well this week has probably been the fastest i have ever had on my mission i feel like i just emailed you yesterday but its all good so this week was different had my first district meeting with sister missionaries its way better than a bunch of elders they participate a lot more and it makes things go a lot more smoothly so then Tuesday after noon we taught 4 lessons to both members and investigators and had a really good time the only thing is my companion doesn't really say a whole lot during the lessons but they were some of the most spiritual lessons i have taught and every one of the inactive members we taught that day came to church on Sunday but then Wednesday was fiesta so cool 3 areas and every one has had fiesta while i have been there but it makes work impossible so we went around and since elder barney is awesome and he designed our area map on the computer he printed out little versions of the different parts of our area and we walked around and he drew roads on the map that weren't there yet so that we can make a really accurate large map to put on the wall and then submit it to the municipality hall since they done have a map then we ate at some members houses and played spent some time with the branch president since i just met him for the first time that day after like 4 days in the area but it was good he is awesome then Thursday of course is weekly planning so we studied in the morning and then headed out to work and we were only able to teach one lesson to an investigator who said the elders hadn't been back in 3 months i wasn't really very happy with that they kind of neglected their investigators because elder barneys last companion started teaching piano lessons to the members which is good but not necessarily one of the best ways to use missionary time but that's ok since i wont be teaching piano lessons since i don't know how to play the piano well enough but then Friday we taught a few investigators and members again and one of the investigators is a part member family the dad and one brother aren't members so i invited dad to listen and he was great during the lesson and when i asked him to be baptized he said i cant i was kind of like every one can get baptized but then he explained he only comes here every so often because he has a job in manila and travels back and forth so then i just kind of asked him to come to churchon sunday and see why his family is so happy and loves this church and he said alright anything to help my family it was awesome and he did come to church and his son was actually the speaker in sacrament meeting so it made it even better sothen saturday i gave a training on missionary work in our activity for our special sacrament meeting so we can start getting things going out there and then there was other trainings and then lunch and then we headed to the house of a refferal and set an appointment to go back to them then she took us to her firends house so we could teach them too and it was awesome we kind of let her do the talking at first and they thought we only spoke english and were really nervouse to talk to us until i started talking to them then they were surprised and we ended up with about 20 people standing around just to see the americans that speak warry and then one of them asked us what our job was so i pulled out a restoration pamphlet and taught an overview of what our message is and asked who would want to listen to the whole message when we go back later this week and we got like 7 new investigators and its awesome I'm really enjoying this new place its so much easier to find people to teach but then Sunday we had church and stuff and our first sacrament meeting had like 40 attendance and then we had Missionary Coordination Meeting and i asked the branch president for a copy of the membership records so we can help find the members that we don't know yet and then he said they aren't correct and i asked why and turns out I'm going to have to help these people learn how to use the MLS program here too so the branch president is going to make a schedule with me so that i can help him clean out the records of the people that moved out and the people who have died so that our attendance percentage con go up so turns out what i learned in my last area is going to be used even more than i thought but then in our special sacrament the Sunday school teacher was late and because Sunday school is first here i just got up and taught the lesson and and then we had sacrament meeting and i was the chorister and it was awesome sinve we have been having storms like crazy the power went out like 4 times just during sacrament meeting its crazy how often the power goes out here but the best part was we had 6 investigators come to shurch in our special sacrament and our attendance was 57 so not right that the special sacrament has a higher attendance then the actual branch but its cool since we had more than 100 attendance in total and thats what we report i just want to see our attendance higher than the zone leaders since their attendance is like 130 it wont be to hard but im excited to see whats going to happen in this area when we really get things going and do some real work here its going to be amazing well thats all for now i would be super jealouse of you all at the beach if i hadnt been living on the beach for the past year and since the nicest beach side hotel in the whole mission is like right down the street id say its pretty nice here the only bad thing is i cant swim like you all but thats ok i think ill survive well i love you all and wish you all the best and hope everything continues to be smooth easy going while you guys are all together just dont forget to take lots of pictures for me
so i have only taken a few picture since i have been here and only took 2 myself one is my district here and the other is just like my favorite person in this area she is a cute little girl her name is courtney and apparently she doesnt ever talk to white people but she talks to me all the time its awesome here i will try to take more pictures its beautiful everywhere
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