Week 59 (Bacolod)

Maayong hapon!

Because this week is a holiday week, we had a lot of appointments fall through but somehow we were still able to teach some people around all the holiday festivities. They don't celebrate Halloween like we do in America. Here they celebrate Tigkalalag or season of the spirits where they go to the cemetery and place candles and flowers at the graves of their family members. Sometimes they have costumes and parties but not really.

Our Halloween and Nov 1 we had early curfews so we celebrated our own Halloween in the balay (house). We made pancake covered Oreos, deep fried Oreos, and had chocolate ice cream. It was too much sugar than I am now used to. Then Sister Clarke had a brilliant idea to tape a jack o lantern to her head so that's my explanation for the pictures :) It was super fun! And we were glad to have a small party for American style Halloween :P

When we went and taught Jana this week, we were surprised to see her pull out a journal with her notes from what she read in her assignment in the Book of Mormon. She had written it in the back of her child's school notebook so we are super excited to get her her own study journal and give it to her before she gets baptized this month! She's super amazing and she has turned her life around from what it used to be since she started going to church and really studying the words of Christ in the Book of Mormon.

That's all for this week! Thanks for your support!
Love you all!
Sister Bingham












 playing basketball with President Sumagpao in the rain

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