I just transferred to a new area called Pagudpud with my new companion Elder Powell. He's 20 and form Tempe, Arizona. This new area is super awesome and easily the most beautiful area I've been assigned in. It's close to the ocean and mountains as well. Our area actually goes through the small mountains and to all the nearby homes. It's very pretty and green and there's also lots of rice fields in the little valleys. This area actually met my expectations of the beauty that I was anticipating in the Philippines and only took me around 15 months to get here. Because of the dense vegetation there's lots of birds and things unlike some of my other areas. Though it's been very beautiful here we've also seen four snakes already. Three were dead and only one was alive. Unfortunately that one snake was pretty big and bright green and slithering across the street. The scariest one of them all those was actually a dead large snake in our area. It was really dark at night and we found this snake that the locals had killed. It was large and we believe it was a cobra. Luckily they found and killed it in the rice field before it got to us. Another interesting thing about this area is that it's super touristy. There's lots of resorts and even white people that we see occasionally.
As for the missionary work in this area it's not as beautiful as the nature here. We actually have a small branch that meets every Sunday in a small meeting house composed of two separate buildings. One is an old home painted white and the other is a building that was constructed later specifically for sacrament. The branch isn't huge and on Sunday we probably had a total attendance of 30 people or so. Both of the speakers were absent and the meeting ended 30 minutes early.The few members that were there were very nice though. The work of the missionaries for the past few months here doesn't seem to have gone super great either. Our area hasn't had investigators attend sacrament for about a month. Our goal right now is to just find and find and find. That's all we did this week actually. We'll get this area progressing sooner or later.
Also today we went on an unexpected trip looking at the cool sights here in Pagudpud. We got a lot of cool pictures and even saw a waterfall. There's also some cool videos but for some reason they won't upload right now. Those might just have to be saved for next week.
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