so i only get mail about once a month and that's if it made it. i have gotten a few dear elders but not as many as before of course.
so my investigator who is supposed to be baptized on the 22 went to visit her dad last Sunday and hasn't come back. her phone is broken so we have no idea right now, i'm really hoping she comes back because her friend can't progress without her. we found out she cant read so she is really worried about not being able to be baptized, and i am too. so i emailed tyler a few weeks ago but i'm guessing it was the wrong email or he doesn't check it. (this is a response to his mom saying he should write his brother!) but any, way i have a few things more i want in the package if tyler still has that vertical leap increasing exercise program that would be nice. i need to be able to dunk so people stop bugging me. then i need a cd with the nearer my god to thee cd and a hymn revival. and then a i have an investigator who wants new american music if you could send some that would be nice. and any magic trick stuff i have cards but anything cool would be nice, i have completely run out i try to make up more but they are basically the same.
so this week we really didn't have much happen, really wish it would have but, oh well there is always tomorrow. I've decided that's how i will look at it after the talk in conference where he talked about climbing the volcano with his kids and said don't look at how far you have to go but how far you have come. so tomorrow is nothing compared to the life I've lived and can never be longer than any other day.
we were able to start teaching a family who have basically just been friends, finally! they are the ones who fed us dog. they are really cool people and our zone has a goal, and if we can get 20 new investigators this month we get a prize. and we decided we can get at least one a day with how often we get punted at appointments (I have no idea what that means). we just go talk to people.
so during conference i just kept waiting and waiting for the talk about the kid in japan. i wish i would have know it was like the last talk of conference*. I've never taken notes before during conference and i have 10 pages and i didn't even write half the stuff that stuck out to me. the mission is an amazing thing and i really want to do it again some day. i cant believe I've been gone for so long already, i swear i just got here like 2 days ago its crazy how fast time goes when in the service of God.
so i really need to get these letters and presents out to kamrie and chad and start finding christmas presents for everyone. not sure yet, though but ill figure out a way to get it there.
so right now i really feel like i want to stay here in dulag until they get a building but i worry the Lord will want something else. but i know it will be the right thing if i leave.
so my time is starting to run short since i pay by the minute here its interesting to think I'm like wow that's a lot of money when in reality I'm not even spending a dollar but i can buy a days worth of food for about $2.50 its ridiculous i think i am going to retire here when i get older
so the other day i had people asking me for my full name so they can add me on FB so we can talk when i get home and a couple members want to give me their phone number so i can practice my warry after my mission. I'm like wow i just got here, but it seems like with the way things are going its not far at all, and I'm not sure what all to do all the time yet, and i just hope i can learn it all in a short 2 years. but anyways the language is great, I'm starting to learn some tagalog too because people assume we speak it. but then we just tell them we only speak warry and a little cebuano and they usually switch, but not always so its fun. but any ways thank you for your prayers and your support i love you all.
oh and i forgot Wednesday we had a service project cutting grass for an investigators new house. but no lawn mower here, just use sundangs which is basically a machete. it was awesome! but i got some really bad blisters that started bleeding but I'm ok now. and i have some weird rash thing on my arm no one seems to know what it is, they just say put alcohol on it. so i do, its amazing, that's their answer for everything here.
*The reference he made to conference is something our church holds twice a year. Called General Conference it is a Sunday when the leaders of our church speak to us from Salt Lake via satellite.We actually get to watch from the comfort of our home. It is a great time to be uplifted spiritually. If you want to hear the story he is talking about you can listen here. He tells a story of a missionary that served in the same mission as his father. If you didn't know Jim also served a mission in the Philippines.
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