Kumusta Po Kayo,
Every week I learn something new. This week my companion
has taught me and amazing lesson of Endurance. Even at
the end of a long hot seemingly worthless day where we
have very little lessons and more than one trial. She
is positive " No effort is wasted" she says. And really
I know it's true. I thought that perhaps somethings
things I did without much success were a waste but Sister
Michelle and her progress are proof that is wrong. She
came to church this week all on her own! I've posted a
picture, you'll notice the skirt she's wearing used to
belong to yours truly but she really could not afford
one and I know she felt uncomfortable without a palda.
Our service project on Thursday for Nanny Querezma was
wonderful. She is a very sweet old nanny , nearly 90
years old siya. She has been taking care for her
Apo (Grand kids) Genelle ( 1 year old) and Mary Ann ( 2)
and I honestly don't know how she's doing it. We came
by to help her out as much we could by doing all the
laundry. Which was no small task. Her water is pump out
of the ground only and everything is washed by hand!
Grabi! I've got a video that I'll try to upload either
this week or next. I really felt like we gave really
service to her and it was great! Then on Saturday we
did a Home and Visting teaching activity with the ward
were we went to visit less active members. We were on
splits and at first I felt totally out of it without my
companion as back up, but one was was able to give a
great message on the spot about faith to the Toranco
Family. Alma 32:28. The experiment of faith does work
try it and use it. Remember how you felt that first time
you prayed to know of the truth! If you hold onto that
god can truly do miracles in your life and impart to
you knew knowledge knowing you are willing to listen.
Mahal Ko Kayo!
Ingat sa Lahat,
Sister Quinn

Kumusta Po Kayo Ang Pamiliya at Kaibigan Ko!
This week I've noticed The whitie is no more. I have the
most hilarious strap tan from my tracting shoes which
I'm certain will be permanate by the time i get home.
Also my hair is mostly blond now at least in the front.
My new secular adventure for the week was learning to
text sa tagalog. Yes we do have a mobile phone! It's
really more of a hindrance most of the times than a
blessing and I have to always remember to turn it off
for lessons! but its nice to be able to text bishop
which is who' I've been texting, we are only allowed
to text our leaders and other missionaries not members
or investigators. It's really cool sa tagalog though
and I've learned some of their short cuts like Ksta
For Kumusta ( which just means hello or how are you).
 Another first this week is we found and started working
with a ward missionary. I didn't know we even had one but
we stumbled across sister daisy and she said oh ya I'm set
apart I'm your ward missionary! even though she is sort
of semi active she worked ALL day with us Saturday and
she is really great! Also I've started to notice that
most of the people we teach are related. Not just by
chance though because i swear everyone here is related
and they all live next door to their relatives. Like
this one family we are teaching after we finished
their lesson we decided to tract 2 or 3 houses down
the road and they turned out to be cousins of the family
we we're teaching but they did not know that their cousins
 lived so close to them. And My big spiritual
realization for the week would have to be my new found
 knowledge that sometimes God uses us to do miracles
even when it is really inconvenient. For example this
week we woke up at the crack of dawn and climbed down
into one of our poorest least safe neighborhoods to pick
 up sister Michelle and help her get to church. I didn't
 want to do it , especially because it meant walking all
the way from her house to the church since she's poor and
 we are not supposed to pay to transport investigators,
but She has been investigating since October and this is
 the first time she's agreed to go to church , so we did
 it and she came and she loved it! I hope next week she
 will be able to return on her own! But until then I'm
holding on to all the little  miracles that happen here
 almost every day!
I love you all, miss you !
Ingat sa lahat,
Sister Quinn

Kumusta Po Kayo Pamiliya at Mga Kaibigan,
This week was a not all that bad but still I am calling
it the poopy week, most literally because I just keep
on stepping in poops. Yesterday it was Caribou which is
a huge one of course ( If you needed to know that) but
mainly i felt most of the week as if the soles of my
shoes had gone to the dogs! eewww I know, I'm over it
now! My new companion Is anything but poopy though!
I love her! She's fantastic. I was so worried I'd get
a hard follow up trainer because my trainer had been
so nice but Sister Panilago is really easy to get
along with. She's also very bold in lessons strait and
to the point which is great because I know it will really
help some of our investigators to progress! I'm really
excited for what she can add to the work and just
generally relieved that she is a totally normal and
nice person! It's a bit harder now in the house because
of the transfer everyone is now Filipino except for me
where as before their had been another white girl, and
they don't actually all speak Tagalog as their native
dialect so sometimes in the house I hear anything
between 1 and 3 different languages some of which is
English or well taglish really but the go so fast!
I don't even catch it. I've really progressed in my own
Tagalog because of this though words cannot say how
much more I know now that I knew just a week ago! I've
been leading the area , the planning, and the teaching
and while it is hard and every day when I lay my head
down on the pillow I collapse strait away its also
rewarding. I know that I'm doing the lords work and
he's pleased! Who could ask for anything more! Just a
little side note here. I'm interested to see who's been
reading this blog? What you're all thinking, please feel
free to post stuff on here and hopefully my lovely
mother can sort out how to pass it along to me!
I love you all and miss you too!
Ingat! Para sa Tunay,
Sister Quinn
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