Week 34 - Dulag/San Roque 2/5/2012

I did get transferred and it has been a long week. transfers are on Fridays so Monday we played pool and went to tacloban to get our money for February.  we ate pizza at shakeys then no money! there was something wrong with all the servers so no money and a bunch of broke missionaries! luckily I'm pretty good at budgeting and still had more than 1000 pesos left. (something he has clearly learned since being in the Phillipines)  then we went back to dulag and had a family home evening at sister yepez's restaurant. it was awesome and they invited a freind and she even made dinner.  like half the branch was there!
i have also decided i want a small set of scriptures for my birthday for 2 reasons: the ones i have are getting old and i dont want them to get destroyed since they are my first ones, and they are heavy.  oh and could  they have my name on them?  but if not thats fine. what i really want are some small hymn books because members here cant buy them and the members here all try to take the ones home from the church so they can sing at home. thats a problem sometimes. sigi
then on tuesday we had a normal day of walking in dulag and taught a few lessons. then wednesday they said the money was in and we could go to Tacloban, so we did, and ate pizza again it was awesome. then that night we got the transfer anouncement right before we went out to a place called luan where a member was going to go work with us. she is awesome she is going to be an amazing missionary. the announcement was kinda weird it said i needed to leave my stuff in the zone leaders apartment, only one other person transfered in tolosa zone, another went home and one is in abuyog. but the other elder is training and the other is a trainee and his trainer went home so i knew where i was going.
Thursday i said good bye to a lot of people taught a few lessons that night then sister Yepez invited us over for dinner before i left.
Friday i took my things to tolosa and they told me i am transferring to San Roque which is just one branch north of dulag and the southern part of my new area is the northern part of dulag kinda weird. i went to the transfer meeting and got my new call letter and i am now senior companion/district leader and follow up trainer. this is going to be fun. (pretty sure that was sarcasm) my new companion is elder Andrada, his trainer was sick so they really didn't do very much. his trainer had to end his mission one transfer early so he could go to manila to have surgery. now i have to finish his training! too bad i just got finished being trained 3 months ago! oh well the lord called me here and I'm ready to serve. from what I've seen this is a really strong branch but they are short on priesthood. the branch presidency is a little short handed the councilors have to work on Sunday even during church sometimes. they can't be there with him to submit the tithing so that's a problem because the clerk is also the 2nd councilor.  i plan to try and find a way to help with that, not totally sure how though. the attendance was 82 on sunday its so different. the building is awesome, ill try to send some pictures its so philipino. the walls inside are made out of woven bamboo, its awesome! and they actually have benches not just chairs. this is going to be awesome!
both saturday and sunday we had people work with us, its so nice. there is one problem with the area, we live in tolosa and we cant stay past 6 pm or there are no rides going back to tolosa!  so im not too excited about that but if the Branch Presient isnt busy we just pay him to drive us on his motor cycle. he is super nice, and he lives in dulag, i used to see him all the time because he works at the court house by the appartment in dulag.
every time they ask me where my last area was my companion always tells them its really far away, lol. but then i tell them and they are like oh so you know Warray so then i get to switch back to Warray Warray from Tagalog. my companion is from close to Bocolod and he speaks a language called ilango its really cool but at least he is really good at Warry so we can still comunicate. he is part of a new progam president Andaya made and has to learn english and i have to learn Tagalog, Warray and Cebuano! it'll be fun, we are actually having an english day right now with our Zone Leaders since one is philipino and the other is tongan. they have to learn english but since i know english i have to only speak tagalog. its really hard, they know a lot more english than i do tagalog, oh well, itll really help and they can help me.
i am in tacloban right now because we had an activity earlier. we played basketball and it rained it was hard because the basketball courts are all outside but still really fun. we have a FHE with the branch president later so i can better get to know him and his family of 9 kids and 4 Grandkids they are awesome.

The Church in his new area.

The Church after a good rain!













The Chapel.

 well that's all for now i love you guys and pray for you always