[Introduction]
Hey everyone!! Happy New Years!!
I hope everyone is doing awesome, sorry about last week's email being so short. Had a lot to do. This week, I am going to jump a few days.
[Monday - December 23, 2019 - Day 69]
Got woken up in the middle of the night from Elder Bybee tampering with my fan. I guess it was making too much noise. We got up and went to the church to play Basketball for exercise. I think my iPen 6 is about to die. Today, we had exchanges and I think it went really well. Got paired up with Elder Mcnamee and I took him to Batangas II and Housing. Took a bus to Mariveles for a dinner appointment. I tried Tofu for the first time, Its okay if you drench it in soy sauce. The family gifted me a new bag, very sweet of them. Slept at another Elder's place in Mariveles so that we would be close to District Council tomorrow.
[Tuesday - December 24, 2019 - Day 70]
I slept okay, got up and watched the Elders play Basketball. All the bakeries are closed for the holidays. Merry Christmas Eve by the way!! Ate at this restaurant, forgot what it was called but they charge you more if you don't finish your rice. Kind of crazy. Elder Mcnamee showed me this amazing talk called "Safety or the soul" by Jeffery R. Holland and I recommend anyone to listen to it. My iPen 6 finally died, they pretty much last as long as an actually Apple product.
[Wednesday - December 25, 2019 - Day 71]
My Pday was actually today, Mission President changed the Pday to today because of Christmas, thought it was nice. We woke up early to open our gifts from our parents. Got a lot of good stuff, I got some scripture markers, stapler, a pillowcase that says "I love my missionary", I love you too. I also got pencils, sticky notes, mints, Twix which is my favorite candy bar. Christmas socks, and a pillow. Went to this computer shop called "Ground Zero". It was an interesting experience. Most of the computers have major issues. For the rest of the day, we pretty much had appointments with members and ate a lot of food. Towards the evening, I got my first haircut out in the field. We were about to head home when it started to rain hard and I got drenched. I bought myself a speaker and some Lemon Royal (A really good soda here in the Philippines, compare it to orange crush) for my Kabahay for the gift exchange. My Kabahay gave me a bag of fake bugs, thought it was funny.
[Thursday - December 26, 2019 - Day 72]
We had a service project today, we worked at a charcoal farm. Not sure what to really call it. We mostly just picked up charcoal and fill up bags so that they could sell them. Took some pictures with a puppy, baby chick, and a duck. Went to this place called Alion for work. I still don't really like that place. Kind of an interesting story, so me and Elder Bybee were teaching this lady that we found and I got to start bare my testimony when she stops me. She looks over to Elder Bybee and says "Wala Inges" (Pretty much means, no English). The funny part was that I was speaking Tagalog. I'm honestly not sure if I was just mispronouncing words or what but afterwards, me and Elder Bybee started laughing about it.
[Friday - December 27, 2019 - Day 73]
Today, we did exchanges with the Zone Leaders. Had my first Filipino companion (Elder Insik) and it was fun testing out my Tagalog skills. I am still terrible at it haha. We went to the store and picked up some supplies to cook lunch with. Cooked chicken adobo. It started pouring again but this time with lightning and thunder. It was really awesome to hear.
[Saturday - December 28, 2019 - Day 74]
Slept with the aircon, it was so cold and nice haha. We got up and got ready to go to Limay so I could pick up Elder Bybee. After that, we went to Jollibee's for breakfast. I got their pancakes and honestly, they were way good. 10/10 would have them again. Went to a ton a places for work today. First stopped by Housing, then traveled through this town called Mendoza. then to this other place called Hardened where we met a bunch of kids. They followed us the entire time until we left Hardened. Our last destination was Capital. Kind of a busy day.
[Sunday - December 29, 2019 - Day 75]
Church today was good, got to pass the sacrament. They held a mini Primary program and the children sung all these different songs. The funny part was that their microphone speaker system was broken so all the words sounded like they were behind a closed door. Not much to talk about today but I got some pictures.
[Closing]
Thank you for reading my email, I love you all. Please take care and I'll update you all next week.
Service project in the area. Helped shovel Charcoal into bags
Us with members having lunch at their Beach house
When we were doing our service project, their were a lot of animals around.
This puppy being my favorite! Two of the cutest things ever... from Mom :)
Me and my Companion with the people we were helping with the Charcoal.
The bird crawling down Patrick's back.
Bird on the shoulder and holding a duck...
Filipino companion for the day during transfers..
The neighborhood they were walking around in..
The kids that followed them around all day as they went around to there
appointments..
A few members in the Ward they are in..
Patrick said this is the shortest Filipino yet he has met.
He is also Patrick's age, 19...
Patrick got to go on a hike on his p-day to a place called 5 fingers.
The lady with them is a member that went with all the Missionaries as a
tour guide. They went near sunset since that was the best time to see it and I would
say so! What a beautiful place and site to see.. I'm sure the pictures don't even do it
justice. I'm thankful for the Sister member that went with them and took these pictures
and shared them with us..
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