Short email.
Seeing as I've just spent the past 45 minutes chatting with most of
you that read this , ha.
Really no new news here. Still in Damortis for 6 more weeks and pretty
stoked , the work is way sweet here and so is the area. Except the
ocean is crazy tempting. When it's ridiculously hot outside and you
see this amazing water like-water outside ... it makes you want to go
swimming , ha. But I suppose my bucket showers are just as good.
This past week we had district meeting on Wednesday , in which our
zone was reduced in half because so many had gone home the day before.
Weird. But Elder Shultz [zone leader] gave a short workshop and then
announced the transfers. He wrote my name on the board amongst the
transferring , but I didn't really believe him. Haha , good thing
because then he erased all of the names except one ... only 1
transferred out of 14 haha. So that was ... boring ... and then we
went to mang inasal which is a chain restaraunt here with good grilled
chicken and unlimited rice ... so you eat until you're really really
full ... that costs 2.50$ . Umm ... that's about all the news I've
got. Oh yeah , my companion got really sick Monday and Tuesday , had a
fever hit 103.6 - so I got to play doctor again for a couple days ,
then on wednesday until saturday I got sick. Fever only hit 100.7 ,
but I felt so ridiculously light headed and sick to my stomach for
about 3 days. Don't worry , we still worked all day every day , haha.
Those were fun days.
Friday found out I was called as district leader again...
Saturday was the national broadcast from the area presidency.
President Teh and his two counselors. They announced the new focus to
all leaders across the country and gave instruction on how to best go
about it , so incredibly helpful. This week has actually been amazing
for less active work. In the few weeks we've been here we've hunted
down and found over 50 less active families. So many amazing
experiences with them , and there was this one [Arsenio and Natividad
Doctulero]. It's been a few years since they've been at church. The
first time we found them , Arsenio was drunk [he's probably 50+ and so
is his wife]. We tell him we'll be back on Tuesday. Come back , he's
sober [but maybe a little tipsy] , basically just were friendly for
like 30 minutes and shared a really short short message. Come back on
Thursday , his wife joins. Out comes the fact that he has a word of
wisdom problem , so we give him a blessing to overcome it. Come back
on Saturday- BOOM , fresh new haircut , he's sober , wearing glasses.
Needlesstosay we were so happy to see him and his wife and two
grandchildren at church on Sunday. Some of these people literally only
need love to come back. They're such awesome people , but they're
easily led away.
During the branch council meeting the branch president was like , I
think we've all noticed all the less actives coming back to church ...
we'd like to extend a thank you to the missionaries [prideful , but it
felt good to be noticed , ha] . So yeah.
Here's a quit status on the philippines:
Membership: 659,000
Active / Average Sacrament Attendance: 144,000
% of Young men between 21 - 26 that served missions: 4%
We're doing some clean up.
The country and everything in and about it is amazing , it just needs
a little help.
Also ... MOST IMPORTANT PART OF EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::
David Archuleta apparently has come to the Philippines as "his way of
serving a mission" [I'm pretty sure those were his words] and he is
starting a TV show on their main channel which will be aired every
day. I'm pretty sure this will help the church here ... he's really
famous here , ha. Also , he's speaking Tagalog. HUGE!
`e.Wh1te
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