It's pretty sweet. The weather is freezing ... mountains of concrete tiring ... but it's all pretty gravy here. I was senior last transfer , too , momma but I'm following up someone whose trainer just went home. He's way nice and humble , and things have been awesome so far. He teaches some false doctrine sometimes... haha ... but it's okay. We're correcting it. I've been a bit inspired here to change my teaching style. People in Baguio are... richer ... and thus a bit more educated , and lot more prideful .. ha. Nobody is outside , because it rains 24/7 , and so talking to people is a bit more challenging. We still get it done , tho. The zone leaders tell me there's a package for a certain Elder Puti (white.) so I look forward to getting that today. SALAMAT MOMMA! Everything is going pretty awesome here in Baguio , though. ha. Not too much to report on. Like I said last time , they very recently took over the old Assistant to the President's area as well to their own ... so I have had the fun time of trying to figure out everything in this area and where our boundaries are ... ha. My companion's trainer didn't like ever tell him anything and so anytime I ask a question he's like ... hindi ko alam (I don't know.) so. yeah. It's a learning experience , and they had like zero investigators , so that's been another hurdle. I'm enjoying it a lot , though. My first area was poor na poor... just no money at all. Second area was a bit more rich , but really nothing , and Baguio is money city , for the most part. I prefer the poor. People are a lot more humble and willing to listen. People here don't really care too much for anything other than work , so it's been trying to break down their barriers. The investigators with baptismal dates they actually had ... shouldn't have had an IBD ..ha. They're not married and are living together. Soo.. that's been my life for the past week. On Saturday we decided to go exploring into this little part of a barangay we hadn't yet been down , which took us to an insanely muddy slope with ended up in us getting crazy muddy ... but it was still fun. Got 5 new investigators , too , and ended up talking to a lit of more humble people there.
The ward here is way way organized .. it's like american. Really , it's weird. They actually have opening exercises before priesthood classes , and they encourage members to give referrals and do home teaching haha. This is the first time I've seen that. Some members are pretty rich (by filipino standards) which is way awesome for us. One member is treating us to lunch in about an hour. Also she lent us a book a week ago , which I read called "evidences of the true church" by dennis brown .. it's pretty cool. Mostly about what happened after the death of all the apostles and then his section about logic. Everything else I either pretty much knew or yeah. But it's a fast read of maybe an hour if you want to go find it. I'm way excited to see what book[s] are in the package. I have been incredibly addicted to reading here. I'm not sure what will happen after the mission. But I've finished so President Monson's bio , Believing Christ , The book of mormon [almost twice] , most of the gospels , our search for happiness , started Jesus the Christ , two missionary little hand guide things that other missionaries had , and some other books. Reading is dope.
Maybe next week I'll talk more about my week when it becomes less hectic and actually has more lessons and stuff ... ha. We were able to pull out 25 lessons , but oh man it's exhausting walking around and around and around for hours and hours and hours and climbing and climbing and climbing because they have no investigators , haha. We just teach anyone we find on the street that will listen. I wish I could open an area in the mountains ... that'd be way fun. Tagalog , as I said , is pretty much set at this point , so it's fun to shock the people here every day. There's a lot of "Joe's " (everyone who is white is automatically american , and called joe) and none speak tagalog. SPEAKING OF WHICH.
There's a white guy whose a member who lives close to us. I met him last week. His name is Herb Meadows (how much whiter does a name get). His wife was born in utah ... is filipino .. and speaks no tagalog ahaaha. Neither of them do. They have two kids here who attend college and speak both tagalog and english of course , and the wife is not a member but the husband is. He's a bit less - active tho. It was hysterical talking to him ... because I'm serious - JUNE! - he is Mr. Culp's twin. He's way nice , and talks real fast , and just has a ton of knowledge about everything. Especially the DI's ... he says he goes back to America once a year and hits up 16 different DIs in Utah in one day. Nuts. But I've made it a goal to baptize his family. We will be teaching in English ... which means only me ... ahaha , weird. I can't teach in english. That's a whole different ball game.
Also there's this woman we gave a book of mormon to , that didn't like us at first , but we keep buying from her small tindahan (small window store / thing where they sell snacks and stuff ... they're everywhere in the filipines) and she loves us now ,ahaha. The Philippines is awesome. It was baad talking to the american , though , keeps making me think I want to move back here as soon as I can. His area , is literally so much like CT. Small , but small hills and quiet and lots of trees. Dang. Living in Baguio would be way sweet. That's crazy far away though.
Fun Fact : I'm in the old area of John Bytheway ... he was a Baguio Missionary way back when. He baptized a couple of the active members here. Also there's this CRAZY RICH woman whose a member named Sister Ebys. She owns ... a lot of stuff. But they tell me just take a cab to her house on Sundays , even if shes not there , they'll let you in and feed you until you can't eat anymore. I'm excited.
Favor: Please send me nutritional statistics for rice and MSG (there's a lottttt of MSG in the food here.) My stomach continues to grow. despite the ridiculous exercise every day. We'll see what happens.
I think that's all for this week. I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
buhbye.
-eWhite
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