Pamilya! Wow...what a week! I have too much to say in so little time. I cant believe that the Philippine flooding made church news! That is awesome! My area is okay. I always get a bad feeling inside when it rains, i think our our investigators houses. The rain is so hard and will break their homes. Pero, the Lord protects us. I forgot to tell you about a funny experience last week. We had zone meeting in Cabuyoa. Some how i always find myself getting in trouble with the authorities. Haha. So, my zone leader gave me a hammer and a screw driver. Apparently it is one of our members here in Los Banos. So I put it in my bag. After our meetings we always go out to eat together in the mall. So they have security at each of the doors. She looks in my bag and pulls out the hammer. Haha..that doesnt look very good...They dont know what to do with me, so they call up the head of security. This probably looks bad, having the missionaries talking with security. They said they would have to confiscate it and they would have to take me to the office. Thankfully my district leader helped me, i had no idea what they were saying...He told them what happened, they took my license and told us we would have to take the fire exit to leave after we ate. It was so funny. This week my kasama and I got 60 OYMS!! So close to our goal! We have the goal to find the lost sheep here in Los banos. I am determined to find them. And we had a competition with our district leader. Whoever got the most oyms had to buy the other ice cream...I don't like to lose so that gave me alot of motivation. :) I have been wanting to try the purple ice cream here! Our member help us and give up a whole day to help with missionary work. They have such a love for bringing others unto Christ. Except our ward dosent have a lot of unity yet. There are no meetings to correlate....we have to work on that. We were punted by our investigators this week! They always say, "next time na lang" or they hide from us. Haha Philippinos are too shy to tell someone no in person so they hide from us. Pero, we had 1 investigator show up at church! Sister Agdon! Masaya ako! She even said that she would come back next week! None of our other investigators have yet, pero, I have faith in them. Mom, They have the biggest avocado's here! You would love them! They are masarap! It was Marys bday yesterday. THe catholicals have a huge celebration for her. They carry huge gave beds with lights on them witha statue of her. During a lessons, my kasama asked the little boy, who would you like to pray? He said "mama mary" and pointed at me. Haha apparently I also look like Mary. Because I have a big nose. Haha. They have her picture everywhere here posted outside their houses. Tagalog is still difficult, i am trying to use it as much as possible. I almost said that Jesus killed the people on accident, instead of the people killed Jesus. Good thing i have a good kasama. :) I am constantly being humbled. I hope that I can become worthy of this great calling! I love being a missionary! I know that this is the true restored church on the earth that holds the keys of God. I am forever grateful to wear the name of Jesus Christ on my shoulder. He is on my shoulder and in y heart. He guides me and protects me. I love Him and hope to be like Him someday. Love, Your defender of the faith, Sister Reed