Traveling alone...

Traveling alone...

So yesterday I got on a jeepney at 5:45 a.m. to travel to Quezon City... all by myself. I had to go to a meeting and had special permission, but on the ride there I ran into this one member who thought I was pasaway. On the way home I talked to this one lady who was very strict Roman Catholic, but when I showed her the quadruple scriptures (with the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price), she said, "Wow, completo." And we exchanged numbers and she gave her address and accepted a visit from the missionaries! Sweet!

Sister Roper will be transferring and I will be staying and training a new missionary. We were really hoping I'd be the one to kill her, but instead I am giving birth. That's the terminology we use in the mission for being someone's last companion and being someone's trainer... I'm going to miss her. She's so much fun, and the branch here loves her. But the Lord has more plans and different learning experiences for us.

We had an awesome last week and half together. Saturday we had two service projects. We went to the farm of our branch president and cleaned the pig pens and held piglets!!! And we planted kamoteng kahoy (cassava). The pictures are on Sister Roper's and Sister Biggs' cameras. Then because Sister Roper is a professional hair dresser, we had a "Parlor Day" with the Relief Society where she taught how to cut hair and gave lots of free haircuts. Everyone was really happy.

And some really great lessons with Laarni who will be baptized around Christmas. She's understanding it so well, and she's realized the gospel means change. Her testimony has grown so much because of the changes she's seen in herself.  And then with Chrisper who shared a piece of his testimony about how his baptism didn't feel complete until after his confirmation and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. The ordinances are soooooooooo real!

We also worked with the Jensens on Thursday and shared an article about gospel culture, and Elder Jensen shared the parable of the coyote. It was perfect.

I know that this gospel is also a gospel of happiness. It has the power to make us positive... IF we live it! I read this quote by Einstein that went something like... There are two ways to live. To see everything as miracle or to see nothing as a miracle. We choose to be happy through our perspective, and the gospel can help us change our perspective into an eternal and joyous one.

Mahal ko kayo,

Sister Cope

Pictures of the Week:

1. Bureros Family Home Evening :)

2. Fighting over the apple jacks!!! that the Lagnada family gave to us last week after our awesome family scripture study.

3. Temple tour with Ellen, new convert :)

4. Giant pizza that we ate last P-day with the Elders! "party" size... masarap.

5. With the San Juan Family. Love them to death!

6. Petting piglets at President Gica's farm <3

7. ( scope 008) I love my kambal!

8. ( scope 016) And I love these invesitgators... Ellen's cousin (Faye Ann), Ellen's mom (Nora), and Nora's apo :)

9. ( scope 019) Leading my companion off the steps of the Morong chapel for the last time. Parang engagement picture... Bahaha..

10. (scope 005) The lovely Pinoy CR (comfort room) of our apartment. Angsuwerte ni Sister Roper... maybe she'll be transferred somewhere with a toilet seat! :)