12-16-12

haha. Dad would love it, but when we come back I'll take him to some of the most frightening places in my mission. I would take you and Kenz and Kelsie to the best places and the things you would really enjoy, but I would only show dad the best parts. But he's right we do need to come back.

I can't take you there because I dont know if you could handle it.. Yeah I'll email on Monday and Wednesday  so we can get on skype and stuff. 

Mon 10

WE were supposed to go biking today at CLSU, but we called the missionaries in San Jose zone and invited them to come with us, since CLSU is basically the border of our zones, and they got there way before us. So the bikes were all taken when we showed up and didn't get to go biking.. Instead we went to PCC again and got some ice cream. Then we emailed and bought a few groceries and developed some pictures.. After that, we got done fairly early and went home and just laid around for the rest of p-day. I don't know why, but I ALWAYS am tired before I leave for work after lunch, but NEVER tired at the same time on P-day. I just need a nap, but it never seems to happen. I'm just tired all the time. We finished the day with FHE at the Oneza Family, it was way fun. Oh BTW I'm in a tri-panionship with elder Keene because his companion left yesterday.

Tue 11

Today we worked in Elder Keene's area today, so I don't really know where we went. But around 5:30, the APs texted us and said "Transfer announcements are in" so we went to the computer shop and got them, Elder Garcia is my companion for six more weeks! I'm so happy about that, I really like him. Then we made a fake transfer report that we used on Wednesday. After dinner we went to this old less active who is really rich and ate dinner. He told us how his house help makes him coffee every morning, and so we told him it was bawal (taboo)  and he said 'wait, but almost everyone drinks coffee. Even CATHOLICS drink coffee.' So we tried to explain that you can't do it just because everyone else does it. After planning we called the other zone leaders and asked about transfers in their area, there wasn't very many people who got transferred this time..

Wed 12

We met at the Munoz Chapel this morning and did transfer announcements. I announced the fake one and everybody believed it, it was so funny! They were all shocked at what happened, because we mixed up the transfer’s a lot. Then we had Elder Keene give the closing prayer, but when we all kneeled to pray, he said "Um.. Before I pray, I'm going to announce the real transfers.." Then everyone kind of shouted and were annoyed we had fake transfers, but that always happens at every transfers, so I don't know why they were surprised.. This afternoon we went to some place I've only been a few times and basically didn't teach anyone. It's weird teaching with three people.. I really like elder Keene and Elder Garcia, but a tri-panionship is the worst way to punish a missionary. I feel like I'm back at the MTC with Frearson and Stokes

Thu 13

Transfer day! We took elder Keene to Cabanatuan early in the morning , it was great to see all the other missionaries on this side of the mission, and just eat food and relax for awhile. As soon as he got his new companion, we went back to Munoz and elder Garcia and I went to work. We taught this old less active nanay, she's really funny and wants to do the right thing. 

Fri 14

This is the only area I've had that I haven't hated weekly planning! Every week it’s so simple! Teaching today was pretty great, we taught this less active today that we've had no progress with for weeks, but she came to church but last Sunday, so now we teach her a few times a week. During this one lesson,  A Family (some recent converts) told us about how sick Nanay has been but she just kept praying and then they had no money but she didn't complain, and then when it seemed like she wouldn’t live another day, her neighbor just came over and gave her some money to buy medicine and her daughter sent some money overseas and everything was good. I've taught a lot of spiritual lessons, but this was probably the best lesson ever

Sat 15

We went to Linglingay today, that really far area. Elder Fort is helping us to get organized and hopefully they'll get a branch out there someday, but we'll see what happens. We didn't teach anyone because the entire barangay had a meeting. So EVERYONE attended. Just our luck. Then we came back to the bayan and nobody was home there, either. I don’t know why but this week and last week we haven't been able to teach anyone.

Sun 16

Church was great today; a ton of less actives came today! But I feel like none of the active members were there, not even 100 people came to church today. We taught two recent converts today about temples, because yesterday they had a temple trip and they both did baptisms for the dead and had lots of questions. Also we talked to a part member family and set a baptism goal date for their daughter. It was postponed because her father had a WoW problem, but he talked to the branch president and we got it sorted out

so I'll just talk to you next week. I love you!

Elder Williams