So my birthday was really fun.
Nothing better than doing the Lord's work for those who know not God ^^
Also, Sister Jenkins had the genius idea to build a blanket fort in the
front room. I guess I've been complaining about missing camping too much
haha. It was tons of fun though ^^ We kinda had a shortage of blankets,
but it worked out alright.
Then today for
Pday we went to try and find this cool hike..... never found it, but we
did find a really nice Chinese lady that lives with her Chamorro husband
in the middle of nowhere! Thanks, God, for guiding us there! Then we
went to this abandoned mall called La Fiesta and looked around. It's so
crazy! Mel and Maddy, I feel like you would've loved exploring there!
It's sad to see it all go to waste though. I heard a rumor that Best
Sunshine wants to buy it up (they are the crazy Chinese company that is
building the casino AKA the great and spacious building here on Saipan.
I'll have to get a good picture of it sometime for you all.)
The
only real damper on my birthday was that Tianbao went back to China
today. I don't remember how much I talked about it last week.. So I'll
just give you the summary. So Tianbao's house got broken in to while he
was at church last week. They stole 3000$ and his friends 3 passports
(which he was holding cuz he lent them some money). So he had nothing
left. He tried working with the cops, but there wasn't a whole lot they
could do. I guess robberies are too common here. He got desperate and
ended up deciding to go back to China, because life there would be
better than here. We didn't even get to say goodbye face to face.... But
hopefully we sent him off with enough info he can still go to church.
You can only go to the church in China if you are already a member.
Luckily we have his home address, so we will transfer his records there
so he can go to church. He has our email addresses too, but we didn't
get his =/ Gonna try to connect with him after the mission, make sure he
is doing alright.
This past week we had a
surprise Zone Conference with President and Sister Poston. Normally we
get a day- a weeks notice so we can prepare training..... Elder Ieru
called us at 6:33am to tell us he just got a message from President
saying he was at the Guam Airport. Whoops. We hurried and prepared some
training and got stuff ready. It was a crazy Thursday!! It worked out
well in the end though, haha.
Our A/C is
broken in our car right now. The church flew in a mechanic from Guam
last week to work on all the cars, but he wasn't able to fix it. So
we'll be driving with the windows down for the next month until he comes
back. It's ok: I like driving with the windows down anyway =)
I
can't think of anything else really..... Oh! We did this really cool
service project with Ambi. She has a super adorable daughter named
MiaoMiao! Only one cuter is Kalli =p So adorable. We cleaned up Ambi's
yard. And we cut down Betelnut trees! It was awesome!
That's
all for this week! Love you all so much! I hope you have an excellent
24th of July, and excellent week. Stay safe, have fun, and don't forget
to pray every day to thank Heavenly Father for the many, many, MANY,
blessings we all receive every day from Him.
Lots of love!
Sister Springer
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