Kumusta Po Kayo,
Just for all to know the blog posts may be getting shorter and
shorter and might even have a week without because I now have
to split this time and use some of my internet hours! for filling
out school applications in London I can hardly believe the time is
flying by that quickly and before I know it I will be back in my
beloved UK! It will be hard to leave behind my just as much
beloved Filipinos though. These people are just so loving!
We've got a Family home evening with the Cabanyog family later
on tonight and to me that's just as exciting as a night out on the
Town in the west end any day! A lesson learned this week is that
the power of prayer can truly do miracles. One of our
Investigators Sister Raynaline was in the hospital earlier on
this week and as we went to visit her I felt almost helpless,
knowing that she would not ask for a priesthood blessing,
not that I as a sister missionary could give her one. We asked
if we could pray for her. Tears literally spilled down my face
as I prayed for this sweet sister and felt the comfort of the Lord
bear testimony that I as his servant was acceptable and that I
could help her! She came home from the hospital the very next
day and she is now back at home resting with her young baby
son. I am beyond amazed with the power of the lord to work
through such a small thing as me! I have found a scripture
though that at least explains how such a thing as this could
happen it is in Doctrine and Covenants section 84 verse 88
and it says " And whoso ^areceiveth you, there I will be also,
for I will go ^bbefore your face. I will be on your right hand and
on your left, and my ^cSpirit shall be in your hearts, and
mine ^dangels round about you, to bear you up." I know that
this scripture is true. I have felt the power of the lord in this
work and I know that as long as I am on his errand I can do
miracles!
Know that I love you all and that you are in my prayers I miss
you too!
Kasama Ang Pagmamahalan Ko!

Kamusta Po Kayo Nagyon Lingo! Translation:

How are you all this week?!

I have had another great week here in Cabanatuan City.

This week I have really seen my sweet companion humble

herself down, and have a really desire to learn from me.

I have loved the great feeling of encouraging her and building

her up, as I help her with our lesson plans for teaching, with

compiling a good list of scriptures ( A must for any missionary!)

So that she can let the word of God and the spirit of God to do the

teaching for her. It really is the best way and I have been amazed

in looking at myself through her eyes and seeing the change that

has occurred in me since arriving here in the Philippines. I’ve

learned so much not just from my own sacrifices and experiences

but from the sacrifices I have seen others make as well. Many of

my investigators I can still remember the day back in my first

Area ( TARLAC) that Sister Michelle learned the meaning of

Sacrifice. We had been trying to teach it to her for the last week

and she just kind of seemed to be giving us text book answers

but not really getting it. Then on Sunday after having walked by

herself with her young child a good 30 minutes to the church

along the hot smoking highway. She arrived at the church and

asked me “ Sister Quinn is this what Sacrifice is?!” I can still

remember the amazing feeling that passed through me as I

explained to here that “ YES! Sister Michelle this is exactly what

Sacrifice is!” I have also seen an amazing sacrifice this week as

one of our investigators Sister Rosita paid Tithing to the bishop.

She has not yet even become a member of the church and despite

her humble circumstances ( they live in a one room brick shack ,

with no electricity or running water inside their one room) She

made the sacrifice to pay an honest tithe. It is people like this

that have taught me lessons I will eternally be grateful for!

In terms of the weather if any are wondering the Bagio’s

( Hurricane’s) come and go every other day or so. They pass

through and its just like LOADS of rain and flooding but

nothing really crazy. The one this week was called Baguio

Domingo which is funny because that is the name of our bishop.

They do them alphabetically here just like Tornado’s in Texas

(sister Quinn has been away so long she has forgotten we do not

name our tornado's but we do name our hurricanes just like they

do there) so the next one was Ester I think. I don't where the

names comefrom, maybe saints or other things from the bible?

I would like to finish this week by thanking you all for your prayer

in behalf of my health the last week or so I have felt GREAT!

Back to normal and I know that it is through the help and

strength of the Lord that I am still here in his service. I love

you all and miss you of course!

Ingat sa Lahat Lagi , Translation take care of yourselves always,

Sister Quinn

Kumusta Po Kayo Any Pamilya Ko at mga Kaibigan,
This week at Zone Conference we we're excited to here about
a new addition to Preach My Gospel, with new foundational
principles as part of a new curriculum going out to all the MTC's
of the world within the next year. We also saw a set of new
Preach my Gospel DVD's that were really great! Look forward
to those Elder Quinn and any other missionaries reading this
who might not have seen them yet. As a result we have been
challenged to give out more Baptismal goal dates, to people
even in our first meeting with them. It is kind of scary because
you worry as a missionary that maybe they just don't know
enough yet, but we have seen already and are surprised that so
many accept the challenge. It has really strenghtened my faith
in the Lord and in the power of our message. This week we
have found a great new family " the Benloan family" who are
less active members, its part of my new goal to teach to part
member families in the idea that we as the missionaries owe
it to these members to teach to their whole family and help
them towards the ultimate goal of going to the temple and
being sealed to their families. I am really excited because the
Sister was just so grateful that we we're their and that we
wanted to teach to her and her husband again, she says they've
really missed the missionaries. We plan to have a Family Home
evening with our bishop present at their home next week! This
family lives close to our long time investigators the Cabanyog's
who this week celebrated the birth of their third child! A sweet
little boy ( baby Ram Jones Cabanyog) He was born Tuesday
morning and when we showed up later on that evening around
5 for our regular appointment Sister Cabanyog INSISTED that
we still come in and see the new baby and leave them with a
short message. I really Love her to death their whole family is
just so great! This is all to report from me mainly for this
week in our work, we have interviews on Wednesday and I
always look forward to that! I'd love to hear from all of you
of course If you post here in this blog hopefully my mother
will see it and send it along to me! I'd love to hear any
questions you have and what you are all up to! I miss you
loads but I know that this work is true!
With Love,
At lahat Ng ang Aking Pagibig!
Si Sister Quinn

Kumusta Po Kayo,
A wedding and a Baptism! That is what is on the table for the
next few weeks. We have an investigator Sister Rosita, who is
living in with a member Brother Danny, and they have now
finally drawn up papers for their marriage, so we will be Lucky
enough to get to go to both a wedding and a Baptism soon the
Goal date we have for this is Aug14, our only lack is someone to
marry them. We think though that maybe the mission president
himself President Puzey may be available and willing to preform
the ceremony and Our bishop perhaps do the baptism. This
week Sister Laureo and I have been SUPER diligent despite a
day off of work we still made our goals for the week. I was
thinking just last night about how many lessons perhaps will I
share or have I already shared in my mission. I totaled up the
lessons from my last transfer and It was around 200 lessons then
I thought if you multiply that by 13 transfers that is about 2,500
lessons taught in the whole of my mission! That's a lot and while
I know I can't do that all in one day I am amazed by the Lords
hand in his work as we find new people each day to teach.

Almost as an unplanned theme for this week

we have taught a lot about prophets specifically

our living prophet Thomas S. Monson, my

testimony as been strenghtened as I have studied

along side our investigators and shared with

them the truth of his words, his testimony of our

saviour and the eternal atonement he

accomplished for us all. I will share with you

president we had more than one investigator

as us this week " has the prophet seen god,

does he REALLY talk to him?" In answering

this question. I have been filled with the spirit

and had my own testimony strengthened as

I read with our investigators President Monson's

bold testimony of our saviour, of his true reality

and helped them to realize for themselves that

If a man with such a bold testimony of the reality

of God had not experienced deity for himself he

could not say with such surety words such as "

As one of His special witnesses on earth today, this

glorious Easter Sunday, I declare that this is true, in

His sacred name even the name of Jesus Christ,

our Savior"

these might seem like just simple words, just

the ending of a talk but for me, my companion

and our investigators this week, that one line

has testified by the spirit of the Lord that God

speaks to his living servants today, that THIS

is his true church on the earth, that Thomas S.

Monson is his prophet in these the latter days!

With that as My testimony I shall leave you all until next week.
We have Zone conference tomorrow and I am excited for all that
we will learn and all that I can take from the conference, they
are a blessing each time!
Mahal na Mahal Ko kayo, PS. THEIR are lots of NEW pictures on
the PHOTO BUCKET, Check them out!
Sister Quinn