Thursday, December 11, 2014

Hello Everyone !

DateToday 03:44
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Hello Everyone! It's been kind of a crazy week, so I'm sorry that I can't write everyone back who sent me an email. We got permission to write our families on a day that's not pday because we couldn't email on Pday. 

What happened started last week on Friday. We got a call in the morning that Sister Asug and I were transferring. The Zone Leaders said we should leave at a time that was best for us, and so I decided we should leave as soon as possible. We packed within one hour and left really early. That was really good because about half way through, we received a message that transfers were cancelled because of the storm. There were a lot of Elders and Sisters who couldn't find any rides, so if we hadn't left early we wouldn't have been able to either for a long time. When we got to Tacloban, we just went and bought lots of canned food and rice so that we would have food if the bagyo was really bad again. We waited inside of the sister's apartment for a day and a half before the storm hit. We started the fast on Saturday night. That's really cool that all of you fasted too. I didn't know that. But I do know that it made miracles happen. 

When Ruby was out in the ocean, it had gusts of winds stronger than Yolanda. If it had continued to hit land at that rate, it would have been devastating. Many people were worried that Ruby slowed down, because usually when storms slow down, they have more time to build up more power. But this storm slowed down from a category 5 to just a 4 before it hit land. It was still strong, and my area got the eye of the storm (I still don't know how my area is; there's no cell service there.) but all the missionaries were really far from danger. I thought the roof was going to come off the apartment in Tacloban a few times, and there were floods everywhere, (only about an inch in our apartment though(:) But the storm that they thought was going to devastate the whole mission tilted off into a different direction completely away from the Philippines. I know it's a miracle and I am so blessed that I get to continue my mission for the next month and a half ? (I don't remember how long it exactly is) I was really scared that I was going to have to go home early for awhile there. Thank you to everyone who fasted for our cause. I know that miracles happened because of it. 

In other news, I am back in Ormoc, which is a dream come true. I'm in the same zone as Elder Simmons! He's training a cute little Pinoy elder. Sister Adasme gets to be my companion for 4 days before she goes home! (She stayed a little longer so that she could go home with her sister.) She's going to show Sister Flores and me (Sister Flores is our other cute companion.) around the area so we can figure it out. We're going to be doing a lot of work with the other sisters in the zone, and I'm really excited to give it my all. 

I have to go. I love you all!! Talk to you on Monday. 
Love, Sister Sprouse

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