First Transfer to Olongapo!

Greetings from Olongapo City!!

The one the only. I have to much balita but no time to write it all. I have had a wonderful week.

First things first, I love you all and thank you for everything.

I have been transferred to Olongapo Zone. In my area is Kalaklan, Mabayuan, and Filtration. We live in Gordon Heights, I think. We are really close to Subic. It is a big city out here life is awesome here I really feel home here I had a feeling I would come here one day actually. I feel at home for sure. I really like my new area already. It is absolutely beautiful in every way. There are lots of hills and big mountains that we get to climb up to go to the investigators houses and such. It is truly made for me. I really love it. My new companion is Sister Tuimaseve. She is so sweet, she is a foreigner just like me she was born in Samoa full Samoan siya, but she moved to Utah when she was 12 years old. She is only 2 transfers ahead of me.

I believe in the gift of tongues. I truly do. Everyone is chismissing or gossiping about how we are going to do it as 2 foreigners in this new area and not very good at Tagalog. I have been given a new and exciting challenge, each step that I take I have to take with the Lord. He is the only way that I can do this. My companion rocks. She has an awesome sweet spirit about here, she is just full of love. I know I can learn a lot about Charity and Love and Service from her. But I really have to get my chops going with the Tagalog if we want our investigators to understand the lessons. It is definitely a challenge, but we can do it. I feel an odd sense of comfort-ability here. I know we can do some damage out here.

Their accent out here in Olongapo is more straight, its more clear and beautiful. I like it. Mas Maganda dito kaysa sa Abucay. joke. Maybe I've been given the gift of tongues, I don't know but I am being richly blessed.

I have learned so much out here already. I feel like I am finally in the right place. Masaya. Natutuwa ako.

--Sister James