Staying Alive

This week overall has been pretty average. I can't say anything super out of the ordinary happened. We had some service, and finding and I got a package this week as well.. so I guess it was pretty decent.

Tuesday - 

So on Tuesday, the day started out with our zone meeting. The whole zone met up in our area of Ballesteros. Usually we tend to meet here because we are a little more centrally located  and have a pretty nice church building, especially compared to the mere meeting houses in other areas. Anyways, it was a pretty good meeting and we got to meet the new zone leader Elder Santillian who's replacing Elder Willoughby (gone but never forgotten, RIP). After that, we went throughout the day as normal with all our studies and then ended up giving two lessons. One to the less active Repaje family and one to our investigator Carmelita. The Pascual family that we were going to teach ended up not anywhere to be found, so we did a little finding and handed out a couple pamphlets to some people. We'll probably catch up with them later.

Wednesday - 

We had a lot planned on Wednesday.we had 7 lessons planned and two backup lessons prepared but only ended up teaching 3 lessons. One of which wasn't even planned originally. Also Elder Santiallian was on exchanges with Elder Butler so we got to get to know him a lot better. He's Filipino but is VERY good at English.. He also talked to us about console video games which is very rare to hear about around here. Overall, he seemed like a pretty cool guy. 

Anyways we started our day by giving a lesson to a this man named Brother Salvador. He's like 67 and has two handicap adult children. He also likes to speak a lot of Illicano and not as much Tagalog. Despite of that, we gave him a lesson and it actually felt very good. Following that we gave a lesson to our investigator Flordelita that we hadn't seen in a while. After that, we gave a lesson to a new investigator Junior Tolentino and then finally ended the day at the home of two recent converts. Unfortunately we didn't give a lesson to them though. We just talked for a bit.

Thursday - 

This was also a weird day where we planned a lot but only ended up giving two lessons because people weren't there.. or things took longer than we expected. We ended up giving a lesson to the less active Blanco family in this area called Mabuttal which was pretty far away.  After that we tried to do a little finding but didn't find much success. And then later we gave another lesson to Sister Carmelita, our investigator. That was pretty much that day.

Friday - 

On Friday we did service all morning. From about 8:00-3:00. After that, we then helped the other elders prepare the baptismal font at the church for the baptism but it turns out the font was pumping brown water because of irrigation or something.. so it didn't actually even help. That was the whole day pretty much.

Saturday - 

On Saturday we had a "special" General Priesthood session from about 9:00-11:00 where we reviewed some of the new Sunday schedule stuff that was talked about in conference. They also talked a lot about potentially becoming a stake soon and stuff here in Ballesteros. After the meeting we then had interviews and stuff with President Peterson from 11:00-2:00. After that, Elder Viador and I hurried and went and gave a lesson to our investigator Sherry Ann and then returned to the church to watch the other Elders' baptism in the ocean because the font was gross. After the baptism we all had a dinner appointment with the District President Credo too.

Sunday - 

We woke up early in the morning to go to the house of our investigator Flordelita to bring her to church. When we got there she wasn't there. She must have bailed. Sometimes it's hard to tell if people here are actually interested in your message or just nice.. Also, it's super difficult to get people to keep there commitments. Anways, we then went to church, did our studies, gave a lesson to Sherry Ann and then gave a lesson to Trickia and Rhea. We tried to also give a lesson to Carmelita but she was sick.

Pictures - 

Should include... pictures near the ocean with Elder Viador and our fellowshipper Dan, eating with Elder Santiallian, pictures from finding in Mabuttal (one of which I look super cringey but I don't care because the tree looks cool), our service project, a rip-off mickey mouse product, a shirt and "lego" set I got in a package from home, and the set up of my desk.