My dearest family (and friends who are loyal readers of my beloved blog),
Wow.
I have survived 6 weeks here. This is so great. So first, I LOVE MY NEW
COMPANION!!! Now don't get me wrong, I love Sister Gumayao to infinity
and beyond as well! I just feel that I have grown so much this last week
than I have my whole mission. Leading the area....after 6 weeks....and
we haven't gotten lost yet! Sister Brand is awesome. She is 5'11,
beautiful, and smart. This is her last transfer and then she will return
to the Land Bountiful. We also have a couple of common friends. One of
which is Josh Stapley. So Katherine or Laura if you are reading this,
you need to go find him (he might be hiding). I just wish she could stay
with me for 6 more weeks! When we were at transfer meeting, President
Schmutz came up to us and said, "This companionship is just too perfect.
People won't be able to handle it!" Haha! I have learned so much from
Sister Brand! I feel like 100000 more times confident with her here. She
is super outgoing and it's so much easier for me to talk with people
because she has set such a good example for me. She is also super
helpful with the language because she can explain the grammar and such.
The branch has accepted her so quickly because she is so kind and her
Visaya is WOW.
I have grown a lot. Before I kind of just hid behind my Filippina
companion and I guess I didn't know how much I was capable of. Now the
branch is forced to talk with me because I am the familiar face and I
feel much more included and my Visaya has improved so much.
We have an investigator who right now is refusing to pray to know if
the Church is true. He has been listening to the discussions for 6
months and it has been good to have Sister Brand here because she is not
afraid of directly addressing his questions about the gospel. Anyway we
go there 3 times a week, he and his family feed us, he goes to church
every Sunday, he reads the Book of Mormon so honestly I have no idea
what is goin on. But we are going to reteach the Restoration and
strengthen his testimony about Jesus Christ. I hope that you are all
praying. It is seriously the only way we can know truths from Heavenly
Father. If it wasn't for prayer I wouldn't be here right now. I have
prayed more times in the last 6 weeks than I probably have my whole life
combined. I am praying SO much. On the trisikal, on the bus, while we
are walking, you name it. I am always praying. I have such a strong
testimony that if we will pray the Lord will help us through any of our
trials. I am evidence of this!
We are trying to locate more Less Actives which is pretty hard
seeing that people don't have addresses here. We get told the general
area where they live and we just wander around asking people if they
know them. I am loving this. I love bringing people back into the
gospel. To see that light in their eyes. It's amazing.
It finally rained yesterday. IT IS SOOOOOOOOO HOT here. But I am still so thankful I did not get sent to Russia. Haha.
Anyway life here is great. Thanks for your prayers, I know they have given me so much more strength.
Just so you know, I'll be emailing about this time from now on...so
yeah....it's time that y'all stop complaining that I am emailing to
early...haha
I love you all so much!!! It sounds like things are
going well. Continue to endure to the end. If you stop that is when you
will fall away.
The Church is true!!! Stay awesome
Sister Trayner
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