I’m trying to upload pictures but it’s
not really working. I am getting a few of them though. Look in the folder
labeled "Cabanatuan"
So on Tuesday I worked in Bongabon
City, another city in our zone, with Elder Masuela. His companion and Elder Abuan
had a meeting in Cabanatuan. it was cool but Elder Masuela was kind of lazy. We met the ZLs at their house and got to Bongabon
at about 8:15am. He slept until 11:30 then we ate lunch and laid around until
2:30. At 2:30 he took a shower, and then we went to work. We were in the middle
of one lesson when the ZLs called and said they were finished with their
meeting and we needed to meet them at their house. So then we went to another
less active and sat there for about 15 minutes before we left. By the time we
got to the ZL's house and Elder Abuan and I went back to Gobaldon, we basically
had no time to work
Wednesday it rained again. It was
like hurricane type rain, the van we were in had a hard time getting home. We
went to Palayan in the morning to hear announcements from the ZLs about the
meeting on Tuesday, and then we had to go to Cabanatuan again to withdraw our
support money. We didn’t get home until 4pm. I worked with Elder Rabino (from
Davao) in our area. He’s a super new missionary and so he basically just
followed me around while I taught.
Thursday we went to Bugnan (across
the river) and RJ, our branch mission leader just preached to everyone we saw. He
reminded me of one of those guys you see standing on a soapbox in the park. He
does that a lot when he works with us because he misses his mission a lot.
On Friday we visited tatay, one of
our less actives who had a stroke and can't walk very well.
Saturday we went to Bugnan again and
ate with a Family for lunch and then another Family for dinner. Coming home was
really cool, too. We got to the river a little bit late and nobody was there
with a balsa to take us across. So then Harold (the guy from last week’s
story) totally did something dad would do:
Every night, the guys who nagtatawid just
leave their mga balsa (the raft) on the beach until the next
morning. So we are on the side of the river with no way to get across, and the
last thing we want to do is stay in Bugnan again. So Harold went to one of the
rafts, untied one of the tires, and sat us down on it. Then he pulled us
across the river. A few times he was actually floating as well because the
river was so deep, a few times he accidentally kicked me
Sunday we didn’t do a lot of work,
mostly just meetings and paperwork. Then we ate dinner at Nanay’s house, she’s
the lady who washes our clothes for us. Afterwards we were going to teach them
but her grandchildren were watching Sleeping Beauty so she asked if we could
wait until it’s over to teach her. Elder Abuan was falling asleep while we waited;
he had a really bad headache. So we came home around 8:30.
This morning we had a zone activity
and went to some garden place with a bunch of statues of Jesus. I enjoyed being
with the other missionaries, but I would have enjoyed it more if I was a
Catholic
Below are pictures of Elder Williams apartment. He said it is the nicest place he has lived but hates that he does not have running water.
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