- yep pretty close. taken a lot of pictures. the sunsets are awesome.
2. Yes , that was the correct pawell.
3. Do you think you'll stay in this area or be transferred? It's been about 6 weeks now, hasn't it?
- I think E Jacinto will get transferred before I do. Transfer day is the 24th
4. What is your apartment like?
- Pretty awesome. Kind of like the apartment in San Quintin except two floors , I'll take some pictures I guess.
5. Bucket showers again?
- oh yes. very very cold.
6. How is the food in this area? Any good cooks in your ward that invite you over?
- Yeah , the people are way nice. It's all the same , you never really taste anything different , haha. Just combos of meat and veggies. But it's all way way good.
7. Have you received any packages or letters from Newtown ward at all?
- none yet :\ I got one last year at valentines day.
This one is pretty sweet :
http://mormon.org/people/
How's it going family! This email could be pretty short , seeing as I've got many a thing that I'm doing.
The weeks been pretty good and slightly eventful. I'm surprised how I hardly hear any responses from what I say in my emails to you all , haha. I wonder if anyone readssss... but I just got my haircut. It's pretty good. Tomorrow is valentines day and our tri zone conference in Baguio. In February [especially on the 24th] Baguio hosts what's called the Flower Festival [they liken it to the Rose Parade I think in California] and so , basically , it'll be really hard to get a bus up to Baguio tomorrow because of how many people will be flooding to the mountain for the flowers. But we're all pretty excited for that. Any kind of conference is pretty awesome , I think because we're just kind of sick of teaching .. haha .. what I mean is that all we do is teach teach teach ... we never get to learn besides a couple hours in the morning of reading. But listening to others give talks and workshops and teach is really relaxing and helps to recharge the batteries.
So , I'm late today because we went hiking earlier as a zone. We meet up earlier , and as usualy , wait around for like an hour 1/2 for 4 ... lazy ... elders to get there , ha. So we pretty much just booked it up this mountain which had a large cross at the top of it , then took a bunch of pictures. Then me , elder tolman , his comp , elder bolen , his comp [elder harrison] , and elder jacinto [my comp] decided to go exploring and took a different path down. In which we went through all these woods , haha , and huge fields but finally made it back down. And then we stumbled upon a sweet catholic shrine and a list of the 10 commandments in which they've taken out the part about idols ... it was actually really funny. But we got some good pictures out of it and had fun exploring. Then we came back , ate , showered , got haircuts , now we're emailing. And I'm having the person here put like 9 hours worth of Joseph Smith History [which I borrowed from the district president] on my usb. Exciting news.
But let's talk about this week. Tuesday we had exchanges with Rosario elders and I went back to work with Elder Iray. It was fun being companions again and being able to catch up after so many months. Their area was pretty coolio as well. We finish up the exchanges the next day [wed] and then I get a call from President Jensen saying he was coming through the area pretty soon and could drop off a couple packages of stuff I ordered from lds.org , so we had to book it back to meet up with him in time. We teach a very normal lessons ... and this is interesting part.
We sit down in a lesson with a less active family that's slowly coming back to church , and right after we say the prayer to begin the lesson we hear shouts outside and people running ... so we're like brother what's that. He then says 'oh they're stealing our water again' we look outside into their bukid [farm] (imagine a large farm with grass ... that's a rice field) and this one guy sporting a classic asian bukid hat is boooooking it back to his side and these two 20 year old guys chase after him with itak's [um .. like a sickle and knife combo ... it's for rice cutting] they're chasing and shouting him down until he gets back to his side , and now he calls his boys. So it's like 4 on 2 and one guy on the 4 side is bringing a shotgun to the game ... oh man. So now the original two are slowly backing their way back [even though they were the ones whose water was being stolen!] (oh yeah , they take the water from other peoples rice fields so that their rice will grow faster and healthier ... it's bad.) Then those two call their boys and the other side calls more boys , so we've got a bukid gang war going on. It was intense. Guys carrying little kids are like putting them down , picking up knives and itaks and guns and sprinting into the bukid for this showdown. A few punches are thrown , a few rocks, but no guns fired , luckily. After about 20 minutes of heater shouting and punches and stuff it breaks up and everyone goes back to their houses. But this was crazy. I dove for my camera .... but it was out of battery!! I was upset. So that was ridiculous ... so once brother gets back to the house we're like okay ... let's continue. Then suddenly the cell phone rings. Elder Jacinto answers says okay okay okay , and then hangs up. Looks at me and is like we gotta go ... there's a missionary at our house without his companion. So we sprint home [literally] and try and figure out what's going on. Long story short about that , a missionary went home this past week in my district [that you don't know so don't ask me who , haha] but it was really sad. He only had two months left but has been suffereing pretty bad depression lately.
So that's all the exciting news for this week. Thursday , Friday , Saturday , and Sunday were pretty ordinary. Lots of work , lots of sun , lots of walking , lots of 'Hey Joes' , and a good church on Sunday. I like the sacrament.
I think that's all I've got for this week. I love you all , and happy valentines day.
PEE ESS!
Mom- HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You've got a present coming in the mail ... it should have been here by today , but hopefully tomorrow or the next day. But I love you a lot and thank you every day [via prayer and testimony in lessons] for all that you've done for me. Thank you for getting me on a mission.
KITA KITS
-Elder Austin White
[that was actually not that short , ha]
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