I WANNA GO HOME!!!!! :(

8 April 2014

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Now that I've got your attention, read my entire email. :p

Dear Family and Friends,

How are you all? How's #LDSConf? (Man, I miss using hashtag! I mean, Twitter.) XD

In honor for my family and Philippine-based friends, I'm not gonna spoil anything about General Conference. Nyaha. :D

But I would like to follow-up (yeah, this is in connection with Elder Ballard's talk) all of you about my challenge on my last week's email. Have you smiled to someone? Did you give them a hug? Did you give them a compliment? Well, you don't need to nod while reading this email though. XD

If you did it, that's great! I'm so proud of you. If not yet, hey, I'm gonna give you an invisible tap on your back telling you that you can do it. :)

Some people need you. It might be a small thing to you but for others, it means a lot. :) Do it now. Don't delay. The clock is ticking. ( Yep, Bishop Stevenson's Gen. Con. address.)

Last week's pretty great. Me and Sister Loveland are having fun everyday. We love serving here in Kettering. The ward is so amazing as well as the people that we meet everyday. I love doing missionary work. Btw, I've learned how to say "hello" in few different languages. Bwahaha.
Geoffrey, our investigator, is going to be baptise on the 19th! Yayyyy. :)

I want to share a little miracle that we've witnessed last week. It was around 6:00pm when my companion asked me if where do I think should we go. I told her that we need to go to the library (though I've a clue that it's already closed) and it turned out that it was closed already. Bwaha. But just few steps away from the library, we saw a woman carrying tons of grocery bags. We offered her help and she accepted it. Let's call her E. :)

E is amazing. She's so lovely. While walking to her home, we talked to her about our message and stuff, yeah, BRT and OYM stuff. And we asked if we could come and visit her again to share our unique message to the world, the Restoration. She agreed to meet with us again and until now, she and her daughter are willing to take missionary lessons.
I know that we can take missionary opportunities through serving others.

My email's short today but I promise to write more next week. 

And I will reply to your emails as well. I PROMISE. :D

I love y'all!

~Sister Ordanza

P.S

Now that this email's almost done, I just want to say belated Happy April 1st for my subject line. XD

P.P.S

President Angoy, thank you so much for informing me that Archie's finally home from serving in Chile Rancagua Mission. You made my day. Now, I've enough motivation to work everyday. Hahahaha. Jk! XD

News, news and more news!

31 March 2014

Hello Family and Friends!

I've got news, bad and good one, I guess. lol

The England London Mission's the first mission outside the United States that's allowed to use Facebook as a missionary tool for proselyting. My account is Sister-Lorelei Ordanza. We can use it for an hour everyday. That's the good news, I guess. The bad one? I can't be friends with all of you. It's for mission purposes. Want another bad one? My personal account (Lorelei Ordanza) needs to be deactivated. Yes, little brother, please deactivate it. Another bad one? I'm supposed to send you my MTC pictures as well as my first week pictures but my SD card got a virus, I guess. Can't open it and needs to be formatted. (Wrong grammar ba? Idec. Judge me. Bleeh. :P)

So yeah, no more pictures huh? XD

Anyways, my week's pretty amazing even I got a flu. That happens when your body's adjusting on the weather.

Good part of my week? (insert Taylor Swift's song 22 here XD) My first English birthday. Nyaha. The Smith's family threw me a party. Cake, food and presents. Other members gave me cards and presents as well.

I got my first African food as well. Ohmygoodness but it taste like a Filipino one! Yayyyyy. Also, the Filipina member, remember her? Sister G. cooked rice and adobo for me and Sister Loveland. She's so amazing! :)

(Don't translate this part, Meg. XD) Nung nakaraang araw, may nasalubong kaming mga Pinoy. Mabait naman sila pero mahirap pala iopen yung gospel sa sarili mong kababayan. Sana di lahat tulad nila. Wah.

I'm working on how to SMILE every time for everyone. Not the creepy one though. XD Sometimes kasi, nadadala ko pa rin ang pagka snobbish ko. Sorry po!

Anyways, I challenge all of you to do small things for your family, or your neighbour, or your friend, or your classmate, or anyone that you want to this week. It's either give them a warm hug if they need one, a smile, or anything that you can do for them. The Lord promised us that by small and simple things, great things are brought to pass. (You don't need a badge to do this. ;) )

I love this work so much. The world is in need of help. By doing that little things for our fellowmen, we're making a step doing the Lord's work. I'm grateful that I'm part of His mission, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of men.

I love all of you.

Til next PDay.

♥♥♥,

Sister Ordanza

P.S

Don't try to add me on Facebook. :P

1st Area

24 March 2014


Dear Family and Friends,

I'm here in Kettering Ward, Northampton Stake. :) My companion is Sister Loveland from Idaho. Not from Boise but from Blackfoot. ;)

She's so amazing! Sorry Meg, Joy and Em but I've got a new best friend. :D

My area's like in Puerto Princesa Zone, more specifically in Sta. Monica Branch, like in Sicsican and Irawan. Yep, I'm in a countryside! Yes, probinsya ang peg. Whooop! :)

Btw, you can send me letters/packages on our flat, this is the address:

Sister Lorelei Ordanza

#39 Union Street

Kettering, Northamptonshire

England NN16 8JR

United Kingdom

The members are so amazing. They feed us every night. Yes Mom, like in The Errand of Angels movie. Woah. So true. Don't worry, we don't have a car so we walk almost 10 hours everyday and I'll burn everything. Hopefully. :D

Guess what'll be the BEST birthday present so far? Yeah, we'll have a baptism on the 29th, my birthday! Woot wooooot!!!

My first week's really awesome. My body hurts. ( Kung may Alaxan lang, nilaklak ko na rin lahat, Sister Marcon.) Haha. And I froze, I mean, the weather's not that great for me. Ha.

Last Wednesday, on our way here in Kettering after our meeting in London, while on the train, we randomly sit with a couple nearby. The guy's an Englishman and the girl's a Filipina! It's so amazing. We've taught them the whole ride and they even agreed to meet with us again and she said she'll cook Filipino food for us. Yayyy. :D

Our work's doing great. I'm so excited to work everyday. We're working really really hard but we're still having fun. :) I love every minute of it.

There's also a Filipina on the ward! Yesssssss! Wohoooo!

Anyways, I would like to share this inspiring message from President Hinckley:

Don't be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. Accentuate the positive. Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with a great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.

I hope you guys are doing great as well! Send me letters. (Thirsty missionary.) :D

Love love love.

~Sister Ordanza

Off to the battle field!!!!!

19 March 2014

Dear Family and Friends,

We're allowed to email just for five minutes only so this will be really a short email.

I'm sorry!

Two week's finally over here in the MTC. I'm off to London Mission!

I'm just gonna tell you about our street contacting in Piccadilly, Manchester last week. It was the scariest thing that ever happened in my whole life. I don't know what and how to speak with the people.

But yeah, this is the Lord's work and as we fully rely on Him, He will bless us.

You might be facing lots of trials right  now but don't try to avoid it. Slow down. Move with steadfastness with Christ and He will direct your ways.

Mataba na ako! Joke lang. Dalawang beses pa lang ako nakakain ng kanin dito! :(

I've realised that I look awkward and horrible on the pictures that I've taken so, I'm not gonna  send my pictures. :p jk

On Monday will be my regular PDay though!

I love you all.

Much love,

Sister Ordanza

P.S

Tell my Mama to email me. :(

P.P.S

Please ask Emily Rodriguez and @QuirkyMormon if they have their mission calls already. Sorry for bad spelling and grammar! Can't type like this just for five minutes.

Til next week!

1st WEEK: CHECK!

12 March 2014

Dear Family and Friends,

I'm doing great here! Except for the fact that I can't speak English that well. Kind of frustrating sometimes especially when me and my companion are teaching our investigators. So, almost all of us are from the different parts of the world. Like, Chile, South Africa, Germany, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Spain, United States, Denmark, Hungary, Belgium, Dem. Rep. of Congo, France and Zimbabwe.

Anyways, I thought I'm gonna be here for six weeks because of the language but it turned out that I'll be here for two weeks. Dude, TWO WEEKS?!!!!!!!!! I'll be in the field on March 19th.

My nose bleeds a lot due to the weather I guess. (Yung moment na pati sipon mo dugo na!) Funny, but true.

I've tons of pictures in here. LIKE TONS. But the saddest part, aside from my creepy face, is that I don't have an SD card reader/USB. Ugh.

I promise to buy one when I'm in London though! I PROMISE!!!!!

I'm learning lots of things here. I love it.

(Medyo advantage po ang pag-attend ng missionary prep at Insti classes dahil saulo ko na po agad ang Your Purpose at D&C 4. :))

Tomorrow, we'll be on the streets downtown in Manchester to find investigators. I'm kind of excited and scared. But we'll see that! I'll tell that to you on my next email. :)

For sisters who are preparing to serve, has a desire or just thinking of it, here's one for you from Elder Holland;

First of all, I want you to be proud you are a woman. I want you to feel the reality of what that means, to know who you truly are. You are literally a spirit daughter of heavenly parents with a divine nature and an eternal destiny.

Be a woman of Christ. Cherish you esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. This Church needs you.I say to you what the Prophet Joseph Smith said more than 150 years ago: "If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates."

The Book of Mormon is blue.

The Church is true.

I love all of you.

Til next week!

~Sister Ordanza

S/O:

Congrats to Elder Gooding for getting his mission call to Scotland/Ireland Mission! :)

P.S

Tell Mary Ross that I got her letter/invitation for me! I'm excited!

SEND ME LETTERS ON THE FIELD, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love all of you!

Oh hey, it's raining...

7 March 2014

Hello Friends and Family,

This is just a quick email to tell you that I safely arrived here in Manchester! Yes, as expected, I just experienced my first rainfall here. Haha. And  it's 10 degrees Celsius! Woah!

My companion's Sister Schmidt, she's from Leipzig Germany. She speaks Deutsch VERY WELL. ;) We belong to the Nephi District and we're the only sisters in there, we got six elders btw.

We're seventeen at the MTC right now and we are all from fifteen different countries! Isn't it amazing?!

I'll send pictures this coming PDay. I promise!

Mahal ko kayo!

-Sister Ordanza

P.S

I don't have Ana's email address. Sorry!