Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!​!!!!!!!!!!​!!!

Pangalawang Christmas sa Mission! Holy Cow!

We just had our zone Christmas activity. We went caroling in a hospital and it seemed to bring smiles to a lot of people's faces. Sister Harston said she noticed some people crying. Afterward we had a potluck feast and gift exchange and games, and a reallly random talent show. We sisters sang a girls camp song. Sister Biggs has video footage... :) We did some coloring of christmas pictures and a little bit of soccer, too. It's been a good P-day.

We had our zone conference this week, which means we went to the mission home and learned lots. President DeLaMare promised us that people have been prepared, and I feel like with our hope in that promise we've been finding some amazing people. There's Len and August, who I mentioned last week. They're relatives of a recent convert and an investigator that's about to be baptized. They came to church again, and Len received her answer about the Book of Mormon. I loved the way she described it because it goes along with what I just learned a little more about recognizing the spirit this week from my kabahay, Sister Repollo. Mabigat = no/hindi tama. Maluwag at magaan = yes/tama. And when you all translate that it's going to seem really obvious, but it helped me a lot. And it was so cool to hear Len describe it in the same way.

Then we were tracting last week and talked to this one lady who was not very interested at all, but we felt like going back and she gave us two referrals, and we contacted those referrals, and one of them seems so prepared, and we had a great first lesson with her--Mila. She really needed to hear about God's love, and she had a lot of good questions about the differences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from other churches.

We also had kind of a miracle of a member present in some of our lessons. Sister Jonah has always hid from getting callings and from the missionaries, but she worked with us twice this week and was happy to do it. The members that we passed laughed about it because they were so surprised. It was happy.

There's all kinds of miracles happening around Christmas time!! I won't be e-mailing again until the day after Christmas so Maligayang Pasko sa inyo lahat.

Mahal ko kayo,

Sister Cope

1. Kabahay at the mission home. We always seem to match in subtle ways... Purple w/ White/White/Purple w/Black/Black :)

2. Jeepney home! I love Sister Harston!

3. I love Sister Repollo! ... as for Elder Ferrer... I hurt him while we were playing soccer, but it was an accident...

4. I love Sister Biggs, too! Siyempre! MTC companion, and kabahay for 5 transfers (7 months)... She goes home for school in January!!! Ahh! It's so close!

5.  The best gifts in the gift exchange--elephant and leopard hats. Elder Sommers had just stolen the Leopard hat from Elder Aungon, but when Elder Aungon picked out his next gift... it was the elephant hat! We laughed hard.

6.  Stolen again by the winners of the hats!! Elder and Sister Jensen. (They were stolen from them, but they stole them back at the right time.)

7.  We're kids again! This is a great zone :D

8. recycling gift bags from my family's birthday package. salamat po!!

9. puppies!!! at the DeVillina Family <3

10. FOOOOOOOD!

11. Morong Zone is awesome!!!!