Holey Shoes

Hello! How's everybody doing?

This has been a kind of crazy week. I'll sum up the things that happened and some things I learned in bullet points.

1.My old companion sister Vi had to go to the MRC and they didnt think she would make it back so the Apes drove her to our apartment so i could say goodbye(i owe them bigtime because they are pretty kind to us). But then she did get cleared to come back and they brought her by for me to say hi again!

2. The apes called us randomly to say we were getting a new companion and would be a trisome

3. We were yelled at and almost run over by an angry trycee driver (he was cussing at us in tagalog daw)

4. Two of the sassy elders i am friends with from daraga came over to deliver supplies for our house and when they asked my companion where the fire alarm was she said they had taken it down because it went off when she curled her hair and was "annoying". (dont worry mom they got us a new one..)

5. I found out that our new companion sister Buban was getting another new companion who is sister Deguzman who if you don't remember was my first housemate and stl in my mission! She went home to help her family and came back to finish her mission. she is awesome! 

6.We had probably the worst and most brutal rejection of my whole mission this week. ALL DAY EVERY DAY. This is a hard job sometimes but it's still worth it.

7. Sometimes people(even other missionaries) will hate you for doing whats right but at least you know you are doing right in the Lord's eyes.

8. It's really hard to always be the Christlike example in a bad situation

9. Sometimes it's hard to love people like Jesus would when they lie straight to your face. But you should still do it anyways.

10.We had a really great Family History program in legazpi on saturday and i got to go back and see everyone and have sister snyder tell me all about my old area and it was so great!

11. Some elders in my district were emergency transferred and its sad:(

12. My shoes have holes again and the mud and water gets in now and it's super gross and there are no sizes here for me in ligao so it's a test of endurance now haha

12. There is one Recent Convert we have whose husband has never really listened to missionaries and he isnt super interested because everytime we invite him he just blows us off. But my mission has taught me the importance of diligence and never giving up on anyone so everytime we go there we still invite him to listen. Anyways, one night we had literally been punted ALL DAY and walked about 3 hours straight and we were just dead tired so we decided to visit this family and honestly I was just thinking how they would probably let us in the door and we could get some water but then once we were in the door I asked the little boy to invite his daddy again and he did and brother listened to our message for the first time and he accepted a date for baptism! It was such a miracle. And in retrospect, i realized that if we hadnt had so much rejection and had such a hard time that day I probably would not have gone there but the Lord knew he was ready that night so he prepared his missionaries and guided us there. Sometimes the Lord works in mysterious ways but it always is for our best. 

I love you all so much!

Keep building your faith in Christ every single day little by little. I know true joy comes through personally knowing our savior Jesus Christ and he is here for all of us if we just choose to come unto him. How will you come unto him this week?

Mahal Kita,

Sister Turner:)