Week 84 - Bonbon 1/20/2013

well this week was really good we were able to go on some more exchanges we worked in a place called Allen and they speak Tagalog there so it was really fun to practice and its cool because i got to work with elder Smith again who was in my district last year when he was a brand new missionary but we were able to get a few lessons in and do some good finding and we talked about some concerns they are having in their ward and we think we may have found a way to more fully help them out and then because there are two words in Allen we then worked with the Allen 2 elders where i got to work with elder Lenoy who is from Davao on the island of Mindanao and he is awesome we were able to teach 5 lessons during the day and give out some Books of Mormon but the best part of the exchange is always when we sit down at the end of the day and talk about ways we can improve its was a weird day i felt something was bothering him i and i found out at the end of the day that he was really nervous to work with me which to me was really weird Ive never had anyone tell me that before and at the beginning of the day i asked him to lead in all parts of the work for the day whether it was finding or teaching and he seemed a little hesitant to accept but he did and he did awesome but because he was nervous of messing up it actually made him think to much and he was getting jumbled up and tripping over his words but when he started to feel the spirit the lessons all ended up really good and 3 of the 4 people we invited to church were there on Sunday and it was an awesome day the attendance went up we had investigators at church and we were able to have a meeting with the stake president and talk about some of the things the missionaries had seen in their wards and branches that they feel could change and make the meetings more spiritual and it went well and ya just a great week and to answer your question yes me and elder Myers are the zone leaders for Catarman zone its a really fun calling that keeps me busy all the time and helps me to focus on the work more fully and as the zone leaders we had the opportunity to give a training to the zone about working with the leaders as we were asked to by president Andaya but we also added a part on the end of the training about working with your companion because how can we work things out with the leaders if we cant even work things out with our own companion and it was really good we have see some big changes in our zone this week and everyone is teaching more lessons and our reports say that they are meeting with their leaders every week now as well and its really cool because it is helping them to have members work with them more often and we really hope to see them continue to progress throughout the rest of this transfer. well i love you all and hope to keep learning as much as possible and i hope you all can try to look for opportunities to work with the missionaries and help them out a little because it is really hard work and it just works best if the members come along and help out. and just something funny i met a little girl who is the daughter of an inactive member whose name is ABCDEF pronounced ab-see-deaf and a missionary that was assigned here actually gave them the name so weird but i laugh every time i see that little girl