well i did get the letter from the robertsons super nice thanks for the
scriptures brandon i always love getting mail even though i have been
horrible at sending it i have a ton of letters i still need to send that
were supposed to be before christmas but we got crazy busy with dengue
and the typhoon and we had a few other things happen and thats why i am
emailing today instead of yesterday. but ya so here in calbayog we didnt
really see the point in being inside aparently in TAcloban it rained
pretty strong but here it only sprikled for a few minutes and was super
cloudy but its ok and we did not clean because we are moving apartments
and it hasnt happened yet but all of our stuff is in our bags and things
so its kind of a mess with all of our things in the front room but
still ok we havent been able to move yet but hopefully later today we
will get things going and move into our area well this week was quite
crazy after the typhoon we got up on wednesday got everything ready that
we needed and headed to catbalogan as soon ans we got the all clear so
that we would be closer to tacloban and then thursday we traveled to
tacloban and and practiced singing for the christmas conference and then
we had a sweet fireside where everyone was given a part of the book of
mormon and was asked to perform a skit wich was really hard for us since
we didnt have time to practice until like 1 hour before the actual
program started but our skit was Alma the younger it was super funny im
going to try to get a copy of it but ill try to explain the sisters were
the narorators for our skit and they just would read a scripture and
then we would act it out so the read about the sons of mosiah and alma
going around destroying the church the people cast as those people went
and beat up the priest it was super funny and then they read the
scripture about the angel coming to visit and then our zone leader elder
johnson ran across the stage and tackled elder kennison who was playing
alma the younger and he started yelling at elder kennison like he was
mister T super funny then because the sons of mosiah and alma the
younger were 2 tongans 2 samoans and 1 little tiny filipino they all
pretended to faint like little girls and then they carried elder
kennison unto alma the older who was elder wooley and elder wooley
covered him with a sheet and him and the priests knelt down and
t\curtains closed and then i ran on stage and elder kennison ran off so
then they opened the curtain after saying 2 days later and then thaey
read the scripture about how alma gets his strength back and how he is a
new person and what not and the i came out from under the sheet
everyone was laughing so hard then i had the job of taking our huge joke
and turning it into a spiritual skit to and they had me bare my
testimony in front of all the missionaries in the whole mission and im
pretty sure that is the biggest group of people i have ever bore my
testimony in front of in my whole life i was praying so much before we
started that i wouldnt say something sarcastic and what made it worse my
freind yelled out its elder Coontz and i started laughing but it was
good i had one assignment during my testimony and that was to talk about
grace and then after that we sang amazing grace so cool for some reason
my zone when they planned this thought i would be the best to turn a
joke into something serious because the planned this while we were in
the hospital but it was amazing and then i stayed the night in CAnmogsay
which was part of my district in san Roque so i stayed in tolosa for
probably my last night ever but thats ok the next day was even better we
played games that the office elders and sisters made and the purpose of
the games was to build christlike attributes but there were still
points for winning the game so my team lost every game we had the least
points out of everyone but we won most humble i was really happy to here
that because a lot of the elders that won for points were the elders
that the whole time we were playing were just talking trash and talking
about how they were number one i realized something in my self that day
is im not that person anymore who wants to win usually i dont even want
to play if i know im going to lose but now its just fun and most of the
time i forget what the score is everytime we play anything and it makes
things a lot more fun for everyone well sorry this is all that really
happened but the reason why i didnt email yesterday was becuase we spent
the day with elder neilsen of the are presidency super cool i leaned a
ton the training he gave us was about a talk given by david a bednar and
i think its called the atonment and mortality but it talks about the
enabling power of the atonement most people only really know about the
cleasing power but the cleasing with the enabling power makes it so much
better i have already been able to aply it to my life and it helps a
lot if you have the chance you should look it up and read it it makes
prayers a lot more meaningful and seems to help you learn a lot more as
well it is amazing and the neilsens are so amazing i wish i could have
spent more time with them they invited me to eat lunch with them and we
talked about a lot they taught me a lot about what i have done on my
mission that i didnt even realize had happened super cool such
insightful people well thats all for this week i love you all and know
that even though we werent able to do much teaching we were most
definately doing missionary work and i know i have been enlightened and i
hope to more fully aply the things i have learned to everthing i do
well this week i have a question in my personal stud i was reading in
mormon 3:12 and mormon says his prayer was without faith i followed the
refferences and learned something interesting and just want to see what
you all get from it and see if what i got was really the reason why
please send my anything you get because if a prophet says he had no
faith then it makes my wonder how strong is my faith but i think i
understand it now. well thank you for everything mom hopefully ill be
able to get the package before i transfer but if not i will still be
able to get the members the gifts through other missionaries thank you
mom you are the best
oh and i also got invited by the polonesian missionaries to sing with
them during Christmas confference we sang a tongan hymn called folofola
mai a sisu or thus saith the lord it is an amazing song and super fun to
sing and i have been trying to learn as much about other langueges as
possible it helps to better understand and i have started to learn
ilongo from my companion its super fun well i love you again bye bye
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