Oh Hi, Wow. :D

Dear Family and Friends,

Yo! Another awesome week has gone by! I have my new daughter now, Sister Quinn from 'Murica! Wohooo! :D

She's so cute, like a Barbie and a Pinterest sistah mish. For reals! :)

MEG, THIS IS SO CRAZY BUT GUESS WHERE SHE'S FROM?!!! PHOENIX, ARIZONA! AHHHHHHHH. K. Calm down na. haha

Hope you got my "Welcome to the MTC" card. haha

Joy, I got your letter na! Yeheyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Have you received mine? I sent another one today. Wohooo! so excited to exchange letters with ya bez! :)

The Filipino Elder didn't come this transfer, maybe his visa got delayed so I don't have the "something" you gave to him for me. hehe Our next transfer will be on December 30th!

Oh btw, there's a new Elder from Hong Kong and he's a part Filipino part Chinese that came with Sister Quinn. His Mum's from Ilocos Norte. :)

I am so excited for our mission conference with the London South Mission tomorrow! Elder Quentin L. Cook from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will address us! He served in this mission and he had the chance to be companions with Elder Holland! He also presided over the Philippines Area Presidency before President Edwards and Elder Teh! So yeah, I am so excited!!!!!!

I am talking on the phone while we were on the bus the other day. When I finished the conversation with one of our investigators, I said "Love you!". After that, the couple who sat behind us said that I am so sweet. That led to a gospel conversation. They are atheist but they invited us over to their home to learn more about our message. Wohooo! And they gave us some unripe bananas. I promise you, we live in the city! haha

But it's still part of the British culture to have a market day here with fresh fruits and veggies. (Pretty sure those bananas were imported.) ;)

Also, the ward is so amazed with their full-time missionaries (ahem, that's us) because on December 13th, we have a looooooooot of baptisms. Ahhh! Can't wait for our (including the Elders' ) investigators to get baptised!

Kerstin attended church yesterday and she loved it! :)

We've had the opportunity to teach one of our investigators yesterday. We taught her the Restoration with a baptismal date in our minds. But this case was different, it doesn't happen normally because me and Sister Quinn both felt prompted that this investigator needed to choose for herself her baptismal date. Right there with us, we invited her to choose and date and ask Heavenly Father if that is the right date for her to be baptised. After her prayer, me and Sister Quinn were both teary eyed because the date she picked was exactly the date we planned for her! Isn't it amazing how the Spirit works between the full-time missionaries and the investigators?!

This is why I am so excited to work everyday! I am so excited to witness miracles everyday.

I hope you didn't get bored with my novela today. haha

I love you all and advance Happy Thanksgiving to my 'Merican friends! :)

♥,

Sister Ordanza

Sister Quinn and I! Wohoooo!

Sister Quinn and I! Wohoooo!

See how pretty Sister Quinn is? :) ♥

The Gilbank's! She is from Misamis Occidental.

She cooks really good adobo! Nom nom nom. :)

Oh hey, I'm back!

Dear Family and Friends,

This is gonna be a quick email so before you scold me for not emailing for almost a transfer let you hear me first my story....

This has been a crazy transfer! Guess what?!!!!!!!! I am going to move to St. Albans ward tomorrow and I'm having a daughter, I mean I am going to train a new missionary there. This is gonna be so scary but I'll try my best. Oppps, I will be in a trio as well for 10 days. Sister Gorniak from Australia will be our companion fro 10 days and she will go home. I don't know who will be the sister missionary that I am going to train, I will meet her tomorrow.

Canterbury is such a magnificent place and I am so sad that I've been here for just six weeks and I haven't seen any attraction but everything happens for a reason!

I enjoyed General Conference weekend!

I am so excited for a lot of things. I'll name some:

-My best friend Joy will enter the MTC this Friday! She's the bomb.com!

-My best friend Meg got her mission call to AZ! Wohoooooooo! Hermana, te amo!

-I will meet my British best friends on the 25th! Ahhhhhhhhhh! I'm so stoked!

I love you all!

-Sistah Ordanza

A Day in London...

The Poppies at the Tower Hill!

Yeah, literally just a minute in the Big Ben!

For Your Eyes Only

Canterbury Zone!

Man, I've had pancit canton and sweet tamarind (bomba)! Filipino food for the win!

Nellie, our friend from Bulgaria had her birthday party with the Jones!

My besties here in Canterbury, the YSA's. There will be more coming soon when the term starts in uni! :)

Our investigator's birthday, Marling, from Venezuela, Sister Finch's 17 month mark and my 6th month mark all in one day! Wohooo! 

L-I-F-E

9 Sept. 2014
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Dear Family and Friends,

Man, first of all, I would love to say HELLO!!!!!!

Gah. I'm so hyper today. Tsk.

Anyways, how are you all doing on this lovely day?

Mine and Sister Finch's week was good. We did a lot HARD WORK. :)

We decided to "heart attack" (we put lots of hearts on their doors with messages on it) all the members of Canterbury ward to develop friendship and trust with them. We can see that we're having success in it because there are members who posted photos on facebook and the ward is getting excited to get one from us as well. Hopefully, this all goes well. :)

Sister Finch wasn't feeling very well the other day but we did work from the afternoon until the evening and when we got home we were surprised that there are cookies on our door! We were cookie attacked! Yeah, by the Elders. haha

Man, I am so excited for the term to start. I really love to work with the YSA's!

Uhmm yeah, that's pretty much my week. lol

 I wanna leave this quote to all of you:

"You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something."

Love,

Sistah Ordanza

P.S

Mom, if you would like to send me something on Christmas, I suggest that you send it now so I can have it on time. ;) Love you po! 

End of Kettering. Start of Canterbury.

1 September 2014
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Dear Family and Friends,

I cried at the train station when Sister Silva said goodbye to me. I don't know. She's my best friend here in the mission field, she's been my big sister and I love her so much. But what can you do? Missionary life.

When I arrived here at Canterbury with Sister Finch, I felt a warm feeling in my heart.

I know that this is where the Lord exactly wants me to be.

Canterbury is such a beautiful place! It's truly the garden of England. It is also the heart of the Church of England faith. (Like Utah for LDS and Vatican for Catholics). The ward is really small compare to Kettering, I guess they just have around 50-70 people. We have quite a lot of YSA's in the ward because we have two universities here.

I love my new companion. Sister Finch is from Utah. She's like me. She is amazing. I just want to be the best and final companion the she ever had. That's why we work hard everyday til the last minute of curfew but we make sure that we're having fun and eating properly. The area is just tough because a lot of people we stop are tourists that live in other places/countries. 

I miss Kettering and the dinner appointments every night but my companion is a great cook so I can't complain! :)

Our district is really small. It's just me, Sister Finch, Elder Mongelli (Italy) and Elder Hou (mainland China). Oh, we have Elder and Sister Jones, the senior missionaries who take care of us and the YSA's. :)

I love stopping students because they're just the same age with me. So yeah. And also, I hope they will make this as a YSA ward soon. :D

I love being with the YSA's so much. We're like besties with them! We have FHE every Monday night with them.

So, that pretty sums up our week. I'm still adjusting with the accent/language/culture because I carried all the Kettering accent/language/culture with me. lol

I forgot to say, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

It's already September 1st!

Man, I miss the Philippines because of our Christmas season!

Whatevz.

Bye for now.

Be a good boy/girl! ;)

Love,

Sister Ordanza