so this week has been pretty fun and even faster than last week but part
of it is because of what i did to try and help my companion i wanted
him to see what would happen if he transfered and got put with just a
disobedient missionary so i did some things like waking up at 8 but not
really i still woke up at 6 i just didn't let hi8m know i was awake so
then there was no exercise and no studies and we didn't pray as a
companionship when we left the house and he didn't say a word to me and
as we worked we only made it to one person i wanted to show him how hard
this work can be if God isn't helping us so then wednesday i switched
back i got up at 6 i exercised i had my personal study and we had
companion study and then we had district meeting and we went out to
teach and were able to fill our time until about 6 when the people
weren't home and then the person that was supposed to work with us wasn't
there so i said well nothing else to do lets go home and he just looked
at me funny but still followed me home but i had started a fast that's
why we went home he didn't know but i went home studied again had
language study and i had another personal study then i went to bed and
he ate dinner at about 10 then the next day back to being the most
obedient missionary i know how to be and it came time for our weekly
planning which was the reason why i was fasting because one part of
weekly planning is called companionship inventory which is time you take
to tell your companion his strengths and also the weaknesses so that
way we can make goals to improve and i asked him if there was anything
he say that i did last week that he wanted me to change and he told me
no i was a little upset that he didn't even notice the difference so then
i told him the things i did and he just was like ya i thought that was
weird so i said ya and you didn't even say anything to me why??? he had
no idea how to answer so i told him how i felt. i feel like i have been
sent here to help elder Barney to prepare for something big i don't know
what it is yet i don't know if it will be an assignment or if it will be
helping another missionary become obedient but all i know is that if i
don't do what the lord wants me to do right now with elder barney his
mission wont be what i needs to be and i just told him that i love him
the members love him and we just want to see you improve so that you
don't waste these two years just following your companion around and he
actually took it a lot better than i thought he would and then we went
out to work and went finding or tracting which i am not very good at but
we didn't find a member and were able to set an appointment with them so
we could come back and share with them and hopefully get them coming
back to church too but then friday we went on exchanges with the zone
leaders and i got to work in calbayog with elder misalucha whose dad is
coming to district conference in sept so its going to be super cool i
might get to meet another person that served a mission with dad but the
exchanges were awesome the people here in calbayog are super nice and
friendly even the rich people we were able to talk with 3 or 4 super
rich people whose houses were giant and were able to get return
appointments with them then we went to the church because elder
misalucha gives piano lessons every friday and saturday night but then
saturday we went to gandara which is just so far away its not even fun to
go there until i get there and start working its such a good area we
get referrals there every week and the members want to work because there
haven't been missionaries there for like 10 years and it just opened
back up and last week we had 52 attendance and a lot of the members don't
even know that there is a church in Gandara right now so we are going
to start focusing a little bit more of our time there its so cool we
ride on little boats down the river to get to our investigators house
and then sunday was cool because president maxfield came to church in
Gandara the ol\nly problem with gandara is most people don't have the
priesthood so they need the missionaries to do things but the mission is
talking about hopefully putting missionaries into Gandara again since
back in 99 they had two sets of missionaries they are super excited and i
hope i get to be the one to open it back up next transfer but i doubt
it will happen oh well but ya attendance went up again in gandara and
they didn't even know president maxfield was coming and we had 79
attendance the only bad part is we have church on the first floor of a
members house and its super hot and crowded but so cool well that's about
it besides the fact that i have been fed by members more in these last 3
weeks than i have in my whole mission so far its awesome i love free
food and it makes it so much easier to get back to work well this
morning we had a district activity we played football and foursquare but
then the branch president showed up and said they were going to but
cutting down trees so that's what we did we tied a rope to the tree then
chopped it down with a machete they are still about 5 feet tall and
apparently will keep growing so cool but we chopped down like 15 trees
today so cool i have a picture with all the trees but i forgot my card
reader so ill send them next week well i love you all and i plan on
writing some letters tonight since we have a post office right down the
street so hopefully i can send a few here in the next week or so well
until next week.
that's so cool Bailey is married but totally weird at the same time that my friends are getting married i feel old now...
No comments:
Post a Comment