like you mom i was sick this week, not fun, but ill get to that later.
monday we had a family home evening and it was really good. its a part
member family and the dad is the only one that isn't a member. we have
been teaching him like 3 or 4 times a week, maybe my first baptism. but
this week has been full of us planning something and then teaching
something completely different, or teaching completely different people.
its really weird but i have really loved the lessons we have taught, they
were all led by the spirit and completely amazing.
wednesday i had
LTM [leadership training meeting] and it was amazing. i got to learn so
much and also got to learn from some amazing missionaries, most of which
are going home next transfer. but i would really like to get to know them
again after the mission. one is named elder Cox, from Utah of course, just
like all the American missionaries in this mission. but he was also
trained in Dulag and is kinda crazy, everyone remembers him
even if they aren't members. he is an amazing missionary. then during our
teaching practice or real play as President Andaya calls them we were
able to solve the concern of a member for another set of missionaries,
and hopefully help him understand why he needs to do all he can to
follow and not worry about the other people. its amazing when the spirit
speaks through you, its like an adrenaline rush and you don't want it to
stop. i love it! i also have been really trying to improve on my Christ
like attributes lately as i realize i have no patience. it's hard to help
people when you don't have patience and it's really been helping, i better
understand the people. another thing is charity, because with charity
every thing else just comes. it's so cool! i gave a talk on charity
yesterday and while i was preparing realized there is so much more to
charity then just helping other people. it all starts with you being
worthy of Christ love first, then you can show that Christ like love to
other people. and i know that that can truly help us no matter what we
are doing because if we serve others we serve God and blessings come. it's
amazing to see all the blessings that come from it.
One thing about
teaching with just the spirit though is if i don't write down what we
taught right away i forget and its really hard to plan for the next
appointment.
this week on friday the Zone leaders reminded us
that we are supposed to be singing at their baptism saturday, no
practice ,gay, but what ever. so we practiced a ton and then they didn't
have the baptism it's next week, which is good because we were not ready.
but bad because she is waiting to get baptized because of her
job, darn. just glad i didn't have to interview her because she doesn't
speak any Warray Warray just Tagalog and my Tagalog is still really
basic. i don't get to practice very often so its hard because my companion
isn't very good at tagalog any more because of Warray so all i ever
speak is Warray. we have a member we taught who only speaks Tagalog
and we both struggled to speak Tagalog but he understood the message
even though it was really mixed with Warray. they are an amazing family
and have a lot of potential in this branch.
friday night i came
home and i was dead tired my heart was pounding and it was hard to breath
so i went to bed and woke up to the alarm and its almost like i didn't
sleep at all. my heart was still pounding and beating pretty fast so i
took my pulse and it was about 80 i thought that was kind of high for
just waking up. so later i texted sister andaya and she said i have
heartburn and acid reflux and i'm kind of dehydrated, not good. so she told
me increase my water intake avoid fried fatty and spicy foods, lol, one problem, that's all we eat. everything is fried and its usually spicy.
fun. so i have basically eaten all of my soup and noodles that the ward
sent me and i eat like pasta and stuff when we eat out. its nice but i
feel like its not enough. luckily there are lots of apples here so i
have eaten quite a few of them.
Saturday i basically slept all day and
was still super tired so i went to bed and got up for my talk sunday. i
felt a little better but still really tired. i spoke in sacrament and i
taught priesthood and we had a district councilmen. his calling is
basically like dads, but he talked with the Zone leaders about my lesson and
talk, turns out i need to replace him in his calling! lol i dont think so! then we taught 2 inactive SAs (single adults) and our investigator and came home
because i was dead tired. then i cooked dinner for everyone and ate my
soup and while we were talking after dinner the ZLs (zone leaders) received a phone
call from the APs (assistant to president) and they said you have a new AP in your zone. he is
a phillipino that got here the same day as me, that's crazy! he hasn't even
been senior companion yet and now he is the assistant to the president.
he is amazing! he is the only one of the philippinos i remembered from the
first day. he is going to be an amazing missionary.
well that's all about
me. tyler better not be hurt or i kill him! lol that stinks that chads
partner didn't show, oh well maybe next time. thing's happen. kamrie, stay
cute i love getting pictures of you and i don't see a whole lot of Scott
which is weird he is usually everywhere.
well i love you all and can't
wait till next week to email and hear from you again it just comes to
fast every week
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