Kamusta Po kayo sa lingo na ito,
The Bravo family are still doing great we we're pleased
 to see brother
Jay the father received the priesthood this Sunday and his
 kids
participated in the Primary Activity. I was the on the spot
 pianist
for the primary activity and I have strengthened my
testimony that the
lord provides for his servants in their hour of need as
I was able to
play on the spot more than half of a primary program that
 was formed
as it was preformed. I was also really impressed with and
 proud of the
kids that even though everything they did was different
from the
practice that had been run they still managed to read the
 big words or
lyrics written out for them in both English and Tagalog they
 sang I am
a child of god, I love to see the temple, I feel my saviours
 love, if
the saviour stood beside me, and I hope they call me on a
mission
which made me laugh and smile as I thought of myself maybe
 not so long
ago singing the same song and now hearing little Filipino
 kids
scream at the top of their lungs " Sana AKo a Makapag Mission!
" Two of
which were kids of our Recent convert Bravo family. We also
 had a
pleasant surprise this Sunday Sister Quimpo the mother of our
 best two
branch missionary sisters came to church and brought their
neighbour
who we also teach who I thought would NEVER come to church
 but they
both came and really seemed to enjoy themselves. Sister Sandra
 our
progressing investigator is really on fire, has a personal
goal to
give us 5 referrals before her baptism on Dec 25 Christmas
 day! And
even though Sister Balili managed to catch my small virus
 we still
got a lot of great work done this week. I love the lords
work and I
feel blessed to be out here doing it every day!
With love, Sa pagmamahal  at Pagingat sa Lahat,
Sister Quinn

Kamusta dito sa Camiling AKO,
No transfers. So the Lord has blessed me with another
 6 weeks in an
area I LOVE. Sometimes the lord really blesses us
 beyond what we ever
expected I have found. As a bit of a challenge to
myself Its funny I
had said that I wondered If i could find someone
 be the first
missionary to ever teach them and then baptized
that person. I also
had a goal to with hope baptized at least one whole
 family. Mom , Dad,
kids and all. The Bravo family baptism this last
Saturday fulfilled
both. Please check out the pictures on my photo
bucket of this
beautiful family. They had an amazing baptism
 this Saturday the
father even shed tears in his testimony and the
spirit was really felt
by all. We are blessed to hopefully also have
 another two baptisms
coming up on Christmas day. One of these Is a sister
 Sandra, who this
week has undergone a lot of trials with her mother
having yet another
of many strokes and being close to her last days
 on this earth, but
this sweet sister I have seen through trials grow
 only closer to the
lord and she is truly an inspiration to me.
Our other hopefully
baptism is a great YW sister Fable Castro who
attended the YW
activity this Saturday as well as the baptism of
the bravo family so
we are very excited with her progress and all the
 great fellow shippers
in our ward in YW who have stepped out to welcome
 her. It really makes
a difference. Its hard for a missionary to be sick
 and this week I was
just thankful it was on Thursday that I feel ill
for the whole day
and not on Saturday for the baptism . I was also
 blessed to be asleep
for most of the day but in the waking hours as a
missionary you just
ache for your investigators and want to be out their
 teaching them
rather than sick in bed.I am great full for the lord
 my saviour Jesus
Christ who is my strength. I know that this is his work.
Sa pangalin ni Jesu Cristo. Sya nawa.
Sister Quinn

Maligayan Fiesta Ng Patay,

Happy festival of the dead their may not be a Halloween in the
Philippines but that does not mean you cannot commercialized
all saints day into the same thing. Last night as my companion and
it went past the grave yard their were vendors selling everything
from Halloween masks and candy to slurpie shakes and candles
and flowers for the graves of their loved ones. The tradition is
tonight Nov 1 they will sleep over at the grave yard and prayer
for the souls of their dead ancestors to make it into heave.
Its funny we taught a lesson about baptisms for the dead this
week to an investigator and she said that sound to her like a much
better idea than just sitting on graves and praying I kind of
wanted to laugh but did not of course! The bravo family was were
the first people at church this week. Sister Emily, Brother Jay
and their children were all dressed up and ready to go and we
are so proud of sister who has stopped working on Sundays
because we know it is hard for her since that is their only way
of income is to sell every day. They need to do this just to make
ends meet here but as we taught the 10 commandments last
night our branch president who worked with us and helped
teach the lesson challenged sister Emily and brother jay not
to work on Sunday and that they would have blessings from
doing so. Our branch president is pretty much the coolest ever
by the way! Not much other news for the week. I LOVE being
a missionary its just getting better and better and the closer it
gets to Christmas and here it feels much closer because they start
early . the more I just don't want it to be over with quite yet!
I know that this is the lords work and I just feel blessed to be
out here doing it. I love you all and miss you always!

Ingat sa Lahat,

Sister QUinn

Bagyo Juan,

The Typhoon was called John or Juan and it was a big one but it
only got to level two in our area. Its the funniest thing I would
not be wrong out to compare it with a snow day. for the following reason

1. Children were off school and their parents did for the most part
not go into work

2. Mostly while the storm went people stayed inside but after it....

3. Their was Much picture taking people gathered in the street
children laughing people playing and many pictures of hey look
how high the water is we're taken by those few who had cameras,
we live in a rich area so a few people their have cameras

4. After kids were tired of playing out in the flood and the rain they
ran home to their moms who I saw receive them back with warm arms.
They even had boots and rain coats like we would have snow gear
and their moms gave them food warm drinks because for Filipinos
when it rains even though its like 80 degrees still outside its cold
for them

5. Random people who would never speak to one another we're out
in the streets talking just like when a big snow storm hits and this
more than anything was the bulk of our work for the day ,
meeting new people who we're all so impressed with the fact that
we we're still out walking trying to share the gospel with people.
We just told them our message is THAT important, Bagyo ( Typhoon) or no Bagyo we have a job to teach others the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

We actually did get to the house of one of our investigators after
walking down one street for 45 minuets. A trip which normally
would have taken maybe 20 minuets of slow walking to get to their
house, they we're so grateful that we'd come by to check on them
they we're in one of the worst affected areas, but their house is
on stilts as many of the houses are here. You will see in the
picture of me holding a book of Mormon standing in nearly
waist high water that this area was very flooded. Make sure you
check out my Photobucket. I have an account at Photobucket.com
if you did not know all you need to do to view it is to go to the
site and sing in under the name sisterashtonquinn the password
is the same and you can look at all of my pictures just please
don't delete them or mess with them, their is also video on the
site and so you will see just how strong the force of the water was
as you watch my super hero companion trudge through it to make
it down the street! In other news this week I was worried
that our Bravo family would not make it to church.
We had an amazing turn around this last week
with the father of this family. Brother Jay as of two
weeks ago he was not present at our lessons and
we knew he went out drinking every so often.
But his unexpected miraculous show up to
church last week started a turn around that
continues to grow strong and stronger in force.
We committed him the very next day (last Monday)
to living the word of wisdom and challenged him
to baptism saying that if he was ready and
continued to live the word of wisdom and go to
church every week that he could be baptized
along with his whole family. We saw this week
just how committed this father has now become
and for me it is a small miracle of the lord, one
of the many I have seen him work in my mission.
Yesterday at church I was worried they would
not make it they we're very late and Just as I
was about to give up hope that they would not
come they showed up. After the meeting the
mother (sister Emily) told me they had almost
not come because she was embarrassed of
being late but she said the father insisted that
they go even if they were late. This in and of
itself really shows me how far he has come and
he is now sitting with his children waiting for us to
teach them every night. I am a blessed missionary
and I know it! What more is their to say! I love
you all you are in my prayers day and night.

With Love,

Kasama lahat ang pagmamahal ko,

Sister Quinn