be around" It was a really good, uplifting zone conference. When we drove home I was just kind of reflecting on all the things that I heard, and I was able to feel such peace. It was a bad van drive home because everyone was getting sick (the van drivers are crazy ) but I just felt Heavenly Father's love for me so deeply in that moment. It was an incredible feeling in a really unlikely place.

We got to go to Women's Conference also. It was really cute because Sister Andaya was there with her daughter and her arm around her when it talked about smiling at your mom in gratitude. Mom it made me sad to think about not being there and it definitely made me miss you, but I think that the time we will have to spend away from each other on my mission will make the time we have together when I come home even more worth it.

After the conference, President and Sister Andaya gave us a ride home, which was a relief because it meant the ride would be 20 minutes instead of 45 to an hour in a nice clean car instead of a dirty jeepnee. After that they took us to lunch also! It was really cool just having the two of us out to lunch with them. They are so nice and it was really good getting to know them better. I will miss them when it's time for them to go home. (Which will probably seem really fast since my mission is kind of flying by)

Okay that's all for now. Sorry if I forgot anything!! I love you all so much!

Ingat po kayo palagi!

Sister Sprouse