so first off this week has been great! i had my first transfer and im still in Dulag. so me and elder andrus are working hard, we haven't been able to teach the polotican guy again, he is really busy. but as of right now the baptism is on. their names are lorena and stephanie, one day this week we were teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and we were reading in the BOM and read a scripture it said repent ye repent ye, i think it was in 3 nephi but then stephanie said hey this is the scripture god showed me in my dream. i was like what? thats crazy, because earlier elder andrus was trying to explain faith and asked, have you ever seen God and they both said yes! what? and stephanie said ya he came to me in a dream. i cant wait until the 22nd it wil be awesome. so other than that we have another person that would be able to get baptized but she has to get married first. she is 19 with 2 kids, kinda crazy to think she is only a month younger than i am. but they cant afford birth certificates for their kids or a marriage license so they cant get married yet, and we were told not to help pay for it. her asawa or soon to be husband is an inactive member so his sister is the one who told us to go and visit them. but she is going to be in tacloban from oct 5 to the 30 so we have one more appointment with her then we have to wait. but its ok, i think she is getting money from her aunt working for her so she can get a marraige license and birth certificates. so 2 of the elders in my district tranfered so i had the opprotunity to work with another elder on thursday. we went to see a member who cant go to church because he has school sunday morning, but he wasnt there. so then the other elder, elder bondoc didnt want to walk back just yet so he asked his mom if we could share, and she talked after he shared a scripture for an hour. i tried to bare my testimony and close like 10 times but she wouldnt let me she just kept going on and on and on about nothing. just talked about her kids, i think its because she never leaves the house so she has no friends.
so on to the fun stuff we had lots of walking, and talking to freinds because again,everyone was busy, and we are about to drop and investigator because she never reads. and last night we had our first free meal outside of fiesta. an investigator invited us to eat dinner and we showed them a movie called together forever its pretty good and they really liked it. he was like ya how come in the marriage ceremony its only to death do you part? thats dumb, yay maybe we can get another appointment. and he really likes the city of memphis so he started asking me questions about the city and of course the only good things i could tell him is elvis' house is there and we have a really good zoo. then the other stuff he was like wow i thought it was all nice and happy and everyone is playing music of course all he really knows about the US is what he has seen in movies. so in reality nothing. then they started talking about the blind side and i was like yay that school is by my house. ya they were like so is it really like that the "black people" as he said all just yell and fight? lol wow memphis. but of course here they dont say black people they think they are black, they use some very choice words here. i thought it was funny at first but thats just normal here.
so we are in Tacloban again today and i have no money because I forgot my pin for my missionary card, but oh well i think ill survive. so im gunna try to send a few more pictures today if i can figure it out. oh and if you send a package all i need are like instant desserts i can cook without an oven or microwave because all we have is like a camping stove so we are kind of limited on stuff to cook but any ways thats all and if you can find a english to tagalog dictionary that would be nice i want to learn tagalog as well as warry-warry
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