Week 12 - Dulag 9/4/2011

 Zac with his Mission President and his wife

so lets see today i got up at 6 did laundry then got ready and caught a bus for tacloban, they were showing the jackie chan movie where he has the suit, but that was probably the nicest tv ive seen since i got here! i am in the mall in an internet cafe its nice, its got ac. it hasnt been too hot at night anymore just 85 in the apartment i was actually cold the last coulpe of nights and had to wrap up in a sheet. its kinda weird to think that im cold when its still 80, but whatevs. so i am going to try and send some pics with this email but im not sure yet. (he forgot his cord, but his companion had a card reader so got few)

so this week we havent spent to much time outside of the apartment we only had one full day all week. of course monday was p-day and my companions b day we made cake and bought some roticary chicken then played some b ball.  so we kinda just went and saw an inactive family then went back for dinner.

then tuesday was district meeting and we bought a chicken and one of the elders who lives in our apartment made chicken adobo it was delicouse. so then we went out met a few people, then i got to teach my first lesson in warry-warry it was awesome! we taught her and her husband and it was great my companion keeps saying he is amazed at how much im able to talk during the lesson. i almost know enough to teach the whole thing by myself, but good thing he is there for when i get lost or dont understand a question. its really hard to understand them, they speak way fast. so then we went to go see a guy we met who knew ezra taft benson to be our prophet but he never seems to be home. no one is ever at their store either, but oh well we will find him. so then that night i got pretty sick i had some pains in my stomach and was up all night with ibm. (this is not a fun thing for the mom to read!)

so then in the morning we went to clean a dyipni (that is what the vehicle in the picture is called)  it was awesome, he fed us and i threw it up later, but oh well. i went back and fell asleep until about 12 then we had language study. i laid down for a little while then we went out to teach. we met with an investigator family who told us we cant come back until after feista, so not till the end of this week, but oh well maybe theyll come to church sunday. then we got on the back of a moped thing with an extened seat and went to see an inactive family but not home, so we did a little exploring and found a new investigator who we are going to tomorrow.

so then thursday was weekly planning so nothing till the after noon again. and all we were able to do (because our investigators were "busy", they were drinking, but oh well) was to visit some members and shared and got a refferal and set up a family home evening for tuesday with a part member family. itll be cool.

so then friday was our monthly cleaning day so again nothing till about 3, but we did have a lunch appointment in a cemetary! i have some pics it was awesome food they had a whole pig.








so president Andaya stopped by and he is going to order me a study desk because we are short one, awesome! so then we went to an inactive family who doesnt come because their oldest son has school sunday morning so we helped him with his english for his history exam. its really hard to explain english, i never thought i would need to do it. so then to another inactive family who live across the street and they asked us to help them move their house a few meters closer to their kitchen! thatll be fun we are just picking it up and moving it! then our investigator didnt show up agian, and i drank a 1.5 liter bottle of orange soda that costs less than a dollar, awesome! we get ripped off in america. saturday we went out with the branch president and a member and saw some inactives and taught a lesson to some new investigators. so second lesson awesome! and the bracnh president was impressed with my warry, he said i need to just talk, but i am kinda too scared unless its a lesson. oh well, maybe some day. so we met a few more in actives then back home because we were fasting, so no dinner.

then sunday at church we had one of our investigators at church, awesome! and we had 33 in attendance and 3 people that are normally there didnt come, darn maybe we will have even more next week. so then we didnt get to eat untill about 3, i was dieing we fasted for like 27 hours, and we arent supposed to do that. so hopefully never again but we only went over because they had a 2 hour meeting after church and asked us to come, when really we just sat there. oh well. then we saw a few more people and submitted our numbers and some how despite all the set backs our numbers increased from last week! awesome! so now im in tacloban and we are gunna do some shopping for stuff we cant buy in dulag.


but ya so i dont have an address, when we get addresses its a barangay and a name and you just ask around till you find them. but my barangay is marketsite its really close to the beach. (Jim had asked for his address so we could look it up on google earth) so if you want to send anything food with sugar like candy or no bake cake would be great. we dont have an oven we cook with a propane stove and our microwave oven caught on fire. so patay na but ya really just any good snack food that will last a while we dont really have very much like candy or anything like that. so i just realized i forgot the cord for my camera, so its gunna have to be in a few more weeks sorry but time is going by really fast here its crazy i love it and i love you all

              Elder Coontz

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