Week 86 - Bonbon 2/4/2013

so good week we got a lot done but not really teaching we ere able to teach a few of our investigators and things and even had a few of them attened church but the highlight of the week was thursday when we had interviews with president Andaya i love that man so much he is amazing and now my interviews are different because i am a zone leader he not only talks to meabout my companion but the entire zone as a whole and our zone is amazing we have some of the best elders and sisters i know and its crazy because every companionship has a companion that is anywhere from 5 weeks to 4 months right now and they are just doing amazing things al the area are progressing and this stake is doing amazing the leaders are ll so willing to work and we just keep encouraging our missionaries to meet with tham and ask if there is anything more they can do to help out and its really working but ya so as zone leaders me and elder myers have an interview together after everyone goes home it was so cool we came in prayed and then he just said thank you we were really shocked we have always heard about the zone leader interviews as being the time he tells us what more we can do and he actually didnt tell us anything he told us thank you and told us that he could feel the unity in our zone throughout the entire day we were with them and its so cool then we just asked him what he did when he was zone leader that he thought really helped him the most and he told us the best zone leaders ask for suggestions and acted on them so we had already been calling all of our missionaries twice a week and talking to them about stuff so that was just like awesome and then he gave us oreos and took us out to eat but then he sent us to fix the sisters gas stove but turns out there regulator is broken so we went out to buy them a new one but all the stores were closed and everything got crazy then we went to san isidro and i spoke cebuano for the first time in my whole mission its really fun because san isidro is a port so they speak like every language but all the people we visited that day on exchanges were cebuano speaking so cool i actually understand it and am already getting pretty good at it. well im in tacloban for Zone leaders council meeting and its so cool to be with such great missionaries. then for chad the hardest things for me one the language then learning to be more understanding of people who come from different cultures its hard because they didnt do the smae things you do and they dont joke the same way you do it weird but then the hardest thing is learning to reapect others agency we can ask and ask but they always have the ability to chose whether or not to do what we ask and even though you know it will help them they still have that some gift from God and we need to respect that well thats all for now we are in a bit of a hurry now we are going to eat dinner at president Andayas house