Rocky Road, Buffet, & Baptism!

The title says it all! Rocky road, buffet, and a baptism! How much better could this week get? 

Our friend Khiro got baptized on saturday and it was such a happy day! He showed up 30 minutes late to his own baptism, but that's just Filipinos for ya. Everyone runs on Filipino time here. They are the most laid back, do things when they feel like it type of people. It's awesome. It was such a happy day, Khiros the best!

One of our friends, Mary, is the cutest little old lady ever. She has a little fish shop on the side of the road and while she sits and waits for customers, she reads her Book of Mormon! We just barely started teaching her and she already loves the book of Mormon! We teach her at her fish shop and sometimes people will come up and try to buy fish while we are teaching and she gets so annoyed. One woman tried to buy fish during our lesson and Mary goes, “Weigh it yourself we're having a bible study!” The next time we went to teach her, she was sitting with her friend, Lourdine, and when we showed up she said “Lourdine! Bible Study ka!” Which kinda means Lourdine you're gonna bible study! 

Today a member took us to the nicest buffet I've ever seen and I ate so much food. They even had crepes. 

And to top it all off, I found rocky road ice cream last week. So basically it was a pretty awesome week. 

There were lots of hard times as well.. so many of our friends told us they would come to church and never showed up, lots and lots of walking in the heat and pouring rain, and I still can't understand hardly anything. BUT… the joys and miracles that I see every day totally make up for the hard days. I love being a missionary so so much! 


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