1. I ate Dinuguan. Yeah I know you don't know what that is so I'll explain haha Dinuguan is Pigs blood. Disgusting right?! Nope. It is so so so so good. I literally could eat it everyday. We went to a members house to eat and they told me what it was and I tried it, ate it, and it was amazing. So yeah thats cool.
2. For Service this week we washed beer bottles for an old lady to sell back to the companies and HUGE spiders would crawl out of the bottles and up my arm and on my head and ahhhh I was screaming. It was hilarious and everyone was laughing. The same thing kept happening to me and Sister Vaka soooo the two foreigners freaking out... haha way to represent.
3. We went to Digiboy. Digiboy is a place in our area where there is literally just mountains of garbage are pilled up and people just burn it all. It's so cool, but it smells so disgusting haha it's sick (literally).
4. We shower with a hose outside because our water thing broke.. I have a picture, but pictures won't send this week so you'll just have to wait hahaha but life is hilarious. (be grateful for your showers)
5. I was talking to these two little kids this week and I was asking them their names and one looked like a girl and the other looked like a boy so im just talking to them and the one who looks like a girl says their name is Benny so I was like what... and asked if he was a boy. He says yeah and then I said talaga? and he just pulls down his pants... and thats when i realized he really was a boy... HAHAHA so ya funny story...
6. I had my first baptism this week!! Sister Michelle was baptized and wow she is just the cutest. She is so prepared. After her baptism she actually wanted to work with the missionaries and be a member present so we got to work with her! It was awesome! :)
Anyway I had the most spiritual experience this week. Honestly the people here in Coron are some of the most amazing humble people I've ever met. We went to The Pagayunan family around 7pm so it was already pretty dark. They live in Bacquan baba which is where you have to walk on the wooden things to get to their house okay, so anyway we get to their house and they had a brown out. (it's like a black out, but they call it a brown out idk why) Anyway so there is absolutely no light in their little house. So we just ask if we can reschedule and come back another time, but they were eating so they told us to come in and eat with them (this happens a lot, Philipinos are very hospitable) Anyway so we go in their house and they give us literally the food they are eating.. just like extra crackers and juice. I tried to say no, but they insisted and they are so poor it was just hear breaking. So we are sitting there eating their food and then their extended family members come into their house. They had like candles and stuff so that was good. So i'm sitting there seeing like 20 people in this little house with candle light and flash lights going around. And honestly the family was just loving eachother and laughing and they were just so happy. It really just proves money is not happiness. Not even kind of. This family has like close to nothing and I don't think i've ever seen a happier family than that night when I was sitting in their home watching them. They are the best. I cannot wait for them to get even more happy by accepting the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I literally cannot express my love for the people here in Coron. I love this place with all my heart. I can just feel that this is the place where I should be. I can hardly stand how much I love it here. Yeah there are definitely difficulties, but I know that this is where I am supposed to be. Ahhh I love Coron, I love The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and I love you all. Remember stay happy and be humble.
Mahal Ko Kayo,
Sister Barton
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