It has been a pretty decent week. Overall, it was a pretty typical week except for we had two baptisms on my birthday on Saturday. There's not many ways to celebrate your birthday in the mission field in the Philippines but a couple baptisms isn't so bad.
This was a typical Tuesday that consisted of district council and our studies in the morning and then work later in the day. We planned to give/teach six lessons but only ended up giving two of them. Both of which were to our investigators that were getting baptized later in the week. The rest of the time in the day was probably used up while shuffling around trying to teach the people we planned for, but not finding any of them at their homes.
Wednesday -
On Wednesday we had district exchanges. This meant Elder Butler and I just swapped companions and had to lead our areas. So I was with Elder Magadia the whole day. It was a little different because he actually speaks okay English so it wasn't super hard to communicate the whole time, but also during lessons he acted like he didn't know how to do missionary work because it was my turn to "lead the area".. which I guess he thinks means to let the American person (that doesn't know much Tagalog) do whole lessons without much assistance. I also planned the whole day. We ended up traveling super far to Palloc (the end of my area) and tried to give lessons to some of our investigators. I developed a plan to teach 8 people for the day, but no one was there. Even the people that we placed as back-up plans weren't there. We ended up giving a lesson to a random member we found, and to this lady who's the aunt of someone we planned for. She didn't really seem to interested. Also later, we found two new investigators. We didn't really have to go out seeking them just cause they were like "Hey! We love Mormons! Come back later." It was like a free investigator. Overall, it was a long day with a lot of walking and not a lot of talking.
Thursday -
We had our weekly planning on Thursday and our personal study which ended up taking most of the morning. We ended up getting out at 3:00ish but only ended up giving two lessons. The first lesson we gave was to the Mendoza family (the people that said "come back we love Mormons") and it was a pretty good lesson, except for the wife several times began breastfeeding in the middle of the lesson. It's a little difficult for me to try and share the gospel when something like that is going on, but we managed. I think that's a pretty normal type of behavior here though. After that we also taught another lesson to some recent converts as well. Also, near the end of the day there was this little girl that only spoke Illicano, and was trying to play some patty-cake type game with me even though I didn't understand her. It was fun and cute and all until like halfway through the game she turned around and threw up a little, and then we just continued right afterwards.
Friday -
We did service from 8:00-4:00. After that we did our studies and had a "dinner appointment" afterward. The dinner appointment ended up being a little soup with bananas, rice ball things, potato textured something, and "Orbeez." I call them "Orbeez" because they were that texture and I don't exactly know what they were. I think they were just some type of jelly. The soup was also scolding hot. So that's great too, and that really ended up being the day.
Saturday -
Saturday basically consisted of one lesson with our investigator Jessa Blanco in the morning, and the rest of the day was revolving around our two baptisms. For our baptisms we first had our investigator Sherry Ann Unciano baptized. She's a 15 year old girl that took lessons from some sister missionaries recently but never seemed to progress. Randomly, she started coming back to church by herself and we taught her all the lessons. Our other investigator was Sister Carmelita Bunnao. She's 40 years old and we've been teaching her from the start. Some of her kids were already members so we just had to convert her too. It was a good set of birthday baptisms. Elder Viador did the baptizing in the ocean because the faucet in the baptismal font pumped dirty water from irrigation or something.
Also, later at night Elder Butler made "fajita's" for dinner since it was my birthday and all. They don't have tortillas here so we ended up using some type of Filipino roll. Overall it was pretty good and tasted like normal fajitas except for the whole bread thing. Also it was super expensive for him to make, especially on a missionary fund. I guess we'll have to stick to corned beef and rice.
Sunday -
We had church and studies and a couple of lessons. That was all
Pictures -
Should consist of... pictures at a dinner appointment, service (some intentionally cringey of course), pictures from the baptism, and the dirty baptismal font water.
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