sorry this email is so late, we went to a waterfall today as a Zone, I'll send a bunch of pictures. Also on the walk to the computer shop just now a random filipino waiting in line at a street vendor gave me a high five, more than likely because I'm white. It was pretty cool.

This has been an incredible week. It has been so wonderful to see the people who are prepared to hear  what we have to offer. I always feel on Friday mornings during weekly planning that we haven't done nearly enough work during the week  to be planning for the next week, but Sunday evenings we count up how much work we really have done and its amazing. This has easily been the best week we've ever had. I feel like Sunday mornings at church is the time when we see how effective our work has been for the last week, shown by how many less actives and investigators come to church. Yesterday three less active families we have been visiting for weeks now finally decided to come back to church. We also had 5 investigators come to church, which is the most we've ever had. Our attendance this week was roughly 120, and average is about 90. This week we have a baptism, and another one is planned for next week. Both of them are young men who have incredible faith. One of them has been taught by missionaries since April, because  he had problems before with the word of wisdom, especially when he was with his friends. But every time we visit him he tells us how  he wants to stop and be baptized so he can serve a mission. We also found an incredible amount of new investigators, and each of them are truly anxious to learn more, and not just being polite by letting us visit them. Establishing credibility and trust with our new investigators is actually relatively easy, most people, if not all, have some sort of belief or faith in Jesus Christ.

The waterfall was so cool, we met in Bamban, an area where two elders work (everyone calls it Outer Darkness because the work there is pangit talaga and the leadership is just as bad.) After all the missionaries arrived we loaded into the back of a big truck and climbed a mountain for about twenty minutes, then a twenty minute hike. I've seen a lot of cool places, but this waterfall rivals Upper Palisades. 

I miss snow so much. I wish more than anything I could go snowboarding right now. But I'm not within 1000 miles of a place where I could do that. Thanks for sending the redvines, I also miss those a lot. I absolutely love it here and actually wouldn't mind living here if I could find a job that paid dollar for dollar what it would pay in America, but its nice to see things that are native to america.

I've been trying to get pictures of my mafia neighbor, but its difficult. I'll send some as soon as I can.