Monday, May 17, 2010

My First Week in The Philippines!!!

blog: So it hasn't really been a week yet it's only been five days,but we've had one baptism and another one planned for this week, I know I'm good ... just kidding, the sister before me was a really hard worker and lined them all up. So my new companion is Sis. Haws and she's great, a hard worker! She's from Utah and is really good at the language! I miss my MTC companion though :( We taught so well together. I still have a lot to learn in this language!

It's funny that a year ago I was still in Zambia thinking about how I''m going to miss this and that and how I wasn't going to miss this or that, but I find a lot of it is the same as here; the same smell of over-fried dry fish, deisel fuel, and burning trash. Transport's the same but the people are different. My purpose and view is different and that changes everything.

I love it here and Ii've only been here five days and Ii'm already planning my return trip, even though it's really hot and I'm sweating all the time I prefer it over snow any day! I'm loving the work and I love the people, it's all just great! The other missionaries are great, I love the field, it's awesome and tiring. At the end of the day I literally fall into bed and 'die' till morning and mornings aren't hard to get up for cuz you can hear everyone in the city is getting up and you want to be in it! Plus its warm so you don't have to get your body moving, heck I don't even sleep with covers! I just hop out of bed, work out, take a bath and go to work! Mahal, mahal, mahal!!! (love it, love it, love it)
I haven't had a lot of native food here yet, we cook a lot of it ourselves so I'll have to tell you more next week.
Till next time!
-Sister Stephens
"kapayapaan ingat!" (peace out)
write me! tatiana.stephens@myldsmail.net
shout out to: Carl and Alicia for the awesome paackage, and Derry for the letter !

Monday, May 10, 2010

My address in the Philippines

Sister Tatiana Stephens
Quezon City Mission
POB 13873
Ortegas Center
Pasiq City
1600 Metro-Manila
Philippines