Kamusta Po Kayo,

Miss ko Po Kayo Lahat! that means I miss you all of course!
I'm not quite sure what to write this week so I thought I would
give a play by play of an afternoon of work as a missionary here
in the Philippines.

10am we go out to work after personal study

-Contact a referral turns out they speak NO Tagalog only the
native dialect of our area ilikano which neither I nor my
companion know anything past hello and a few greetings.

Taught her a lesson any ways in Tagalog which I think she may
have understood

We then went and taught a long time investigator Bernadett
who as a baptismal goal date but we think is hiding some chastity
issues from us so not sure she will make her baptism on time

We are constantly OYMing which is opening your mouth and we
found a new investigator who is the uncle of one of our other
investigators about 30 minuets away

AT noon we return to the house and eat and do our language study

3pm we are out of the door again and back to work

We go to contact a man we talked to in the camera shop on P day
who seemed interested as we approach his house he is sitting on
the porch he waves a go away at us and I know what it means but
my companion continues on he says he has Sore Eyes
( It means pink eye) and throws on a pair of sun glasses as we
get closer but I could tell even from far away that he did not have
sore eyes. I laughed at this under my breath as we walked away
and encourage my companion that we will just keep going

4pm we teach Sister Mary and Princess the cousins of one of our
branch missionaries we are trying to get their mother to listen as
well but she is drinking a lot Mary at age 16 is really the mother
of the whole family

4:45pm we go drop by Sister Quimpo who is the Mother of 6 very
active children ages 24-8 one of whom I am trying to help get
on a mission. Nannay believes the church is true but is still a bit
shy about coming to church and does not like the idea of being
baptized just quite yet, its a long story but we love her!

5pm drop by and say hi to Sister Mary and Brother Sam
investigators but they give us loads of referrals and are great!

5:30 we drop by the branch presidents house to say that we would
like him to come to our FHE on Monday he is not in but we tell
his wife and she says he'll be their as soon as he gets of work
he'll just be a little late.6pm Teach the Bravo family, their
grandmother got bit by a dog
yesterday and when she shows me the bite I can see its turned
black just like mine did and she's taped it up with literally
scotch tape. I tear the tape off and put on my triple anti biotic
cream which I always carry in my first aid kit always in my bag.
Its weird but as a westerner they just assume I am like a
medical doctor and every one looks to me strait away and believes
everything I say about cleaning out wounds and treating diseases,
although sometimes I have trouble with their native beliefs,
they believe that if you shower at night and go to bed with
your hair wet you will get sick and die! ya that's one of the
least crazy ones..

The lesson goes on though and the spirit is felt so strong because
Sister Emily has done her reading assignment she always does,
and She even marks out the verses that she likes in colour!
We love her!

7pm go by to visit a less active family and find out they have just
been attending the other branch for the last 3 months because
they have more friend their they say. I have not quite yet worked
out how to teach a lesson to help people attend their assigned
congregation.

We get back to the house by 8 sometimes 8:30 if we are still
teaching a lesson we plan write in the area book. I shower my
companion of course does not for the above mentioned reason.
We eat our dinner at around 9pm and by quarter to 10 I am
passed out reading the scriptures in Tagalog which never fails
to put me to sleep! I understand them but sometimes my
mind wanders!

Hope you liked hearing a typical day in the life of a missionary
in the Philippines Angeles Mission, here in Camiling.

With Love,

Sister Quinn

Kamusta po Kayo!

A lot is happening here In Camiling and I've only got so much
time to write so I'll maybe type it out in Highlights!

- On Saturday we did a service project at a place called Canding
Falls and I fell into a river. It was kind of funny because the Elders
were like "Sister you're not supposed to swim it says so in the
white hand book!" No worries I am fine I did not drown or anything
but the stuff in my bag is pretty much destroyed only two of which
I was sad about that being my Planner and OH ya my CAMERA!
I still managed to salvage the memory card though SO please
check the pictures I have of the falls out on my Photo Bucket!

- last night we went to the funeral of a less active member which
was very interesting Philippino funerals are very different! The
casket had a light up Jesus with a spinning wheel like the dizzy
spinning wheels you see at carnivals and a Ma Ma Mary to finish
it all off. I was very happy just sitting in the back right up until I
was asked to speak at the Burial service which is this Thursday at
the chapel I will let you know, how that goes, What a story to tell
I will be speaking at a funeral service in a foreign language, I don't
think if you told me a year ago I'd be doing that on my mission I'd
have believed you!

This week I have really seen my companions

devotion to the work despite feeling bad because

of a cold and having a terrible cough to where

she can hardly talk she diligently works on and

I can really see her love for our investigators

and for the work of the lord. She may not feel

a 100% but I know that she is giving it her all

and she does not murmur she is still excited

every day to go out to work and I really admire

that in her.

We have been trying a lot this week to find new

people to teach and have OYMed ( or open our

mouth as we call it here) 16 times this week. I am

always trying my hardest to have faith and

exercises it as we oym. Like they say when you

are going to speak and you feel nervous you

should just imagine every one in the audience

in their underwear. When I am really nervous to

OYM i just imagine them in white baptismal

clothes, hopefully you got that little joke, but in

all seriousness I have found that if from the

moment I meet a new person I think of the all

honest truth that this person right now is a child

of god my brother or sister before I came here

and as I invasion them entering the waters of

baptism I cant help but smile and try my very

best to offer to them the truth I have and the love

I feel of my heavenly father for them. As we are

focusing also more on using the book of Mormon

because of our new mission training. I have

found in my own personal study just the other

day a great verse I'd like to share from

1 Nephi 15:23 ' And I did exhort them with all the

energies of my soul with all the faculties which I

possess that they would give heed to the word

of God" This I feel very much expresses my

prayer for our work and use of the book of

Mormon as missionaries. It is my prayer and

my hope that this is what I am doing every day.

I cannot express the simple joy i felt this week

seeing one of our brand new investigators get

off to such a great start when to our surprise

she had not only read our reading assignment

but had marked out her favourite passages and

shared her favourite verse with us. She said

she is also reading the book to her husband,

who we do not get to teach to often because

he usually is late coming home from work past

our curfew, but he has listened every time he's

been home when we come to visit. I am learning

more to love everyone and I am working every

day to see those we teach as Christ sees them.

I love you all as well of course and miss you lots

Ingat sa lahat,

Sister Quinn

Kamusta po Kayo,
Ano any tinagan mo? that is what is your name in ilikano that
right I have a new dialect I am learning! Here in Camiling I am
very much out in the country side and their dialect here is spoken
by many of the people. Although they ALL speak and understand
Tagalog they tend to use ilikano in more personal settings.
The sacrament prayer is usually said in ilikano and many people
bore their testimony in ilikano yesterday which was tough because
I still only understand about 10 percent of what they are saying.
I'm excited though to be learning a new language again I took some
pictures of the book of Mormon in Tagalog
(Ang Akalat Ni Mormon) and in ilikano ( Ti Libro ni Mormon)
and have uploaded these pictures on my photobucket along with
a lot of other pictures. I am really out in what they call the
Bukid ( rice fields) Dito ( here). We climb through fields of rice with
snakes and frogs and all kinds of things as we go out to our more
remote appointments. I feel like a missionary in the jungle for
the first time! This week I almost jumped for joy in the middle
of playing the sacrament hymn ( I am the new branch pianist the
Branch president has been praying for he says) When our brand
new investigator Sister Emily walked in with her 5 children
one YW age. They have only been taught for a week an all ready
they are coming to church sadly brother had work and did not
come, but I was really surprised that he listened and asked many
questions in our first lesson with them! I have never heard a
male ask so many questions so I am really excited for the
potential of this family. I can really feel when we are with them
that this humble family has been truly prepared and is ready
to accept the gospel.

We are so blessed here in this area to have so many members willing to
work with us and have also been blessed with many referrals from members.
I feel like we've really been doing smart missionary work as our branch
missionaries refer their cousins, other relatives and friends and then we have
gone to the appointment with them to teach the loved on or friend we have
found that we instantly gain the trust of the new investigator and that our
lessons are filled with the spirit of the lord
I love you all and miss you much!
Ingat sa Lahat, ti ya mo ( I love you In ilikano)
Sister Quinn

Kamusta Galing so Camiling Branch One!

I have returned close to my first area I am now in Camiling Tarlac
although here it is very different we are very far away from the
big city. There is not so much as even a mall and the shopping
mart is VERY small! That aside I LOVE my new area.! I have
now been made a Follow up Trainer again, My new companion
Sister Malaga is from Manila area. Although I may be her
Senior Companion she is much more my Senior in age.
She is 28 years although their are a lot of sisters here who are
older one of my previous companions was 30. The people here
are SOOOO friendly even missionaries who've been here for many
transfers say that's the biggest thing they've noticed. We have a
really great small branch here with all the programs of the
church fully functioning. So a relief now that I will not be
teaching the Relief society or the primary for that matter.
The area is much more rural and very quiet it reminds me of
small lake towns out in Texas except instead of the lake their are
huge rice fields, mountains and falls not to far from here we will
hopefully be able to go hiking in the lovely country side on a
p day. The new house that me and 4 other sisters live in is HUGE
it is right next door to the senior couples and it has an oven and
a piano although the piano is basically destroyed many of the
keys do not work but it still works as a practice for church since
I am once again going to be the pianist for sacrament. I am really
excited for the work here. We have all ready found a new whole
family to teach as well as extended baptismal goal dates to some
really great progressing investigators here. When the blessings of
the lord rain on you it pours! For this week that's all I think I've got!

Mahal Na Mahal Ko Kayo!

Sister Quinn