WEEK 4
Merry Christmas!
Kumusta,
This last week has been pretty weird. It was Christmas week and so we actually didn't get to teach much. I went on splits with Elder Ilagan this Filipino Missionary who actually knows very good English by far the best English out of any Filipino I have met. We went around teaching his investigators, every lesson that we taught was about Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy so I got pretty good at giving that lesson haha. But it was great I enjoyed it. We have been punted by everyone this week just cause its Christmas and everyone is either busy with that. Alot of people weren't home and Tatay Balagbaggan was drunk one night when we went over then next day we went back and he was working in his bukid. We had our ward Christmas party this week and those are soo different then the ones at home. They last all day, they go from like 3-9ish. There are games, spiritual thoughts and food. It lasted all day and so that's all we did that day. And then on Christmas eve and on Christmas day when we went over to peoples houses they would just feed us and we were barely able to get and lessons in and when we did we either shared Luke 2, or Alma 7 10-12 which are both just about Jesus and his Birth. So none of our investigators were really able to progress this week. Something else that was weird is that on Christmas we had more in actives come then actives. Because all of the Active members went to the Stake center in Santiago for some reason, and some of the in actives came since it was Christmas.
Christmas was great though, anyway. We got feed a lot, pretty much all of the same stuff too. A lot of fruit salad and a lot of Pancid, its like the Cheap party food for the Philippines. I also had my first experience with dog, we ate dog last night. We went over to our recent converts house, named Daniel, and his dad and all of his buds were over and they were all drunk, none are members though. But anyway they kept one telling us to eat dog...so we tried a little bit...it doesn't taste that bad but it is really tough meat. I never want to try it again, just cause of the thought of it. They don't really care to much about dogs here. Dogs are pretty much the rodent of the Philippines, they are gross and they are everywhere. Some are mean, most are just pretty pathetic. we were walking to this members house and these two dogs came out of nowhere barking at us and one came right at me and looked like it was going to bite me so my first reaction was to just...stomp at it & yelled i didn't want to get bit cause all the dogs here carry rabbis and i def don't want to get bit. So he ran away and the other dog ran away too.
Skype was great and I really enjoyed it, the computers here stink and we are always having problems with them when we get here. I am just glad that president lets us do it, cause a lot of other different missions aren't allowed to do it. This week is gonna be another interesting week. The work is gonna be back to normal hopefully. But this week is Rizal day and New Years, Rizal is their national hero, he is like our George Washington. He is the main guy that was able to get the Spanish out of the Philippines. The next it New Years and we are supposed to back in our houses at 6pm new years eve. President said it was okay if we go over to the Zone Leaders house and Celebrate the New Year with them so that is what we are going to do I think. The reason why we have to go in so early is just because there are soo many drunks that night and the dont want us to have a problem with them. So the tell us to go in at 6.
Anyway everything is going great here. Love you all thanks for everything
Ingat po
Elder James
This last week has been pretty weird. It was Christmas week and so we actually didn't get to teach much. I went on splits with Elder Ilagan this Filipino Missionary who actually knows very good English by far the best English out of any Filipino I have met. We went around teaching his investigators, every lesson that we taught was about Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy so I got pretty good at giving that lesson haha. But it was great I enjoyed it. We have been punted by everyone this week just cause its Christmas and everyone is either busy with that. Alot of people weren't home and Tatay Balagbaggan was drunk one night when we went over then next day we went back and he was working in his bukid. We had our ward Christmas party this week and those are soo different then the ones at home. They last all day, they go from like 3-9ish. There are games, spiritual thoughts and food. It lasted all day and so that's all we did that day. And then on Christmas eve and on Christmas day when we went over to peoples houses they would just feed us and we were barely able to get and lessons in and when we did we either shared Luke 2, or Alma 7 10-12 which are both just about Jesus and his Birth. So none of our investigators were really able to progress this week. Something else that was weird is that on Christmas we had more in actives come then actives. Because all of the Active members went to the Stake center in Santiago for some reason, and some of the in actives came since it was Christmas.
Christmas was great though, anyway. We got feed a lot, pretty much all of the same stuff too. A lot of fruit salad and a lot of Pancid, its like the Cheap party food for the Philippines. I also had my first experience with dog, we ate dog last night. We went over to our recent converts house, named Daniel, and his dad and all of his buds were over and they were all drunk, none are members though. But anyway they kept one telling us to eat dog...so we tried a little bit...it doesn't taste that bad but it is really tough meat. I never want to try it again, just cause of the thought of it. They don't really care to much about dogs here. Dogs are pretty much the rodent of the Philippines, they are gross and they are everywhere. Some are mean, most are just pretty pathetic. we were walking to this members house and these two dogs came out of nowhere barking at us and one came right at me and looked like it was going to bite me so my first reaction was to just...stomp at it & yelled i didn't want to get bit cause all the dogs here carry rabbis and i def don't want to get bit. So he ran away and the other dog ran away too.
Skype was great and I really enjoyed it, the computers here stink and we are always having problems with them when we get here. I am just glad that president lets us do it, cause a lot of other different missions aren't allowed to do it. This week is gonna be another interesting week. The work is gonna be back to normal hopefully. But this week is Rizal day and New Years, Rizal is their national hero, he is like our George Washington. He is the main guy that was able to get the Spanish out of the Philippines. The next it New Years and we are supposed to back in our houses at 6pm new years eve. President said it was okay if we go over to the Zone Leaders house and Celebrate the New Year with them so that is what we are going to do I think. The reason why we have to go in so early is just because there are soo many drunks that night and the dont want us to have a problem with them. So the tell us to go in at 6.
Anyway everything is going great here. Love you all thanks for everything
Ingat po
Elder James
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