Alright, so this will be short (like always). I wanted to tell you all how EXCITED I am for everyone to get to have that amazing homecoming with Ryan!!! Yes, I am jealous and would be lying if I didn't say that it is kind of a hard thought to be thinking about how I cannot be there right now, but I am also so grateful for all of your support that you have given him over these past two years. They have flown by that is for sure. Keep it up guys. I have learned from being out here that we cannot do anything alone. We need our Father in Heaven. We need our family and friends. As people... we need support. So, I hope that all of you will keep supporting each other in righteous doings and don't be afraid to receive help from each other. Ask each other for help and ask our Heavenly Father for guidance because He will give it to us if we ask. He is there with His arms wide open... waiting for us to ask Him so He can pour out those blessings and that direction. I know that this is true because not only have I seen it in my life.... I have seen it in the lives of those that we are teaching and those who are taking action and asking. The Lord does give us answers to our prayers, sometimes expecting them to come faster or in different ways than they do come... but they will come. 

I love you all and I hope that my next emails are filled with pictures and happy little notes of the homecoming!!

Love, Sister Merrill

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Mahal, Sister Merrill

Not much time

I will send a family email next week :) I love you.

here are some quick pictures. OUr district study this morning on the beach. 

WASHINGTON NATIONALS!!!

Balut for dinner... OH YEAH!!

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Mahal, Sister Merrill

Ok everyone so do i have a story for you..... We to cut right to the chase... Sister Evans almost died. No joke. Here is the story now.

We had exchanges (you just swap companions and areas for 24 hours) so she went over to a different area. She came back to our area and was way sick feeling and just felt bad. Well, she woke me up at 4;35 am and said "Sister, i think im having a really bad allergic reaction" i told her that i would grab somebenadryl. When i turned on the lights, thats when i saw that her lips were like a botox job gone horribly wrong!! She told me that she was feeling her throat close off and that she couldnt breath well.

I called the mission presidents wife and she told us that since she took a pill to wait 15 min and see if it goes down. I hung up and looked at sister evans again and got the biggest prompting to go directly to the hospital. So we got dressed and started to walk to find a trike somewhere. Sister evans started to get very... almost.. almost like she just wanted to lay down and saying i cant breath in a very quiet voice. We finally found a tryke and she was on the verge of passing out. I ran her into the hospital and told them what she needed. 

They had to inject her with an allergy shot and after 5 minutes she could finally start to feel like she could feel her lungs opening up. 

I look back at that experience and wonder what the heck happened. I feel like none of that was me. Getting her to the hospital, talking to the people... none of it. Sister evans told me that as she was sitting there that i seemed so calm and in control and knowledgeable about what needed to be done. I told her that it was seriously the spirit. So, I testify that not only does the spirit guide and testify of truth.... but it protects us and really does give us what we need in every hour

So she is ok now but i will have her email the pic that she wanted me to take and i will send it next week ok? 

So. There is the news about this week. Dang. Good thing all is well though :)

I have no time so I will have to send the other stuff that happened, next week.

I love you all!!

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some more yummy balut!! 

and also, we went to a house to "tao po" because you dont knock on doors... and this is what was in front of the house. Yeah... NEVER MIND haha
Mahal, Sister Merrill