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