Week 83 - Bonbon 1/13/2013

this week was really crazy we have had a lot of stuff happen last time i emailed you i was actually in tacloban for a meeting we had with president andaya we learned a ton then we went home on wednesday because elder myers was sick and had to have a check up then when we goy home after no sleep in tacloban and a 6 hour van ride we went straight into companionship exchanges with the catarman elders i worked in catarman and elder myers worked in bobon we had a great spirit led day and found an inactive member who is crazy rich he lives in spain and is only here for business for a few weeks and his mom lives in our area so we got a few refferals and set up an appointment to go back and visit him then we had a few lessons and headed home for our evaluation then elder myers came to catarman and we headed to mondragon for another companion exchange and we both had great days tons of lessons and me and elder johnson were able to go finding for a while and prayed about what color house we needed to visit then i got the answer of blue and he got green so we turned around and started walking and saw a blue-green house and it started raining so the people invited us inside it was so cool everyone is that house is wealthy so we got to share a little about the resstoration and set return appointments with all 7 of them so cool their work is awesome in mondragon then saturday we were invited by the stake president to give a training for the young single adults about missionary work and then we had an interview in the afternoon then we attended a broadcast from the area presidency and went home so no work in my area all week i dont know anything but i did get to do a little work last night but only 1 lesson then we had some crazy promptings to go to another area in our zone  that night and we dont know why and still dont know why but we went and slept on the tile floor in their apartment because the only have 2 mattresses in their apartmentso fun night then this morning we played a little soccer and studied and now we are in catarman to buy food and things but all in all a great week and i am so excited to keep going we are so busy all the time it makes it so much easier to focus on the work and its so nice that my companion is totally on the same page with everything its so cool we like think the same things and just kind of do things the with out telling each other what the other is thinking im so excited to keep working well love you all

P.S. mom i love reading about the things you are doing in your sunday school class its so amazing to hear about how this program is working but one thing that i noticed is something that i have seen in myself as well something my last companion asked me to do and that was to be more open minded to the things others are doing and we should never criticize anyone for what they do its always better to try and understand why people do things the way they do before we say anything its something that i still struggle with myself but if we try to understand people and where they are coming from we can more fully help them ive noticed in my self i speak first then see what happens then have to feel bad first in order to try and go talk to them about what the problem was its better to do the aproach first that way we arent fixing 2 problems only one and we are better able to adjust to what others need and one thing we have been focusing on a lot in our zone right now is not complaining about hard circumstances in preach my gospel in chapter 8 about accountability and one part talks about never blaming anyone (or anything) else for our circumstances if you feel its hard having lots of people its probably because our Heavenly Father wants to teach you something i love you mom and sorry this is my email but it is something that has really helped me and i feel at this time it can help you as well so that your class can become an amazing spiritual experience every week no matter what has happened in your life or theirs during the week i know it can be spiritual if you are all seeking for the learning