Said goodbye to Sister Lua this week. I miss her.
Met my new kid this week. She's great. :) Meet Sister Claudia Falcon from Peru. Yup, Peru, wasn't expecting that one. She is from Peru but moved to California with her dad 7 years ago so she is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and is working on Tagalog.
Big test for me, this one is. 2 foreigners with me as the trainer. Whoo. It's cool to see how much my Tagalog has improved though. We've made it together a week already so my Tagalog can't be that bad right? ha who knows. But yeah, that's whats going on.
She is 24 years old and has such a love for the gospel, it is amazing! Her love for Jesus Christ and his gospel radiates in everything she does. She is a great example to me. We are getting along really well and just doing our best to help others come unto Christ. I can feel this new, fantastic energy coming from our companionship. I know as we continue to rely on Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father and follow the promptings of the spirit in all that we do, we will see tremendous miracles in our work here.
Funny thing, since she is Hispanic, she fits right in with the dark skin, brown-eyed appearance of the Filipino people, so the people naturally try to talk to her first instead of me...well she doesn't understand them so I am the one who responds or translates for her which then totally takes the people off guard and it is hilarious. every. time. I don't know if that made sense. But I can only imagine how weird it is for a white American to be translating in Tagalog for someone they thought was Filipino.Yeah thats all.
Helaman 4:12-15
Really hit me this week. We can do nothing if left to our own strength only. We must repent, put aside our pride and then we will be blessed.
Love you all. Take care!
Mahal ko po kayo!
-Sister Roderick
P.S. got my first email today about me going home....what on earth. its sneaking up on me! AH! run away!!!
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