Man...
as I'm going through all of my pictures to send home I'm realizing we
had a pretty busy/fun last week. I'm going to go through the events
from the most recent to the oldest because that's how the pictures went.
So earlier we had our zone activity. One of the couple missionaries serving here drove us to the activity so we enjoyed some nice air-con in
their car. :) Not all of the elders in our zone attended but most did.
We went to a beautiful place which reminded me of
home... hiking in the mountains. :) We did not however go hiking;
instead we went off of the side of the road and had a big marshmallow
fight. It was absolutely disgusting and so much fun! I loved watching
the couple missionaries spitting
marshmallows out of straws at people. I got hit pretty good a couple of
times... at some point three of the elders decided to gang up on me and
I had spit-covered mallows all over my face. :)
Last night we held a Missionary Fireside in our Branch. The Branch
Presidency did a presentation and then we Sister Missionaries with the
help of the ward missionaries did a role play. We acted out how not to
act/fellowship during church and then acted out the right way as well.
It went surprisingly well for not having very much preparation go into
it. We also had a pretty darn good turn out from our branch,
hallelujah.
Last Thursday night, we had an awesome lesson with a less-active
family. There was this activity we had learned the day before in our
Zone Conference that we decided to test out on this family. The goal of
the activity is to get referrals by encouraging members to share the
gospel with their friends, but it ended up being an amazing object
lesson in inviting less-actives to come to church. The Spirit was
ssoooo strong and everyone was crying by the end... except for me of
course... I still don't cry. (ha!)
Last Thursday morning we did a service project at the home of a recent convert of ours. We mixed concrete and put a floor in his
house. It was a fun service project
even though it was so hot.
Last Wednesday we had our combined Zone Conference with two other zones. I was able to talk to the sisters who are now serving in
my first area in Pateros and get caught up about some of the people in
that area. The Zone Conference was my favorite one I've had thus far.
All of the workshops and speakers were excellent and I loved the
testimony of the Elder who is going home after this transfer.
Phew.... such a busy week!! I'm loving my life here in the Philippines!
The people are so friendly and I feel like each transfer it's easier
to adjust to a new area and you become closer the ward/branch members
faster. It's been fun to get to know some of the couple missionaries
better. We caught a ride with another couple both to and from the Zone
Conference. They're hilarious! Glad to know it's not just us YSA
missionaries who have some sass. :)
I love you all! Hope you have an awesome week and may God bless you!
Love, Sister Dickison
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