Hey, it's Mother's Day!!!!!!!!!!

12 May 2014
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I can't believe I bawled in front of my family over Skype yesterday. Ewwness! XD

Dear Family and Friends,

This past week's been pretty amazing! I'm learning so much on serving on the Lord's mission. I am developing so much love for every people that I meet and talk everyday, especially our investigators. Jane-charlotte's is really an amazing gal. I can't believe how much she have changed from the first moment that we taught her. She'll be baptise next week! Kevin, is doing great as well. He'll be baptise on June as well as with Luka! I love Ada so much. She's such a Mom to us. She feeds us a lot, she's from St. Vincent and she's a sweetie. Okay, most of our investigators are not British. They're from Macedonia, Jamaica, Poland, Zimbabwe and India. And most of them have no background about God at all! Missionary work is the BESTest thing evah!

We have met new investigators this week! Sister Loveland and I are faithful to extend baptismal dates with them. Man, it's crazy because we have an amazing relationship with the ward and the Ward Mission Plan here in Kettering's really superb!

I'm reminded of President Monson's words, "Our duty, in addition to saving ourselves is to guide others to the celestial kingdom of God."

Being on a mission has taught me a lot of things in preparation for my future.

So yeah, how are y'all?! We (the Elders and us plus Jotham went to Chinese buffet today. lol

I freaked out! Hahaha. Anyways, that's all for this week. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward this Thursday because we'll have interviews with our mission president, President Jordan. Can't wait! :)

I love all of you.

Til next week!

~Sister Ordanza

P.S

Okay. I freaked out when I read the news on Facebook the other day that Elder Ballard has now a twitter account! asdfghjkl!!!!!!

Good Marninnnnn'!

6 May 2014
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*in a Scottish accent*

Man, we live in a village full of Scottish people and I am loving it. And no, unfortunately I still have my American accent. K fine bye. :p

Dear Family and Friends,

This past week has been crazy but a miracle week.

I went to London last Tuesday to have exchanges with the STL's. (Oh I forgot to tell you that last April 15th, I got to led our area, Kettering, with Sister Butler.) This time, I worked with Sister Jensen. Oh btw, the 'fellow missionaries' thingy in my blog, I met most of them now. K. My email's being disorganised.

Anyways, yeah I did have fun at London! Man, missionary work's really amazing there. You get to talk to tons of people in few minutes. That's so crazy.

So, Sister Loveland's been ill for almost the whole week. But the miracle was we still reached our goal even if we stayed at the flat most of the days and our investigators who have baptismal dates still attended church yesterday. :)

My email will be so short this week but you are all in my prayers everyday because you are all precious to me.

In conclusion, I want to share a quote from President Uchtdorf:

"You are not alone on this journey. Your Heavenly Father knows you. Even when no one else hears you, He hears you. When you rejoice in righteousness, He rejoices with you. When you are beset with trial, He grieves with you.

Heavenly Father's interest in you does not depend on how rich or beautiful or healthy or smart you are. He sees you as not the world sees you; He sees who you really are. He looks on your heart. He loves you because you are His child.

I promise you, you are not alone."

Til next week!

~Sister Ordanza

P.S

I'm excited for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, I can't sent cards because I can't find in any shops because British Mum's Day was a month ago! Anyways, I'm excited to Skype my family this Sunday! Gahhhhh!

P.P.S

Can I have the addresses of the Brit anons, please? I miss Kayla, Jess and Lottie!

I have a favor to ask y'all!

Please share one of my posts on FB. Salamat po! :)

https://www.facebook.com/sisterlorelei.ordanza

New Area

22 April 2014

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Ugh.

Peke lang. Nyaha.

Dear Family and Friends,

Sister Loveland and I are both staying here in Kettering this transfer. Yayyy.

Last week's been the most intense and spiritual feast moment in my mission so far.

Geoffrey got baptised last Saturday which was mine and my family's 6th year mark of being members of the church and my month mark in the mission field as well. How amazing was that?! He's kind of shy and when he bore his testimony, it was really uplifting. He found the church through the news paper advertisement about the Open House. Cool, isn't it? :)

After his baptism, we planned to go to certain area but suddenly we felt prompted to knock another people's home. And guess what? We found a person that Heavenly Father prepared for His faithful servants. ;)

His name's David. Gah. All of our investigators are potential priesthood holders. Yayyyy!

He is soooooooooo prepared! He read the Book of Mormon before and he know that it is true and he knows that Joseph Smith's a true prophet of God! Man, we haven't taught him anything yet that time and he also mentioned the Great Apostasy in depth! He also said that he's praying of what church should he go to and asked us if he could come to our church, and we're like, heck yeahhhhhhhhhhhh! Haha. Okay, not like that but yeah, he came to church and three more of our investigators.

The field is white already to harvest.

I love you all!

♥,

Sister Ordanza

Hiya!

14 April 2014
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Man, I ran out of cool subject lines. XD

Dear Family and Friends,

Last week's been the most amazing and spiritual week that I have had so far. We've had intense lessons with our investigators. And I am so excited for Geoffrey's baptism this Saturday!

Today on my personal study, I've read 1 Nephi 8. We're all familiar that this chapter talks about Lehi's vision of the tree of life but I want to focus on the iron rod. :)
We all know that the iron rod symbolizes the word of God, the scriptures. I remembered in our Institute Class back home, President Angoy asked us a question that went like this: "If the Book of Mormon was written for our day, what is our attitude towards it right now?".

Sometimes, we can't fit our scripture study time to our hectic schedule but hey, guess what, the prophets wrote it for OUR GENERATION because they knew that we will face a lot of turmoils in our lives and they knew that the scriptures will help us overcome it and have a positive attitude everyday.

As I read the scriptures everyday, I feel closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I can really feel their influences in my life. I have no family or best friends (like Meg, Joy and Em) here but our Father and brother Jesus can make me feel that it's okay, that I can do everything. I can rely on them.

(Oh wait, I have Sister Loveland! ;))

So, will you study the scriptures DAILY?

I promise, nay, the Lord promised us that if we do this, He (through the scriptures) will tell us all things what we should do. ( 2Nephi 32:3)

Anyways, we have English, Scottish, Mexican food everyday. We have American  food if we don't have meal appointments. Yeah, sometimes we have Asian food. And yes, instant noodles. Haha. I'm sorry, Mom. But hey, I am going to cook adobo, sopas and baked biko this week. Watch out! Booo yeah!

Sadly, I have to buy new skirts and dresses. :( Nay, I'm not sad. XD (Yes Sushi, that shirt that you've sent doesn't fit  anymore. huhubels. :( :( )

Guess what's really sad? My size is in the 12-13 year old sections! Even in shoes! Man, that's terrible. I never doubted my genes until I came here in England. Nyaha. Whatever.

So, til next week! :)

Mahal ko kayo!

~Sister Ordanza

S/O to Mary Joy Maico and Ana Marie Macaso for having their bachelor degrees! I'm so proud for both of you!!!!!! :)

P.S.
Belated happy birthday to Yannie Erika Queano. (Ugh, I can't do the enye here.)

P.P.S.

I won't be able to email next Monday because on the 23rd's our Transfer's Day. We will have our PDay on Tuesday though.

P.P.S.

I can't accept Antony Keen's friend request on FB, not yet. Not allowed. I'm not in his area.

P.P.P.S.

I don't have enough time to reply on your email every week so can you please email me your home addresses so that I can send you handwritten letters instead? I love you all so much!

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