September 30

Dear Family and Friends,

Well this has been a really busy week.  We have been sooo busy.  We literally cannot teach all of our investigators and less actives.  Our schedule is so packed.  Which of course is a real blessing.  We did, however, this week finally have sisters to work with us.  And we actually did splits with the relief society sisters so we could teach more appointments.  I was a little nervous about doing splits because I wouldn't have Sister Eracho, but it worked out well and defiantly helped me.  We also had exchanges with our Sister Training Leader on Thursday.  It is always good to go on splits with other missionaries. 

On Saturday we had a great baptism.  He was really excited and it was a neat experience.  Sister Michelle brought her 3 kids too and her kids were excited for their baptism in 2 weeks.

Also last night we had a really cool experience.  So here in Bulan they don't have tricycles, but rather they have pedjacks.  It is a bicycle with a side seat.  But anyway it is a really good opportunity to talk to the bicycle driver.  So last week we were riding a pedjack and talking to the driver and he said that Elders had taught him and his family 10 years ago, but then they moved. He said that we could come back to his house and teach his family.  So yesterday night we were on splits with the relief society and we taught Roger and his family.  It was really cool he says he knows the church and Joseph Smith is a true prophet. I hope that they will continue to progress. 

Well it will be interesting to see what happens with transfer.  We had interviews with Pres. Guanzon last week and I told him that neither Sister Eracho and I want to transfer because we have only been here 6 weeks, hopefully we will get to stay together another transfer! I really don't want to leave this area so have so many progressing investigators and the branch is really progressing.

Of course this being the last p-day of the transfer, we had District activity.  We went to Bulusan Lake.  It was really pretty there was a nice little hike all the way around the lake. 

Well I hope everything goes well for everyone back home!

-Sister Richins