I'm still here in Munoz but my new companion is Elder Bellen! He was the first real friend I met in this country and the nicest person in the whole world so I'm totally okay with it.
Monday
We had FHE with a family, he
is our District President. His house is way nice, and they have a perfect
family. The oldest is a 15 yr old girl who is really. Their 2nd kid is a 14 yr old and, their youngest is a 10 yr old boy. Any way we played this really great
game called Sino ang Palaka (Who's the Frog?). It’s the best game ever; remind
me to teach you when I come home
Tuesday
was a good day, we just worked like
normal , but we got punted a lot so we visited this less active member who
lives an eternity away from everyone and his house doesn't have electricity.
When we stopped by he said "Elders, why haven't you been here in such a
long time?" I didn't have the heart to tell him it's near impossible to
get to his house. We ate dinner (na naman) at a members house and
then got the transfer announcements at the computer shop. I'm staying here and
my new companion is Elder Bellen; Elder Garcia is getting transferred to Camiling
Zone
Wednesday
Transfer announcements! We met in
the Munoz chapel and announced the transfers, almost all the companionship's got
split up. E Garcia spent the afternoon packing his stuff and we went out and
taught when the weather was a bit cooler. He said goodbye to a lot of people
and most of them were sad he was leaving. Then we visited one of the
families and they refused to believe he was transferring.
We even took a picture and he said goodbye and he was gone. They didn't even
really care he was leaving, and I told them they would regret it when they knew
for sure he was gone
Thursday
This morning we got on a bus and
went to Cabanatuan for transfers, it was great to see the missionaries again.
Elder Gifford bought chips and salsa, which I haven’t had in almost two years,
it was so good! Once Elder Bellen showed up we had lunch at the church and went
back to our area. We only visited a few people (and one birthday party) because
Elder Bellen was feeling really sick. We got home and he was basically
super-saiyan because his fever was so high so I gave him a blessing and he went
to sleep.
Friday
So after weekly planning today,
President Martino called me and said that a new missionary in my zone was having serious
problems adjusting to life as a missionary, so he wanted me to work with him
and help him out because he and I are the only foreigners in the zone
(there's a girl from Fiji, does that count?) So Elder Bellen worked in Guimba
and I worked in Munoz .
Saturday
Elder Bellen and I worked
together today, it was tons of fun. We went to LingLingay and got punted a lot,
we only taught one lesson. So I took him to a bunch of different families, and
we ended the day with dinner at Brother Baldovino's house. Elder Garcia came
here this afternoon because he was pinayagan ni President (I can’t think of the
word for that. It means president let him come here to munoz). His companion
was a temporary elder who went to India on his mission but his visa expired
because the Indian government doesn't like mormons so their visas are only good
for one year. He doesn’t know a word of Tagalog, but why should he, right? For
now he's just here until his visa gets accepted, but nobody knows when that
will happen.
Sunday
We had District Conference today,
and I got to see President Martino, which was great. It was a very...
enlightening conference. I didn't hear anything new from the speakers but I learned
a lot. And we didn’t go to Linglingay for sacrament because of the District
Conference and so we were really early to all of our appointments. We stopped to see a family and they were sad they didn't say goodbye to Elder Garcia
but they got over it. We spent a long time there talking to them because they
bought us a snack. After that we had a dinner appointment with another family, we ate sinigang na baboy, it was so delicious! And their anak was super
kulit, just like always
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