High of 98 degrees :)

Wow! Already Pday again! The days are flying by..which is weird considering how long they are! This week has been full of miracles, disappointments, and learning experiences. So many people are progressing but it's so hard when they don't come to church!! But than a few people not coming to church, it has been a great week! We are working 3 investigators from the same family towards their baptism goal date of the 29th! They are all so great and willing to learn. The fact that everyone is very humble here makes it easy to teach them! 

I am so thankful for all the tender mercies I find through out each day. It's great seeking them out and really feeling taken care of by our Heavenly Father. 

So we unintentionally went to 2 filipino parties. One was supposed to be a lunch appointment and ended up being a baby's 1 month celebration...they seated us at a spot with a full set of dining supplies ( fork spoon cup etc) and got desert at the end just to find out that we were the only ones seated there who weren't the Godparents of the baby..haha they treat us so great here! and the food is so awesome! The other one was actually for a Nanay who was turning 99! She is adorable and still has a skip in step! 

I love trying to speak tagalog even though i'm not good. The kids i talk to will giggle and correct me, which is great, and ask me to talk more..while they try to reply sa english. It's fun:) This sunday was the primary presentation and it was precious. I loved it. They did it in english..Hymns here are sang sa english as well as a lot of the opening exercises of church meetings. 

The amount of water buffalo and goats here is incredible...i want a water buffalo now. 

 I love teaching families and children. They are so kind when it comes to me messing up and encourage me to keep trying. haha

The other day i helped teach quite a bit with quite a bit more help from my companion. She's really helpful..she's sort of my life line out here! 

Anyway..really wish i could add some photos but i don't have a cord or card reader! sorry! but for all the cold areas...Today's high is 98 degrees...:) some humidity and no wind...enjoy the cold! ;)

Love and miss all of you

-sister norman 

In Angeles!

hey all! So it's so beautiful here! my new area is Guimba! Great people with  alot of love and so humble. most of the houses here are made of bamboo or bricks that they make themselves. Rarely will anyone have AC or Lighting in their house...or bathrooms...yet they are the happiest people i have ever met. Suprisingly there hasn't been like any rain!

This last sunday i had to share my testimony infront of the congregation of the branch.  I really regret not learning how to cook before coming here...i burnt rice...and the pork....and my grilled cheese..

Meep leaving my old home at the mtc was pretty rough...Hot showers now = cold bucket showers  (which feel actually really great at the long of a hot day); AC which now = a fan (most every family has 1 fan per person that they carry and plug in where ever they go around the house) ; One change that was my favorite is my fake investigator now = Real people with real desires to do good!\

I also lost my last companion, but gained a new one! Leaving sister Nuku was really tough PERO my new kasama ko is also really great! She is quite different from Sis Nuku (baby baby). Sister Gerardo, New kasama ko, is 26 native Filipino who is teaching me the ways of serving a mission in the Philippines! I really enjoy being her kasama. She is taking good care of me! I love talking...[attempting to talk...to everyone here! I met one lovely lil old man..or Tatay...his name is Brother Alfredo. he is so kind and humble. he lives in a 3 walled home with a bed made of bamboo and a tarp as a roof. He is so happy...he has had missionaries teach him before but never got baptized.He didn't say yes or no to our invitation for baptism yet pero i know that as he reads the Book of Mormon, the Spirit will testify to him that it is the right thing to do.

It's crazy how much i love these people and i don't even know them. I am super blessed to be part of this great work...even if it does mean bucket showers, bug bites, and burnt food...i love it all the better

I do need to improve with Tagalog pero that will just come with time! .

I don't have much time to think about home but I hope everyone is doing well!

Mailing: for packages and such: LBC

love all of you...and if someone could send me a flash drive, that'd be great...and possiby another sd card for my camera!!! it's going to get full fast!

Sister Kassidy Ariel Norman

Philippines Angeles Mission

F. Tanedo Street

Barangay San Nicolas

Tarlac City, Tarlac 2300

Philippines

Noah came before the flood; I came before the fire

Guess who came for our devotional?!?! Elder and Sister Oaks and Elder and Sister Adern!!! It was amazing! My kasama and I got front row!! so i was approximately 5 ft away from him the whole night. And to begin our Devotional, all 156 missionaries and Alll of the leaders got to shake their hands. It was amazing. I think my teacher Brother Garcia got a good picture of me! I loved the two talks! One was on Christ Like attributes (sister Oaks) and Elder Oaks talked mostly just about our missions and how we are here to establish the church..not just baptize. After the amazing devotional I was assigned to give the prayer!! I gave a prayer infront of our area president and one of the 12! Talk about pressure! I was so nervous! it was probably the most honored and humbled i have felt my whole life!!!

After the devotional, my district got together for like an hour and just talked about what we had learned and my Kasama shared her thoughts then felt prompted to read Her favorite poem: He's Been there Before. She and i have read it together pero this was the first time we read it as a district and man... The spirit was buzzing!

Oo..my pretty water bottle broke... that was a bummer. now i have to use the MTC ones that are really awesome but not pink...i wrote a poem about how it..ready:

Oh lovely pink bottle

how i love you

you purified my water

until you broke in two

you helped me stand out

like none other would

i don't think I could fix you

But i wish that i could

you fell off my bed

up so high

Meow you're in Bottle Heaven

up in the sky

How could you leave me

to fend for myself

now your new spot

will be on the shelf

oh lovely pink pottle

how i'll miss you

Meow that you're gone

My Heart sits in two

Rip bottle  anyway....

I went prosolyting again.... of course it was amazing yet again! I rode in a jeepney and a trike...which is a tiny motorcycle with an itty bitty thing hooked on to it; i sat on the inside with my kasama while about 4 other people pile on the sides on each other's laps. It was quite interesting.. or terrifying...don't really know which.

I met some really amazing people though! I bore my testimony sa Tagalog which was pretty sweet. The lesson i struggle with pero at they end they said they felt and understood everything...thank Heavens for the Holy Ghost eh?Guess who came for our devotional?!?! Elder and Sister Oaks and Elder and Sister Adern!!! It was amazing! My kasama and I got front row!! so i was approximately 5 ft away from him the whole night. And to begin our Devotional, all 156 missionaries and Alll of the leaders got to shake their hands. It was amazing. I think my teacher Brother Garcia got a good picture of me! After the amazing devotional I was assigned to give the prayer!! I gave a prayer infront of our area president and one of the 12! Talk about pressure! I was so nervous! it was probably the most honored and humbled i have felt my whole life!!!

After the devotional, my district got together for like an hour and just talked about what we had learned and my Kasama shared her thoughts then felt prompted to read Her favorite poem: He's Been there Before. She and i have read it together pero this was the first time we read it as a district and man... The spirit was buzzing!

Oo..my pretty water bottle broke... that was a bummer. now i have to use the MTC ones that are really awesome but not pink...

I went prosolyting again.... of course it was amazing yet again! I rode in a jeepney and a trike...which is a tiny motorcycle with an itty bitty thing hooked on to it; i sat on the inside with my kasama while about 4 other people pile on the sides on each other's laps. It was quite interesting.. or terrifying...don't really know which.

I met some really amazing people though! I bore my testimony sa Tagalog which was pretty sweet. The lesson i struggle with pero at they end they said they felt and understood everything...thank Heavens for the Holy Ghost eh?

These photos are from last week's prosolyting!