30 Days left!

Hello!

I Know. In 30 days I’ll be in the states and honestly that frightens me. haha.  I bought some souvenirs this week!  Also I have a few questions:

1. Do I need to bring home any shirts , clothes or anything? Like what if I come home with two white shirts and just my suit and leave everything else here

Tag-ulan started this week. Except in the mornings we hardly see the sun anymore. On Tuesday we were eating at a birthday party and the rain came down like a hurricane for about 40 minutes then stopped. By the time we got to Kuya Baldos house, the rain picked up again so malakas I didn’t think we would make it home. On Wednesday we had DDM in Guimba at 10:00am. at 9:00 E Cope, E Fort, and I held a Leadership Training Meeting with E Kunz and E Weimer because the're both new District Leaders. most of what we taught them was the things E Neilson taught us back in February. We ate lunch at Jollibee (na naman). We taught Sister Montero (our recent convert) but itwas no good because her kids were having a circus during our discussion. Her bunso cried and cried and cried because I wouldnt give him any money. On the way home we saw the Francisco Family and they invited us to dinner. Also today was E Bellens birthday. I never in a million years thought my mission would even be close to ending. 30 days from now, I'll be at the mission home getting ready to leave. Patay talaga. 

Its been about 6 months that I've been teaching a Sister  the LA who married a Joe, and I'm just now beginning to understand her concern. She doesn't know how to help her kids embrace the gospel again, and she feels its unfair if she comes back into activity and her kids won't follow suit. She wants them all to come back sabay-sabay. On the bright side, we saw the a Family I really love today! They've been in the bukid for the last two months and haven't come to the bayan so I was super excited to see them again.
1. The Lord will do anything and everything to continue His work. He truly cares about all His children, He truly directs the affairs of His kingdom, and He has provided for our salvation.

2. Filipinos prioritize other people before themselves like no other people in the world. The Family got home maybe 2 hours before we stopped by, and before we left they gave us mangoes and probably 1 kilo of bigas. They don't have any kuryente in their house and they have to cross street to get water, ganoon sila kahirap. And somehow they still find it in their hearts to give us food without us even mentioning a thing.

Friday morning I woke up and said "Sleep has not yet fled from my eyes. I need to walk around before I pray so I don't fall asleep again." So I walked outside and the crazy guy who shouts all day and night walked past our house and began shouting. I was so afraid that he saw me and was coming to the house that my heart skipped a beat. But on the bright side, it helped me wake up. E Batoy and I worked together ,and E Cope worked in Guimba 3 because they had a baptismal interview. We couldn't teach anybody because everyone was at MYC in Pangasinan, nakaka-bad trip!

Saturday we worked in Franza and saw our branch on their way home from MYC, so they gave us a ride back to the bayan. This afternoon we got punted a bunch, ngunit ganoon talaga. 

ok cool. so i decided i want to run Cross Country at BYU after I am finished in Oregon.  but their cross country team is incredibly fast. ok we're out of time. talk to you next week. i love you!

 

Mothers DAY!!!

hii. Sorry we're late we couldn’t find a shop that was open because today is elections and elections here are kind of dangerous so a lot of places are closed

do the days go by fast for you guys? I sometimes kneel to pray at night and say "how can the day be over already? i just did this!"  This Saturday I only have 30 days remaining. 

This was such a lazy week once Elder Bellen left. I had no desire to do anything at all. On Tuesday I followed the Munoz 1 Elders around in their area while we taught. At one member family, we convinced them I couldn’t speak a word of Tagalog when we got there. After the opening prayer I took the lead during the lesson and they realized they'd been fooled. That evening we had dinner at a members house and printed off the transfer announcements, my new companion is Elder Cope. On Wednesday we had transfer announcements with the zone and then ate lunch at Kitchen West. For most of the day Elder Elep packed up his stuff, and we played Uno while waiting for him. Then we ate dinner at Nanay Deveas home and the power went out. Again. On Thursday, the Forts took us to Cabanatuan to get our new companions. Elder Cope came all the way from Paniqui, so I got to spend most of the morning at the Stake Center. Most of my time there was spent talking to Elder Amante, he is the missionary who replaced me in Gabaldon. Around 1:00 we made our way back to Munoz. Elder Cope is way good at teaching. He is so good at the Bible I was hanga sa kanya. (impressed) On Friday basically everyone said to me "why haven’t you been coming to our house lately?" because I was in Munoz 1 all week. On Saturday, a member worked with us and around 5:30 he realized his key to his motorcycle was lost, so we re-traced our steps that we'd taken the entire day and didn’t find it. The next morning, he came to our apartment and said "I forgot yesterday that this is an old model, almost any key will start it." So then we all had a good laugh about it and he took his motor again. 

22 months.

cooking eggs in the mission home.

Elder Williams and President Martino

Hello! I am glad she took pictures of me at ZLC. I also want you and dad to come here so we can meet Pres and Sis Martino.   It doesn’t matter when you come either way as long as you meet them.  I will just skype on P-day like last time. I'll try to skype around 9am our time, but I'll email you as soon as I get to the internet shop. 

This was a pretty good week. Last Monday we went to PhilRice and had a tour, it was one of those things that makes me wish you were here because you'll never see something so cool. We stopped at the museum and learned about the different types of rice and the way it’s farmed and the new technologies they have for rice farming. We also learned the Philippines can only produce about 70% of the rice that it needs as an entire country, roughly 30% of the rice is imported from other places. So PhilRice's objective is to get enough rice to make a giant storage if something bad ever happens they have rice to spare. This week was also ZLC, but this was the first time that Sister Missionaries have ever attended, so now it’s called Mission Leadership Council. President Martino talked to us about the Apostasty and Restoration.  We spent the night at the mission home, and the next morning (Wednesday) we went back to Munoz. By the time we got home I was feeling terrible and had a bad fever, so I just took some medicine and went to sleep. I woke up around 6:30 and couldn’t stand being in the house any longer, so we taught one lesson and then came home. On Thursday I woke up and was feeling good enough to work, but while we were working I felt terrible and my mind wasn't working the right way. President Martino also called us and said he needed some more information for the marriage he would be performing this weekend for us, so we spent time running back and forth trying to get it all together. On Saturday we had the wedding and baptism, President Martino married the couple that we are teaching and the wife was baptized right after.   After the baptism we had a small reception and then went to Tara Mindos (a swimming pool/ resort) and the branch fed us lunch. Elder Bellen spent most of the day getting together some last minute things before he left, so Theody (a branch missionary) and I played Uno for awhile. Then we met the Munoz  Elders for some ice cream, and then went home. On Sunday we went to church, and Elder Bellen was picked up around 1:30. I worked with the Munoz 1 Elders the entire day, and when we got home I didn't know what to do. I spent most of the evening walking around the house wondering why the time goes by so fast. 
My time is up!  LOVE YOU