so to start i just want to say i have not been released from my calling
as councilor but anyway this week has been really fun i was only able to
teach a few lessons but it was amazing we had the opportunity Monday to
play basketball with some of the young men in our branch it was really
cool then i bought a pineapple for like 30 pesos amazing that's not even
a dollar and it was huge then i had district meeting Tuesday and my
whole district was actually there for the first time the whole transfer
it was really good this last week i have been trying to memorize
scriptures and i started reading about virtue in PMG and it talks about
using memorized verses or hymns to keep your mind centered on Christ
always and it has really been helping i have been able to be focused a
lot more i have now memorized 22 verses in the past week and plan to
just keep going until i go home from my mission and maybe even after i
go home but ya then i had my branch presidency meeting where we
submitted a name to replace me in the branch presidency but it hasn't
happened yet but oh well then i updated the finances and president was
sick so i got to stay for seminary so there would be Melchizedek
priesthood in the church and since i had the key and only the branch
presidency here are aloud to have the keys then we went home and then it
was Wednesday transfer announcement day so in the morning i did laba
and studied then at about noon we got a phone call from the zone leaders
and i have now been transferred and they said i needed to be in
Tacloban on thursday after noon and not on friday morning like normal
and i got a little bit worried turns out i just needed to be the travel
companion for a missionary who was going to be training and the best
part is when i got to tacloban i got to see a really good friend of mine
who i havnt seen in almost a year because elder Hatch is back and
better than ever he went home in the MTC and then re-submitted his
papers and got called to Philippines Tacloban Mission again so cool but
then i also got to spend the whole day with elder leishman we went
shopping in downtown Tacloban and he had an ingrown toenail removed
super fun to spend the day with him again then we had transfer meeting
Friday morning it was crazy like half the mission got transferred to bad
i didnt tell anyone in my branch that i was leaving i only told the
branch president because i didnt have time to go visit people since i
had other responsibilities that last day i had to extend 3 callings and
make a program for our branch activity but it got done and i am glad
with what happened but ya so at transfer meeting i got my letter and
opened it and it said i would be going to Sta. Margarita in Catbalogan
zone samar so then after the meeting we loaded up in a van and rode for
about 4 hours to get to our new apartment in Calbayog it was ridiculous
we left at like 2:30 and didn't get to our apartment until like 7 that
night super tired but i am now living in a pretty big city that has like
real restaurants and stuff so cool but my first day was crazy here
because i have 2 areas and in the one its called gandara they speak the
same Warray-warray that the do on leyte but in my other area Sta.
Margarita they speak a completly different dialect even thought they are
right next to each other so wierd the word for play goes from being
mulay to being uyag its going to be really fun but i luckily can still
understand even when the vocabulary is different but the biggest problem
is my companion doesnt know the language at all his name is elder
Barney he has been here for 3 transfers and the members complained to me
as soon as i got here that he doesnt talk at all but i already knew
that because president Andaya gave me a special assignment to get him
talkative since i am really talkative now thats one thing i have noticed
i have really changed in my life is i will talk to any one and every
one and i really enjoy talking so now i have an assignment to help my
companion open his mouth more often but ya elder Barney is from texas he
went to texas A&M for free because he is a freakin genius and the
fact that i just used spell check to spell genius shows how much smarter
he is majoring in nuclear engineering and his dad is a chemical
engineer so ya just a little bit different than my last companions since
they all played sports and elder Barney doesnt at all but he is a goofy
little kid he is pretty funny but he only speaks when we are in the
apartment and speaking english so i told him i will not speak english to
him any more so he can learn Warray & Warray but its getting there
so then sunday we went to both of our sacrament meetings in the first
one it starts at 8 we have class first then i taught the youth sunday
school class it was really good and aparently i will be teaching them
every week so itll be fun then i spoke in sacrament meeting and every
one was laughing at my Warray since it is from leyte my tone is
different and its really hard when i speak aparently they all think i am
from tacloban when they talk to me on the phone and then i tell them im
american they dont normally believe me until they see me then in our
second sacrament where the language is the same as mine everything was
good and i spoke in sacrament again so i basicly just apend the entire
day at church on sundays and then go home its crazy but extremely fun as
well then we went home did our planning and stuff and now im here this
morning just following my companion around since i dont know where
anything is yet but its alright ill survive but thats about it besides
the fact that i now live with the son of a man that served a mission
with dad Elder Misalucha so cool and his dad is coming here to speak at
district conference this coming september i hope im still here for that
itss be awesome he is an area seventy and apparently a very good speaker
im super excited well thats all for now im sorry not much happened but i
love you all and i am already starting to love these people its so cool
wht the gospel can change in the way we see other people.
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