With Love From The Philippines: October 2017

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Week 55 - Pictures are worth a thousand words (October 22, 2017)

Hi.

This week was a loooong and crazy week.

Here are some of the highlights:

-I'm the new STL in the main part of the mission

- My comp is Sis Goundar from Fiji (no one here knows where that is lol) and WE ARE THE SAME PERSON

-This is the best apartment ive been in

- I literally cried after MCM here cause it was a whole lot of yelling and arguing over whos wrong and whos right

- We have a cute investigator who lives in Taiwann, but we teach her over the phone from over there cause shes filipino and she doesnt understand english hahaha. the sisters in taiwainn asked if we could translate so thats cool.

Mahal Kita!

Sister Mosher

#feelingimportant

me and my comp tried and failed to take a cute sunday pic - Didn't work out too well.

our cute as heck house

saying sad goodbyes to our RCS

Us teaching our philipino from tawiann investigator

Monday, October 9, 2017

Week 53 "October 8, 2017"

Hey everyone! I have lots of thoughts and so little time!

But we did get to finally watch Conference this weeek, and as always, it was super uplifting and wonderful. Lots of questions were answered for me, and im sure for all of you as well. We also got to watch David Archuleta sing with the MoTab, and I have a crush now. Oh, I also forgot to mention that I totally met and befriended David's cousin a few weeks ago.. He is currently serving in a neighboring mission- sooooo... i never used to believe in destiny, but now im wondering.. hahah no, that was kind of a joke. ;)

Anyway, we had some people lined up for baptism THIS WEEK!!! At the stake baptism, but one of them got offended that we pushed her baptism back because she wouldnt come to church.... so she moved out and now doesnt talk to us. So that was something new. But the other one, Rodney, he's so good. He's 9 years old. It was so funny.

We had to teach him the Law of Chastity for his baptism interview, and we taught according to his needs. But when we asked him "Okay, what is LOC?" (to give background, "Law of chastity" is tagalog is "kalignisan puri" which basically translates to "cleanliness") so his answer was "take a bath, brush your teeth, wear deodorant, use shampoo"

we had to do the whole flace palm thing. hahah but hes ready.

Well, time is running out and I love you all with my whole heart. Take care of yourselves and apply what you learned in Conference!

Week 52 "October 1, 2017"

Hi to everyone I love!

I hope you're all so happy!

I kind of stink at sending pictures lately, so I will send you a tons right now.

Hm, im trying to think of things that happened this week, but there was one thing the stuck out to me the most... We had dinner at this newlywed couple in our ward.. It was nice because the sister had served in San Francisco, so she understands the American things I said. We were all talking, and she stops and just goes, "Sister Mosher. I feel bad for you. You're the only American in a house full of Philippinos... They probably don't get your humor." I just went "YEAH!"

I always crack jokes to my comp, and she'll just look at me until I go, "that was a joke." and she goes, "wait what?" And one of my roomates asked me to share an American joke, and I wouldn't cause I told her she wouldnt get it, and she insisted, so I went:

What do you call a fake noodle?

An impasta!

and I laughed so hard and they just stared...... I went "SEE?" hahha.

Filipinos DONT get sarcasm. Ha ha ha