so this week has had some really cool things and some really scary
things happen since one of the sisters in my district almost died sunday
night crazy but ill get to that in a second tuesdaywe had district
meeting and then went out to work and for the first two hours are always
the hardest here because the have siesta every day and they sleep in
the afternoon after lunch but its ok because once it got to around 3 we
just taught every hour until we finished at about 8 and had to go catch a
ride back to calbayog so we wouldnt have to walk the 5 kilometers home
at night down the highway but the lessons were amazing we were able to
teach exactly what was needed to here and we had a family commit to come
to church on sunday for the first time ever as a whole family even
thought they didnt come at least we are making progress but when we
finish our last lesson with a part member family we were waiting for
about 20 minutes for a ride and were about to just start walking when we
see a van go by and my companion throws up his hitch hikers thumb as a
joke and the van turned around and come back we were a little worried
and turns out it was the assistants on their way to catarman to go on
companionship exchanges with elder ostler so we got a free ride super
nice then wednesday we went to Gandara and found some members we didnt
know yet and got a referal from the members and we were also able to
teach one of our other investigators. the members there are so cool and
always willing to come with us to work and always giving referals and
hopefully next transfer they will have missionaries of their own and be
able to really progress then i went and had a meeting with the owner of
the apartment we are supposed to be living in to find out a way for us
to move back in to the apartment since the church paid a years rent on
the house and we dont live in it so not good but we got some stuff
figured out so that we can get tubig and be able to just shower and
stuff with out having to worry about smelling bad after since the water
there is nasty but thats ok we have been really working hard and having
fun thursday was our day to catch up on all of our paper work since we
were super behind but now its all up to date and ready to go we just
have to make sure that doesnt happen any more and friday we were able to
teach two really awesome lessons one to a family that hasnt been to
church for like 15 years and we were able to find out their concern as
to why they dont come anymore because before they just said they had no
money but we knew they did because they would go to calbayog all the
time just for fun and its farther than the church but turns out some
members laughed at them before when they would try to read the english
manuals and told them all kinds of lies about how the church worked and
its all just a big mess of misunderstandings but hopefully we will be
able to get it resolved soon then saturday Gandara liwat and we were
able to teach 2 lessons one to our investigator who will hopefully be
getting baptized oct 16 and another investigator who is a referal from
the members and he was an investigator about 10 years ago whenever they
last had missionaries in Gandara and he is really good and really
listens just hope we are doing our part and teaching everything he needs
to learn but then sunday was fun church twice fasting and then to a
birthday party then to another members house for a second dinner so cool
then home and when we got home i took off my dress shirt so that i
could eat and so i sat down cut open my mango finished and then the
phone rang the sisters were calling us because the zone leaders were in
tacloban and asking us to go give a blessing to sister ariola who is
training and american sister named sister borgenschutz who only speaks
english for now and sister ariola had eaten some squid and she is really
allergic so we got ready really fast and headed down the street to the
sisters apartment where we found the branch missionaries sisters helping
sister borgenschutz carry sister ariola to the road so they gave her to
me and i carried her until we found something that could take her to
the hospital and they left and we started running trying to call sister
andaya to let her know what was going on and i finally talked to one of
the assistants and the got us connected and we got to the hospital and
they were just trying to keep her breathing and sent us to go buy
medicine to make the swelling go down since they dont carry the medicine
needed and so we went and no one sells it in all of calbayog so they
gave her a different more expensive medice and it really calmed her down
and got the swelling down and we finally got out of the hospital at
about 10 or so and then they went home and we went and gave sister a
blessing and went home and in the morning we got a thank you text saying
that she was all better so that was nice but then i didnt get to email
yesterday because we were in catbalogan for a zone activity and then
slept there and had a meeting in the morning and then we are now back in
calbayog and i am going to do a baptismal interview in a little and i
only slept for about 2 hours last night so ill probably just go home do
my laundry and go to bed and try to catch up on some sleep im dead tired
right now and it feels good just hope i did all i could this week but
there is always next week to improve well i love you all still and know
that God is watching over you all and we can see that in our every day
lives all we have to do is try to see it and ask him for help every
morning on our knees that everything will work out the way it needs to
well always praying. (I had a member send me this scripture right before
i left San Roque but just now remembered to share it super cool Moroni
8:3).
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