Monday -
So basically, on Monday we kind of had a little bit of time to do our usual p-day activities. We ended up emailing for a little bit, and getting a little laundry done but that was basically it. After that point, the sky turned pink and it seemed really ominous and calm and then a couple hours later it started to rain pretty hard so we couldn't really go outside very long without getting soaked. Also our power ended up going out pretty early.. so in order to entertain ourselves we started making shadow puppets with our flashlights.. That shows you how bored we became. We're kind of deprived of entertainment out here.. so when it's too rainy for us to even do our laundry or do missionary work, you can imagine how bored we get. Anyways, at like 8:30 the power came back on and then we ended up going to sleep. That night we actually had electricity for a really long time even though it started raining pretty hard.
Tuesday -
Basically the whole night it was raining really hard and it was pretty loud in our apartment, but we had electricity until 5:00 am and it finally went out. And we stayed inside the entire day. It was just really windy and rainy the entire time. We also didn't have working water during that whole time so I just would set the bucket outside to gather water so we could flush the toilet and stuff. During the whole storm we did a few things to stay entertained. We played Uno and other card games, we listened to our church/instrumental music, and elder Butler and I played a drawing game. Basically, in the game we would decide on a character from a movie or something and we'd have 1 minute and 30 seconds to draw them. Once we were finished we'd compare our crappy drawings and it was actually so fun. Neither of us are very good artists so we would just laugh super hard at the awful artwork. That's pretty much all we did other than typical scripture type study as well. It was a long day and dark the whole time.
Wednesday -
So on Wednesday we had to try and withdraw money for the month because we couldn't do it on our p-day because of the typhoon. We ended up traveling about 45 minutes away to Allacapan to withdraw money like normal. When we got there we met up with the other elders and found out that they didn't even have electricity yet so we couldn't really withdraw money. We ended up having to go about another hour away to Magapit to withdraw money. Magapit is so far that it's not even technically in our zone. This whole trip ended up taking up most of the day... so not much was accomplished but by the end of the day we were all tired.
Thursday -
On Thursday we finally got back to a little normal work. It's really nice because it helps the days go by a little faster and even though we walk super far, it's pretty enjoyable.. especially compared to sitting in an apartment ALL day.
On Thursday we had planned to teach about 7 lessons but only ended up teaching 5. The day started out with teaching a lesson to the less active Repaje family, and then giving a lesson to our investigator Sherry Ann. Sherry Ann actually is scheduled for baptism on November 17th, my birthday, which is pretty cool. After that we went to give a lesson to our other investigator Carmelita (who also has a baptism scheduled for the 17th) but she was sick so we just let her be. After that we gave a lesson to our recent convert Joylene too. When we finished that we headed over to the house of our other recent converts Trickia and Rhea but they weren't there because they were off in another town for Day of the Dead. It basically was like memorial day for everyone here. On Nov 1 and Nov 2 everyone just went to their families graves and stuff. Anyways, because we weren't there we ended up trying to go to another less actives' house nearby.. They were also not home.. So we ended up going to a different less active house, also close by. They are the Torintino family and apparently the grandparents are members but not a lot of the grandchildren. We ended up getting a new investigator there named Junior. He's 28 and seemed kind of interested so we're gonna go back and try and teach him the lessons.
After that, we ended up going to a dinner appointment with the other elders. After that, it was pretty late so instead of heading back to our area (which was kind of far away) we just went with the other elders to help them with their last lesson.
Friday -
So Friday is usually kind of a slow day because we have our 3 hour session of weekly planning after we also do our personal study. But anyways.. by the time we ended getting out to work it was like 4:00. So we first went to the less active Corea family but they were busy so we couldn't share a lesson. On our way to our next lesson we stopped by the church where they were having "Sports Fest" which was just a huge district (not stake because the church isn't big enough here) activity with people from all over our area. We were there for a little bit and then headed back out. Once we talked to some people for a bit we went back out to finish 2 more lessons. We gave one to Carmelita and the Pascual family, both of which are investigators.
Saturday -
So on Saturday we spent the first half of the day doing a service project with members of the ward. We ended up actually helping this time unlike during the last service project. Our job was to remove the torn old palm leaf roof and help put better aluminum on it. After that, we ended up giving 3 lessons in the day. We gave one to our investigator Carmelita again, one to the Torintino family (unfortunately Junior, our new investigator, wasn't there), and one to Trickia and Rhea. Also when we got back home we ended up killing like 6 cockroaches at our apartment.. so that's awesome.
Sunday -
So it was fast Sunday and we also had a "brown out." Church was really hot without the electricity. It felt kind of long since I was sweaty the whole time. After that, we ended up teaching 3 lessons. We taught one to Sherry Anne, Carmelita, and Renzlly. We hadn't taught Renzlly for a while because she was in Manila for a little bit and also has been busy so ti was good to teach her again. Also on Sunday I saw a husky which surprised and scared me. It was the first time in a long time that I've seen a decent looking dog that wasn't just a mutt. And it also looked way big compared to the scrawny dirty dogs that are all roaming around here.
Monday -
So far we've just ate breakfast today at the nice Kafe Karlo and have done some emailing.
Pictures -
The pictures should include a couple of pictures of me at this really nice restaurant we found called Remdents (which we can only afford to go to once a week or so on our mission funds: we'll just have to stick to corned beef and rice usually), a picture of the pink sky(which I'm not sure is obvious in the picture) right before the typhoon, a picture of me with a lantern in the dark saying "Who goes 'er?" in a Bristle accent during the typhoon, a picture of scared elder Butler, another picture of Elder Butler sleeping in the "seat reserved for persons with disabilities", a picture of our drawings we made during the storm (mine is on the right, elder Butler's on the left), Elder Butler's gross finger he caught in the fan, and another picture of me spending big money to have a normal meal.
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