Tuesday we went to Legazpi for Mission Leadership Council because of Sister Andrada being the Sister Training Leader here. It was fun. I felt a little weird being there and not being a leader but hey it was all good! Ha.
Wednesday nothing happened, just the usual missionary life of studying and teaching.
Thursday was me and Sister Andradas last weekly planning session together! And in the afternoon we ended up going to the hospital because Sister Pangilinan had been sick for a few days and Sister Guanzon told us to take her. Well, we went to the hospital close by, not knowing it was public and TERRIBLE. Like I've never seen a grosser hospital. It terrified me to ever get sick and need to go to a hospital here. Little did we know...I'll tell you later.
Friday was zone training and it was good. Except I had learned the workshop already at MLC on tuesday. Ha oh well. The zone leaders did great!
Saturday. the BIG day :) First off in the morning we had Missionary Coordination Meeting with the Branch Leaders and Branch Missionaries. We had it at Cumon, the group off the branch here. Their "meeting house" is like a tarp off the side of a members house... They get like 40 people! Anyways after the meeting we had a farewell party for Elder Aldredge who is going home this week. There was SO much food. like SO SO much. It was all good :) They even had ice cream which is rare! It was super hot out though and I started feeling sick but we had a lot to do that day so I tried to ignore it. Then we went to the church in hopes of watching the relief society broadcast. But we ended up having to clean the baptismal font... Oh well! But so then the Besmontes show up :) We get the dressed in white :) And while they are dressing the baptizer shows up, any guesses who? It was President Guanzon, the Mission President! HA. Sister Besmonte requested him, and He did it! So yeah it was an amazing baptism. After they were baptized they each gave a testimony. It made me so happy to see how strong they are. They all felt so clean and different after being baptized. I was so glad for that. I really can't put into words the joy I felt seeing them baptized :) I love this family. So yeah I was still feeling sick after the baptism but we were invited to a birthday party of a branch member and the Besmontes were going as well so we went. Wow. Philippinos know how to party. There was SO SO SO much food. And it was SO good. And So fun. But I just felt so sick. My stomach was in pain. And my head hurt. We finally went back to the apartment and decided to call the Elders over to give me a blessing.
Sunday I woke up still not feeling good but we had to go to church because the Besmontes were being confirmed! It was really special. They are all so happy :) After church I still didn't feel good and Sister Guanzon (we had called her) told us to go to the hospital. I started feeling even sicker at the thought of going to the hospital because of the experience on thursday with S. Pangilinan. But we found a private "nicer" hospital close by and went there. It wasn't as bad but still not great... Yeah so that was an experience. We figured out what was wrong and all. But trying to explain to a doctor what is not feeling good when you can't speak their language very well- kind of just makes you feel worse. Later sunday night we were invited with all the other missionaries and the Besmonte family over to the Branch Presidents house for a small family night and dinner. It was so kind of them and really fun. The Branch here really is so great. Yeah so that was my week.
So training is over. Sister Andrada is the one being transferred I'm staying here and happy with it :) What I have learned from training :) 1. You need to be positive as a missionary 2. The Lord DOES prepare people 3.You cannot get frustrated when people don't progress the way you want them to. Everyone has their agency 4. Missionary life in the Pines is nothing like I expected, but I love it nonetheless. 5. The ONLY way to learn Tagalog is to SPEAK Tagalog. So yeah IT was a good 2 transfers with Sister Andrada and I feel she did a great job at training me. I am excited to continue to learn more next transfer. I hope you all have a great week :)
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