Kumusta pamilya!

Thank you for sending your love! It helps so much in the Field as the days seem never ending. however, the weeks FLY by! I cant believe that it is pday again! Whooo! Today is one of my roommates bday so we are going to have a little party for her! And the exciting news is that I get my travel plans next Friday!! I am so excited to get out into the Field! I am ready to go and get'um! :).

Last Sunday was exciting! We all prepare talks sa Tagalog and the bishop will randomly call a sister and an Elder to speak. We finish singing the Himno, and our bishop calls my name. We will be hearing from sister reed today....My mouth drops open and i was so surprised! not even expecting it at all! my Tagalog isn't as good as the older missionaries here, pero, i was glad i prepared a talk. i talked for about 5 min in sa Tagalog. I spoke on the Pagbabayad-sala ni Jesucristo. Which is the atonement. The talk went well, i could feel the spirit flowing thoughts and words into my mouth. It was a humbling experience, i still have so much to learn and grow. The bishop said that he had someone else planned, but the spirit wishpered during sacrament that it needed to be changed to mine. Magandan. beautiful.

My pabarito/ favorite song to kanta  is Nearer my God to Thee. The Tagalog translation is even more beautiful. It means a coming or "nearing" unto my God possessive. That we posses our God by coming near unto Him. Also,  the plan of salvation is translated into Plano ng kaligtasan. kaligtasan means three different things. Salvation, safety, and security. This means that this is also the plan of safety and the plan of security. This plan secures us to God. every living soul is secure because of our savior. We are secure in Jesucristo.

On Thurs i witnessed a simple miracle of our Saviors love. I was having really bad back pain and it was hurting pretty bad. On the way to gym i said, by some miracle, jared (One of my dance trainers that fixs me, who also works at the mtc gym) would be at the outside feild to align my lumbar spine back in place. When we got to gym, he WAS ThERE! A tender mercy from my Heavenly Father, that he really does care about every aspect of our life. I know that he is there for us and cares for us.

I have been so blessed with good kasamas! I am with Sister Burntham and Sister keith and Sister brewer! We do splits together all the time! I always run and exercise with sister keith so we have have 2 good run workouts a day. We all laugh and make jokes together, pero, we also are very focused on learning our language and help lift each other up. It is easy to get down on yourself, but having the gift of good kasamas has made this experience 100 times better! I love these sisters so much and know that we will be forever friends. We love to sing and harmonize together. the spirit is always so strong when we kanta.

One of our Elders was on the verge of going home. i shared with him the scripture phil 4:13. we can do all things in the lord who strengthens me. Simple. Pero, so powerful! the spirit was so strong and brought me to tear as i was testifying of our saviors love for him. the spirit always directs my thoughts and everything i should say. i am learning to better rely on the spirit. it is a power tool that can make our lives better.

One of the Elder was speaking tagalog and saying what he was grateful for, he said Joseph smith and sister reed. haha, one of the elders wa like wow, sister reeds name was in the same sentence as Joseph smith! That means she is pretty important! It was really sweet. Our distriko is amazing!

Ingat po!! Take care! Mahal Kita! Love you all

Sister Reed