Dear Family and Friends,

                Well I am sad to say that I did get transferred! I’m sad because I loved the members and the investigators and my companion and everything!!! But I am also happy to say that I have been transferred to Muñoz 1B; Guimba Zone! So I went back to Cab Side! And Guess who my companion is?.... Sister Shipley!!!! She is from Saint George! She lives by Sunset Elementary!!!! Our houses are maybe 10 minute walk away from each other!!! J and it’s crazy that we became companions!!! But I am also so excited! J

                Well Conference was absolutely amazing this weekend!!!! I loved all of the talks! Especially the talk about “Ponderizing”. I decided to apply what he said because of what it says in Preach My Gospel: “Those who listen to and follow the counsel of living prophets and apostles will not go astray. The teachings of living prophets provide and anchor of eternal truth in a world of shifting values and help us avoid misery and sorrow. The confusion and strife of the world will not overwhelm us, and we can enjoy the assurance of being in harmony with God’s will.” So I found a scripture last night that I will ponder for the whole week! The Scripture I picked was 2 Nephi 31:13!! “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, I know that if ye shall follow the Son, with no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent…” I only picked the first half of the verse! Because this verse helps me remember who I’m following and what I need to be! It also helps me to remember my purpose as a missionary and that I need to fulfill with all my heart and serve him until the very end without turning back!

                Well I learned so much more from Conference but I can’t share it all right now because there is not enough time! But I am so grateful for our Living Prophet, Thomas S. Monson, and for the apostles that have been called to lead us! I know that Joseph Smith restored to true gospel through the Prophet Joseph Smith and that we would not be here right now without it!

Well I love you all so much! And I am so grateful for your support and love for me! J Take care always!

Love,

Sister Freeman

Dear Family and Friends,

            This week we have been so blessed! Sister Vangie and Brother Bong were finally baptized!!! J and when they shared their testimonies at their baptism… it was so amzing to see how strong their testimony was and how much they have grown! And Then on Sunday Sister Vangie got up and bore her testimony to everyone. She was so scared but she said that she just felt a strong feeling telling her to go up there! And She just gave such a beautiful testimony that I know that the whole ward needed to hear! They are really converted to the gospel. And what was so great is that her daughter came to church with them and in Sister Vangie’s testimony she said that she hopes her children and grandchildren will also be baptized! So we will try and teach her daughter this coming week! J

Well Sister Salde and I are still doing great and we are really working hard! We are really building the trust with the members right now! I am so grateful to be in this area and serve these wonderful people here! Transfer week is this week and I don’t want to transfer! Because if I transfer I am only in one area for 4 weeks! But I guess if that is what the Lord wants for me, I will!!

Well yesterday at church, even though our two brand new recent converts are not off of the ISM count, we were blessed to have 2 brand new investigators come to church! Our pipeline is still flowing and we have made a lot of time for finding this next week! I know that numbers are not what we are going for… but the K.I.’s really do help give us have a goal and motive to fulfill our purpose and become who God wants us to be! J

Well I don’t have much to write this time! But I do have a lot of pictures to send! J

Thank you so much everyone for your love and support! J Ingat po kayo lagi!

Love,

Sister Freeman

Dear Family and Friends,

This was such a great week! Especially because of the interview with Sister Vangie and Brother Bong yesterday! They were so happy to know that they could finally be baptized! They have been waiting a long time for this day! We will have their baptism on Wednesday @ 5:00! I am so excited!! After their interview Sister Vangie couldn’t help but cry tears of joy!!! J it was the sweetest moment ever!!! J

Well Sister Salde and I are doing great! We really have a great time together! I wouldn’t mind staying with her for my last transfer! J I really don’t want to transfer but we will see next week! Ah!

Well this week I had exchanges with Sister Larga! She was very nervous… but as soon as she realized that exchanges were a great experience I think she was okay! She really impressed me with her inspired questions, because usually new missionaries struggle with that! But she was absolutely great! I really enjoyed my exchanges with her and I know that she is going to be a great missionary! She is still adjusting to missionary life! But I made sure to ask if she and Sister Ram were reading “adjusting to missionary life” and they were! I told her to just keep reading it! I know that she is in great hands with Sister Ram!

I also had exchanges with Sister Benosa! Sister Benosa is a really hard worker! She is struggling with opening her mouth and testifying sometimes! But she really is stretching herself as she talks to everyone! I really hope that she will apply that to her area as well! She is a great missionary! I enjoyed exchanges with her! We actually have a lot in common and became great friends because of the one day that we had together! J Maybe I will see her in California one day because that is where her real mission is and she will be going there in just a few weeks! J

This last Monday we taught Brother Marck Mangino! And when we went to his house… his sister and mom were willing to listen as well. Marck and Lizel both accepted the BGD! But the mom wasn’t ready yet! So we will keep going back and teaching them and keep praying her their mom… I know one day her heart will soften! Her husband died about 3 years ago and she has just been working so hard for her children!!! But I know that God has a perfect timing for everyone! J

Well I am grateful to be a missionary and to preach the gospel to these wonderful people!!! I love them so much!!!!!! I never want to leave!!!!

Mahal ko kayo! J Ingat!

Love,

Sister Freeman

Dear Family and Friends!

This week has been really good! I had a great opportunity to go on exchanges with Sister Nuku! She is from New Zealand! She is so kind and loving to everyone around her! And she is SOOOO humble! I really admire her for that! She is a hard worker and willing to apply everything that she learns! I really had a great time with her!

This last week we even had our Zone Conference! I really learned a lot! I learned how the Holy Ghost can better work with us as missionaries and with our investigators! As we have applied what we learned… we have seen a big difference in our teaching skills and also in our investigators and less active members! We have seen the Holy Ghost touch their hearts! This has been a really great week! We even met a Pastor of another church and he was so nice and willing to let us teach him! We weren’t able to teach him the first time because he was gone…. But we taught his wife and she was really interested and she accepted the baptismal goal date! We still haven’t taught him yet because he is always busy! But he is so nice and really willing to be taught! So we will see how this goes! He is still really young! He is maybe only 30! So we will go back to him and his wife this week!

Well this last weekend was our Stake Conference! Elder Manuel Agustin from the quorum of the seventy came and spoke in the Adult session and on the Sunday session! He has so bold! I really love him! His talks were amazing! He had a power point and showed a little video! I was so impressed with the talks and his topics! He talked about Sunday Delight! I really learned so much also about the Atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ! And I also learned about fasting! He showed us in scientific ways about fasting and that it is scientifically proved that we can only go 24 hours of fasting before we lose energy! So our body will give us energy during our fasting but only for 24 hours! So I know that God really does know our bodies because he created us and so we can all fast for the appropriate time that was given to us! And just how sacred fasting is and we should always have a purpose with our fast!

Well on the Sunday session! Our mission President talked! And His whole talk was centered on my experience a few weeks ago! We I was really sick and I was really scared because of how my body was reacting to the medicine! So he shared that story with the whole stake and how I was helped by so many people and how fast they reacted to help me in that scary situation! And He applied it to how we have so many Less Active members that are in need of help and that how we need to react right away and help them in every way that we can! Well it was a really good talk! Even though my head was down and my face was going red because I was so embarrassed! Haha but it’s okay because most of them didn’t understand because it was all in English! But for the ones that did understand were asking if I was okay! But lets just say that the whole Stake now knows my name! haha

Well we are so excited because this week we will have a baptism! Sister Rinalin Cainta!!!! And also we will have a CHURCH TOUR!!! We have been planning this Church Tour for way over a month! And it is finally happening this Saturday at 6:30pm! We have been giving out invitations to everyone we talk to and also the members are giving invitations to their friends and neighbors! We are so excited because we take them on a tour of the church and then at the end we will all meet in the cultural hall and we will show the restoration video and hand out pamphlets to the people that come! So this should be a great way to receive referrals and find new investigators! So next week I will let you know how everything went!

Well I love you all so much! I am so grateful to be a full-time missionary!!!!! This is the best Job in the whole world!! I never want to come home! J

Mahal na mahal ko kayo! Ingat po kayo lagi!!!

Love,

Sister Freeman

Hello Everyone!

So this week was kind of crazy! But don’t worry we survived! :)

Well This week was really great at first! I don’t know what it was but I completely changed my diet to more healthier food! And I also started doing things that just really helped my to be 100% focused on the work! We were seriously working so hard even though I was loosing my voice and had a cough! I was still going strong! Sometimes it was hard speaking to people... But I could do it because I had the Lord’s strength with me! Our work was just going up and our companionship was doing better and I just felt happier even though I was sick! 

Okay now this is the crazy part of our week! Well my ka-bahay (house mate), Sister Havea, got really sick! She was having fevers on and off and then she was just physically so weak to do anything! And then she started getting rashes over her whole body and she was just so so so sick! So her companion took her to the hospital in Tarlac which is about an hour travel! They got tests done and when she got her results... She was positive for Dengue Fever!!!! We were seriously so worried for her! So Sister Clark called us and said that I have to take her to Tarlac the next day and we will stay there for 3-5 days until she gets better! I had to be the one to go because I was sick also and because we had to leave our companions so that they could continue working in our areas! We just stayed at the STL’s house in Tarlac so that we were close to the hospital because she had to go everyday to take a CBC for her blood to make sure her blood platelets weren’t going to low. It was scary because the first test she was 176 and then the next day she dropped to 165 and then the next day she dropped to 148 and then to 145 and then it was a miracle because she finally went back up today! :) She is now at 185!!!! WOOHOOO!!! We can go back to our areas now! We will go back tomorrow morning! We are so excited! President and Sister Clark will take us back, because we have our Zone Interviews tomorrow! :) oh and I also got checked up when we were at the doctors and I am now on lots of drugs! But don’t worry!! The work still goes on!!! Oh and they think that my sickness was an allergic reaction at first... So they gave me some peels at first and I was taking them for about a week... But that wasn’t it! Because I was still sick... So they finally gave me new medicine today! So hopefully it will be gone soon! Don’t forget to pray for us! Haha! 

Well I just want to share one experience where we got lost here in Tarlac! Even though Sister Havea was sick we still had to go take this language assessment Test for something... I don’t know why! So we took a jeepney to SM and then we took the test and then we left! Well on our way out... We crossed this bridge over the high way that had a lot of stairs so that we could get to the other side to get on a jeepney... But then we were got there... We realized we were on the wrong side and we didn’t even needed to cross... So we went all the way back and it was hard on Sister Havea because she gets tired very easy because of the Dengue Fever! But as we were climb the stairs again... There was a little kid sitting there and he said, “ Sisters pagod naman po kayo” (Sisters you seem tired)! Haha and then when we finally got there and got on the right jeepney... We really had no idea where we were going! We just knew the name of the place and we were hoping the driver would start... But he didn’t! Haha so after being on there for a while... I was like Sister Havea,I think we have gone to far! So we asked the driver and he said we already passed it! So we got off and crossed the highway and we were just standing there in the dark and in the rain waiting for a jeepney to come and we had no idea where we were! We finally got on a jeepney and started going back... I asked a nice lady on the Jeepney where this place was... She said it was really far! We had gone so far past the place we were suppose to go! When we finally got back... We just crashed on the beds because we just wore our selves out! Haha but it was a good experience to learn how to get to the Sisters house!

Well This is about all I have to share for this week! Maybe next week will be better! Haha

Mahal na mahal ko kayo! Ingat po kayo lagi! :)

Love,

Sister Freeman

p.s. I will send pictures next week

Dear Friends and Family!

This last Monday was so much fun because we had Family Home Evening at Roy and Ann Augustine! And the Tolentino family came as well. It was so much fun! I gave the lesson and then after Sam and Shimae gave the games! Which you will see in the pictures the outcome from the game! Haha they really got us good!

On Tuesday we had MLC at the mission home! But while we were traveling there in the morning our jeepney was stuck in traffic! We sat there for like 20 minutes but we were not moving! We were freaking out because we had to be to the Mission office on time so that we could take another jeepney with the other missionaries to the Mission home! Well we finally made a decision to walk until we could find a tricycle! Well as we were walking, it started raining!!! Haha we had no umbrella! So we were running across this huge bridge in the rain trying to make it on time! As we were running, I was singing happy birthday to Sister Pantaleon! Haha I think she had a great birthday! Well by the time we had ran so far and we were soaking wet… we finally found a tricycle and we literally just made it on time! But when we got to the mission home… we were freezing because the air con. Was on high! But it was okay because we had the best lunch ever there! We had Hamburgers!! Wow! It’s been a while sense I have had a hamburger like that (home made)! Sobrang masarap! And then for dessert we had fruit pizza! Yes I was in Heaven! Haha J

On Wednesday we had our Zone Training and it went really great! I think our whole zone really felt the spirit and we all know now what it takes to make our goal as a mission and to succeed in the work of salvation! Well that same day when we went out to work, we just randomly knocked (Tao po) at this one house! A lady answered it and she let us in! After talking to her for a minute we started sharing with her! When we started… she started to cry and said that earlier she had received a text that messengers from God are going to visit her or something like that… and then we came… and she took that as her answer that everything we taught was true! She accepted a baptismal goal date!! Now I know that God really does prepare his children to receive the gospel even if it is in mysterious ways!

On Friday I went on exchanges with Sister Lawrence! She is just the batch after me! She is seriously so awesome! I really had a great day with her! She teaches very well and has a lot of potential! I am grateful for my exchanges with her! She is from New Zealand and knows some of the people that I know from the MTC!!! J

On Saturday! Tatay Francis Tolentino finally got baptized!!!!! His whole family was at the baptism! It was such a happy day for Tatay Francis! He has been an investigator for probably more than 10 years! And now he has finally accepted the truth of the gospel into his life! J

Well earlier today! We had a Zone Activity!! We just all meet at the chapel and played games as a zone and some of the members as well. We had so much fun!!! I have not laughed so hard in a long time! Grabe baliw ang zone ko pero, astig sila! The only bad part was that one Elder... Elder Ditan really hurt his leg! He like fell or something! I am not really sure because I didn’t see it! But we got him a wrap and ice! So hopefully he is better to go back to work tomorrow!

Well I love you all so much! Thank you for everything! Ingat po kayo lagi! Mahal ko kayo!

Love,

Sister Freeman

Wow this week was just amazing!!! I learned to much!!!! and we have seen so many blessings and miracles happening in our area!

Well I'll start out with Tuesday! We went to the mission home in Tarlac for MLC (Mission Leaders Council).. and it was a special meeting because Elder Bowen from the quorum of the seventy was there! He started out the meeting with saying "I'm going to be very blunt and bold today Elders and Sisters.. I hope you don't get offended but if you do.. it's not me.. it's the Spirit." WOW! Yeah!! he really has the Spirit with him when he teaches! He was so bold but we learned so much! One thing that stood out to me was a story he talked to us about from the bible. The story about the Fig Tree! When Christ and his disciples were hungry and they saw a fig tree and it had leaves on it! which meant it had fruit because fig trees always produce fruit before its leaves! but when Jesus and his disciples got closer to the tree, they came to found that there was no fruit! So Christ cursed the tree so no one will eat of it. Well Elder Bowen gave that as an example to us.. We have been give this calling and we hold this position and we have this name tag (Our leaves). But where are our fruits? Our fruits come from our example and our obedience and us actually living what we say we live! Because that tree was a hypocrite! and So if we go preaching the gospel but we are not actually living the gospel.. we are being a hypocrite..  and if we are teaching obedience.. but we are actually disobedient... we are a hypocrite !!!! So everyone be careful that we are living what we preach!!!!

 

*In the Bible.. (Mark 11) the fig tree... and the Bible Dictionary.. Fig Tree.

On Wednesday we had exchanges with the Sisters in Camiling 2. I was with Sister Tacon in their area! It was weird going to Camiling because it was like coming home because that was my first zone and I had been there for 6 months! so that was kind of fun to go back! Well Sister Tacon is so crazy in a good way!!! She is so much fun and we had a great time! She is kind of a newer missionary so she is still progress towards Real Growth.. well I guess we all are actually! But she is a hardworker and she loves being a missionary! But when we worked in their area we found a new family for them to teach! That was seriously a miracle!!! and I think the Sisters in that area will be blessed to be able to baptize a family now! :) and we even taught one of their less active families and we taught one of the sons that they had never taught before. He is a member but maybe he has just made wrong decisions in his life. But he was so will to go to church and he said he wants to work with the missionaries to see if he would want to serve a full time mission. and right after the lesson he took out the earing that was in his ear! :) So that was a great experience with Sister Tacon!

On Thursday we had our mission tour!!! So we traveled again to Tarlac! lots and lots of traveling this week! but it was all worth it! The mission tour was With.. of course Elder Bowen and his wife and of course our mission president and his wife! Well There is so much I can share.. but I will just share a little bit!

Well first with Sister Bowen! She gave us an assignment.. and she asked us to write a paper. But it has to be about an unknown civilization... and about their gold and money and how they use it... and about their farming and their wars! and we have to have all the time periods and dates. and we have to write 9 pages a day for 60-65 days! and we are not allowed to go back and erase.. but it has to be perfect with no errors!.... She then told us that is is impossible for us to do it!!! She said there is no way will could!!!! But Joseph Smith is no ordinary man! He is a prophet of God who translated the book of Mormon through the power of God!!! Yes I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God!

From Elder Bowen.. I now understand the Priesthood power and how it works for everyone depending to our personal righteousness. I even now understand the Abrahamic Covenant! :) I fill like I have gain a greater knowledge of the gospel now! :)

Well our area is really progressing and we are doing really great with the work here!!!!! :) I love being a missionary!!!

oh and we were super blessed yesterday at church! Because I talked in sacrament and then Sister Pantaleon taught the Gospel Principles class.. and then We both taught the Relief Society class! haha yeah we have lots of blessings now! but we are now tired of talking! haha 

Well I just want to wish a Happy Father's day to the best dad in the whole world!! Thank you dad for everything! Love you!

Love,

Sister Freeman