President Maurer
Missionaries of the Tacloban Mission,
It has taken me almost a whole week to review your letters, and what a THRILL it has been for me to get to know you. You are an amazing group of missionaries. Please keep up the great work and tradition that surrounds this mission.
I have just been so touched by the MANY "welcomes" and warm wishes that you have given to Sister Maurer and myself. We look forward to serving with each of you, and learning from you. Thank you for your kindness.
I was, however disappointed that a largeg percentage did not write, this week. Please be assured I will read every letter and would love to hear to from. I also hope that you write home to your parents each week. If you could share with me any insights you are learning thru your experiences or study, then that might be a great way to reflect on your own progress. In addition, if you could share a miracle that happened during the week. If we look for the miracles, then we will have them.
The Assistants, Sister Maurer and myself look forward to meeting you all this week and next. We will meet by Zone in your area. So please be reminded that we will come to the location for YOUR Zone only.
With regards,
President & Sister Maurer
It has taken me almost a whole week to review your letters, and what a THRILL it has been for me to get to know you. You are an amazing group of missionaries. Please keep up the great work and tradition that surrounds this mission.
I have just been so touched by the MANY "welcomes" and warm wishes that you have given to Sister Maurer and myself. We look forward to serving with each of you, and learning from you. Thank you for your kindness.
I was, however disappointed that a largeg percentage did not write, this week. Please be assured I will read every letter and would love to hear to from. I also hope that you write home to your parents each week. If you could share with me any insights you are learning thru your experiences or study, then that might be a great way to reflect on your own progress. In addition, if you could share a miracle that happened during the week. If we look for the miracles, then we will have them.
The Assistants, Sister Maurer and myself look forward to meeting you all this week and next. We will meet by Zone in your area. So please be reminded that we will come to the location for YOUR Zone only.
With regards,
President & Sister Maurer
I don't know how to get it off grey...Anyway. I haven't met President Maurer yet, but everyone who has says that he's AWESOME. I'll get to meet him on the 16th. We have zone interviews that day. I'm really excited. He is from New Zealand so he's got a pretty cool accent, and I'm pretty sure he served in the Philippines before and knows Tagalog. I'll let you know more about him when I meet him.
This week was a bit of a stressful one, but it had a beautiful end to it. We went to get this Recent Convert family and their two sons who are investigators (Nelson and Lloyd) to come to church. We were going to walk with them because they don't have pamasahe. They were very, however, late to get started. (Philipino time) and we were a little bit late to church. The two sons said that they would follow after on the family bike but then the other RC son biked past and they didn't come, so we were pretty bummed about it. But we were able to stop by another Investigator Sister, Wilhelmina, whose mother is also a RC. We sat in Relief Society, and then we got to teach a really lovely Gospel Principles lesson about Charity to our recent converts and investigators.
When we got up to sacrament, we saw that Lloyd and Nelson had actually come!! We were also so so grateful to see that 5 other investigators had come to church! We had 7 attend sacrament meeting, when last week we only had 2. I know it was a tender mercy from the Lord. We had been working very hard during the week, but I still know that it wasn't from us. It was only through the Lord helping us along the way. There were a couple time when I could only pray to the Lord for the strength to make it through the day, but I received the strength to go above and beyond that. We learned this week that as to our strength we are weak, but in the Lord we can do all things.
When we got up to sacrament, we saw that Lloyd and Nelson had actually come!! We were also so so grateful to see that 5 other investigators had come to church! We had 7 attend sacrament meeting, when last week we only had 2. I know it was a tender mercy from the Lord. We had been working very hard during the week, but I still know that it wasn't from us. It was only through the Lord helping us along the way. There were a couple time when I could only pray to the Lord for the strength to make it through the day, but I received the strength to go above and beyond that. We learned this week that as to our strength we are weak, but in the Lord we can do all things.
Also, I LEARNED TO MAKE PANCIT. I am so excited to make you all try Philipino foods when I get home (: They're really yummy!
I love you alll!! Have a wonderful week and remember that I love and pray for you always!!
Love, Sister Sprouse
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