SO! I enjoy getting all these emails telling me how boring my emails are , hahaha. I'm sorry!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not exactly bungy jumping or free scaling mountains all day. I walk on cement up and down hills and talk to people about spiritual things , hahaha. I'll try to add humurous things in more , but now that the culture has stopped being so shocking for me ... nothing seems funny anymore. I will say this though. When filipinos turn pages... it's not like regular people in which we find the corner or at least a side and turn it slowly. It's a pinch and turn... page by page. Or you can also choose the grab the spine technic , and brush the pages with your thumb until you find the page ... both work. The filipino style is to spasmically open to any page , then continue to use all 5 fingers in a spider-like pinching technic of the whole page and turn page by page ... even if you're 300 pages off ... they'll go page by page crinkling every single one. It's hysterical , but at the same time I hate lending out my book of mormon or bible or stuff to have them read. I must first find the page for them , then give it to them. And then , even sometimes , they'll change the page and flip back. Usually when searching for a page they'll over pass it by like 50 pages ... then go 40 pages in the opposite direction ... then 30 pages back in the first direction ... until them finally find it. That's humor.
So. My weeks been pretty good. We actually just got back from bowling again. I got 5 strikes and a spare in my last game. ARE YOU PROUD OF ME?! I blow the filipino minds here with my hook. Though I only bowled a 156. That's three weeks in a row now we've gone bowling , and I'd go every week of my mission if I could haha. It was just us and the Quezon Hill Elders , which is Elder Matthews [phil/aus] and Elder Abarte. Elder Tan and Abarte didn't want to play a second game , so me and E Matthews just went at it. It was way funny , because everyone else in the alley came to watch our game by the time we were at like the 5th bowl. I guess it's not every day you see a white boy and a half white boy bowling in the pilipinas. Elder Matthews is pretty good as well. So yeah , that was pretty interesting to me haha. I miss bowling with Cody back at school. We'd go like 3 or 4 times a week when it was just us in the tiny bowling alley and spend about 5 dollars , which got you like 3 or 4 games. Crazy cheap. I actually miss Idaho a bit. As I talk to people about school I realized how blessed I was to go up there. I don't know how much I like Utah and Idaho was just quiet and really the place I needed to be the year before my mission. I'll be excited to go back in however many months ... again I refuse to count.
Yeah , so last week after we were done shopping we headed to the zone leaders and got the letters [THANK YOU JUNE! And always sister sturgess ... she's amazing in how despite being fairly aged she still remembers to send me a card like every month.] Alsooooo got the PACKAGES! Two of them. Thank you so much. I'll be honest in that I opened up all of them except for two marked for Christmas Eve. Also I gave Elder Tan the 12 or 13 for him. I think there was 13. But I only opened them , because I kind of think I'll be getting transferred this week and I can't take two extra big boxes with me. But thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you oyouu !!! Everything was awesome and way too much. The shaver is so so good hahaha. I shave usually while in the shower ... without a mirror ... so you saved me so much time and pain every day , hahaha. I'm still using like a dull razor blade because they're not cheap here. The Helicopter thing was hysterical and so hard to fly hahaha. I'll try and bless the life of a child here with that. Speaking of which - sometime before I go home please send more CTR rings. Kids LOVE LOVE LOVE them. They feel so special to have a ring. Most hide it so they won't lose it. But what else ... everything was just awesome. Two new books .... so excited. I love Elder Holland and Elder Oaks is a brilliant speaker. Thank you again. Elder Frandsen [one of my zone leaders] has an LDS BELIEF book as well , and that's fun to read. You should look into it so I can read it when I get home haha. I've become addicted to learning. It's funny how that has changed so much. I've always loved learning , but gospel learning has become a passion. I only like want to read about the gospel , it's so fulfilling ... weird.
Anyways , just thank you. Everything was awesome and it felt just like being home seeing all that wrapping paper , haha. Also the notes on the chain ... mom! You do too much hahaha , that must have taken so so long. Thank you so much though. Please tell each one of those people I love them and thank you.
Yay! Haha , I'm glad you got my package. Please save something for June as well ... there's a bunch of stuff in there. Caitlin as well if you can ... really anyone you can think of , haha. But yeah ... don't get mad at me ! Hahaha just laugh at the gifts. That's all I wanted. Nothing too serious of a gift , just asian.
So yeah , my week has been pretty good. The highlight was exchanges with Elder Frandsen on Friday. We taught a bunch of good lessons , and then one very very cutting lesson to a less - active that keeps promising to come to church , but won't come. She's so sweet and it hurt so much to chastize but we did it with love and ... SHE CAME TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY! So did another less - active member that we've been working with for like 3 months. It feels so so so good when they come back , so much better than investigators , honestly. It was just a brilliant sunday as well. We fasted the whole day for less actives to come , and they came. Church was awesome , the sacrament tastes better and is more meaningful when you're fasting , we had a very important ward council meeting after church , then the First Presidency Christmas Devotional was so so good. Especially the First Noel song. I was slapped in the face with positive emotions with that one. MoTab really helps me feel the spirit stronger than anything else.
Anyways , that's all my news for this week because I'm out of time.
June- I'm sending a letter out today
Caitlin- I'm sending your letter to your home , cuz I don't know when you'll be leaving Utah
Thanks for everything , for all your love and prayers!
Mom , if you can take care of the long distance stuff on your side that'd be a lot easier. You mentioned last may that you could get a long distance thing way cheap .. it'd save me money and time. But if it's more complicated than very simple I can just take care of it on my end. I'll probly ET phone home on christmas day , in the morning when I wake up ... maybe. Or maybe christmas eve. Just tell me when you guys are all around , or the best time.
Okay - love you all!
[ps I'll know this week if I'm being transferred. PRAY FOR ME!]
-Elder A White [parang general authority na ako!!!]
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