Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to Everyone!!! :)

Wow this week is so full of so many experiences that I don't know if I will be able to write them all but I will sure try!

Well on Tuesday we had our Zone Christmas Conference!!! :) It was pretty fun and it was really spiritual! It made me feel a little bit trunky.. (Homesick) But all was good! I got over it! After they gave us the opportunity to shop for our companion if we knew they weren't getting anything for Christmas! So I went in a little room and got some things for my companion that she opened on Christmas Day and she was so happy!!!!

Wednesday was Christmas Eve and President Clark made a new rule for us to be by 6:00 on Christmas Eve! So we went out to work early that day and then had a Dinner appointment at Jinky's and Her Mom is an AMAZING cook!! She made really yummy shrimp and squash! I loved it so much!!!! We then went home and we really do much! haha my companion went to bed early and I made a Christmas Tree out of Paper because we didn't have one! I then tried making paper snowflakes and they didn't really come out that well. They looked like some aztec thing! but yes at least our house was decorated for Christms!

Christmas morning was alright! haha it just didn't really feel like Christmas though! Which is good, because I think if it would have felt really Homesick if it felt like Christmas!!!

Well Friday I was so scared and nervous to talk to my family  because I was scared I would be homesick or I would lose my focus! But actually I was just fine! and Talking with them was just fun! I miss them a lot but I am perfectly happy here that I don't feel like I want to go home! I just want them to come here and see what I am doing and meet these amazing people!

Saturday was a crazy day! We went to the chapel after our work in the morning to attend the Elders baptism! Who was being baptized, her name is Sister Josephine and she can't walk so they had three people help her in the font! it was a really cool and spiritual experience! After he testimony was so sweet and powerful!

After her Baptism we had our Branch Christmas party and that was so much fun! it was actually a really big deal! They had performances and they had lots of games and so much food!!! 

On Sunday We had a branch meeting and then we were feed by our branch President and his family and counselors! It was a lot of food and it was so yummy! however after we had an appointment with some one and they feed us food and we eat a little bit but then she kept getting mad at us because we would eat! If you don't eat their food and a lot of it.. it will offend them! So we eat so much food! I kept turning to my companion and saying "I don't think I am going to make it" haha it was so bad! our stomaches were hurting so bad and I literally had the biggest food baby ever!

This morning when my companion and I were washing our clothes we were trying to get the water pump to work but it wasn't working for some reason or there is some short of trick to it! So for like 10 minutes my companion is pumping water and I kept telling her "Hindi ko naniniwala" (I don't believe) and she kept saying "maroon" (there is water) haha and then all the sudden the pump just breaks on us! hahaha I was laughing so hard!!!! She was laughing but she kept pumping because she didn't want to give up! HAHAHA in the end there was really no water and we just ended with a broken pump! haha :)

Well I love you all so much! I have no way of sending pictures this week but I will send some next week!! :) I love you all so much!!!!

Oh and I saw Sister Dalley and Elder Syphus and Elder Bundy and Elder Shipley at the Christmas Zone Conference!!! They are all from Saint George!! I actually have a picture but I will send it next week!!! :)

Love, 

Sister Freeman 

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Yay I am so excited to be able to skype home this coming week! :) I am so excited to see your beautiful faces! Oh and Happy Late Birthday to my DAD!! He is now 57 everyone!!! His birthday was on the 19th! So Happy Birthday to the BEST dad is the WORLD!!!! Thank you for everything Dad!! :)

Well This week was kind of Crazy! We had transfers! and Yes I transfered! I finally left my first area! That is so crazy! I miss San Clemente so much! I miss the people and the investigators so much! I was there for about 1/3 of my mission! I just left my first area so yes that was hard! I am so close with the Branch and Yes I really do miss them! But its okay! I am now here in Bongabon Zone and I am in Bon Kalikid Branch! We are literally out in the middle of no where and we are the only Sisters in the Whole Zone! We live in this cute little house and its just us two and we are both foreigners! So that is crazy! haha goodluck to us!! :) I guess the Lord knows what he is doing! 

Well the Branch here is really nice and they were so welcoming! :) We even worked with this one girl, Jinky and she is preparing to go on a mission! She is so cute and is really awesome! Well I have only been here for 4 days but I have already seen miracles here in the area! We found a Man in his early 60's and we taught him! He came to Church on Sunday and then we were able to teach his whole family! We extended Baptismal Goal date for all of them!! That was seriously a Miracle right there! Yes we had to drop a few of Our Investigators that were not progressing so that was sad, but maybe it's just not their time right now! But We have found 7 new investigators this week! and we have extended Baptism to 6 people in just these last 4 days! It was so awesome! We have really been working hard! and then on Sunday we actually went on Splits which is crazy because I don't know the area yet and I really can't lead! So we went on splits for about 2 hours and the members are so awesome and just really helped us in the work and they knew right were to go. and we were blessed on Sunday with a Lunch and Dinner appointment! YES! I have been starving! That was the best meals I have had it feels like! hahah it was so yummy!!! :)

Well the Language is amazing! I understand so much and I am able to speak a lot more! I still am far from perfect, but it's so much better you could say! :) so lets see if I can speak to my family in straight English on Christmas! Because my companion and I only talk in Tagalog to each other! sometimes English! But mostly Tagalog because we have to!!!!!!!!!!!! Because we are foreigners!! 

Well I am excited for this week! Later tonight we have family Home evening with a less active family and then Tomorrow we have our Christmas Zone Conference! I am SOOOOO excited for that! We are singing "Angels we have heard on high" as a zone! and my companion and I have solos because we are the only girls!! and I really don't know how to sing so that is bad! haha but goodluck to us! haha and then the next day we are doing a service project for a lady that can't walk but she is getting baptized this saturday! So she can't clean her home and her kids are to busy to clean! So we are going to help them out on Christmas eve morning and help clean up her house and everything!!! She is the sweetest lady in the whole world! I am so excited! and then it's Christmas eve night and the Christmas day! and i the luckiest person in the world because this Christmas I get to share the true gift of Christmas to everyone.. THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHIRST!!!!! :) Yes this is going to be the best Christmas ever! Family I hope you don't miss me to much because I am doing just great here in the Philippines Angeles Mission!!!!!!!!! :) I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!

Actually at our dinner appointment on Sunday night, when we went there the Mom wasn't done cooking so I offered to help! I Started helping her cook but then I started talking to the Grandpa and I ended up teaching him the Whole Restoration! and by the time I was done talking with him she was done cooking! haha I guess I just am really a missionary! hahaha :)

Well I Love you all and I hope this year each and everyone of you atleast find one person you can share the true gift of christmas with!!! :)

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

Love, Sister Freeman