Monday after i emailed you guys we went and had a district activity, we went Bowling! nice! and it was Elder Cava's birthday, so we ate at burger king.
Tuesday i told you about the dude that we met that was from guam, it turns out he is a free mason! i got really interested and we asked him a bunch of questions about what they do and stuff. they have a symbol for their group and he says the thing on top is the compass, and the thing on the bottom is the square, and the G in the middle is for God. he told us how he is a master mason and stuff, and it reminded me that one time i heard that Joseph Smith was one or something. he told us that the masons started back in the time of Solomon. so if you have any more info about that stuff just email me about it.
Wednesday was good, i went on exchanges with Elder Tino who is from New Zealand, i am going to have to visit that place some day.
Thursday we got some good teaching in, three lessons, but a big problem we have had here is that there is no divorce, so it complicates a lot of stuff for us. We had an Awesome visit from Elder Larry J. Echo, We got to hear some great stories about his conversion, and his life. our favorite was one he told about when he joined the Marines, and the Drill Instructed came in and started yelling at everyone, but when he got to Elder Echo Hawk, he picked up his Book Of Mormon and asked him in a normal voice "are you a mormon?" after the answer he asked "do you believe in this book?" after that he set the book down softly on his bed, and continued on yelling at the other guys. it was a pretty inspiring story.
Saturday we got punted from all of our appointments! no one was home. thankfully the other elders had a family home evening that we were invited to, the FHE was held at the house of a Convert of our mission president, when he was serving his mission back in the day, he baptized them. so that was really cool. After the FHE we returned home and decided to have a little fun since the day had been pretty tough. so we all took turns going outside, breaking open the door open, and screaming at everyone like a Drill Sargent would do, and Whoever started laughing first had to be the new Drill Sargent. easily the funniest moment of this transfer.
Sunday we had to leave church early and go do baptismal interviews, i interviewed a 9 year old girl that new just about everything. then my comp interviewed a lady who was super shy and could hardly keep eye contact for half a second. the good news is that they are both being baptized, the bad news is all the Elders from that ward are being transferred out tomorrow, and probably wont see their baptisms.
Yesterday was pretty good, we had an FHE with a less active family that is finally starting to make progress. i talked to a drunk dude that told me he wants to tell me about all of his dreams in english, i could smell the Alcohol on his breath as he whispered these things to my face hahaha. he told me he was from the province of Bicol and was pretty surprized when i asked him how his Aldo(Day) was. After all that we got the transfer announcements.
today we had some fun this morning calling the zone telling them the transfer announcements, its a pretty stressful week for everyone. and now we are here.
Q and A
Dad asks "how is the mission, investigators, the conference, and how is the food"
well the mission is great, a lot of changes. investigators are doing good, we just need our one investigator to come to church 2 more times and she will be baptized! as for the food, i LOVE the food and i will miss it so much, my favorites are Bicol Express, Ginataang Calabasa (its like squash cooked in coconut milk), bilo-bilo, palitaw, adobo, Mang inasal, and many more..and the conference was awesome.
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