So I am in a city called Solano in the providence of Nueva
Vizcaya. My Branch is Solano 1. The President of the branch is Pres. Villiarde.
The Reyes family pet monkey.
Lunch at Misses Bakers with Sister Rahlf
Random kids that let us borrow their bike
The Pulis (Police) and Security around here just have
military guns and it's cool. They just chill and say good evening ma'm. They
are just 20 something and one security man has a shiny shotgun that I swear is
from Halo.
Eating sweet rice - it's like candy, really good and sticky.
More flooding pictures from typhoon
Water up to the bridge. River that was super high and
rushing and the metal part of bridge was shaking.
The Bunsay family and only 1/2 of her kids and
Sister Rahlf.
Sunday amazing! After church we jump on Branch prez trycy
and go and work. After we teach every family they want us to stay for snacks. (I
have come to dislike snacks) it's usually pop and some kind of cracker with
frosting in it. I eat and drink to be polite but man we are ALWAYS EATING then
we get home or to a dinner appointment and they ask me to eat more rice you
have hardly had any! They ask if rice is weird. I say No it's not I just
have a small stomach. (Reality I am sick of eating all the time!)
OK good things of this week. We made dinner for a part
member family Bunsay. We can't pay them and they are hurting for the money but
the kids ( our investigators) want to help their mom be happy and not focus on
how much they don't have. We learned the 16 year old boy dropped school to help
out around the house. He has 9 siblings and takes care of them. But what is
cool is he is still a teen. He plays b-ball at the church and he has a friend
that he invites over for some of our lessons. (We can't teach him at his house because
his parents are of the Inglisa Church, but when he happens to be hanging out
with our investigator it’s ok and he wants to listen he really does but that's
all we can do.) The kid has a lot of valor. Because he dropped out his sister
can attend and he doesn't know English so I teach him in my broken Tagalog. Anyways
we asked for their Tupperware and then made some pork ginger and veggy soup and
they made the rice and we ate and then taught them. It was cool we never go
over there at night because they don't have lights so they usually go to bed or
are in other places with lights. So we ate by candle light. After teaching them
and feeling the spirit so strong I felt like it was all a dream. It was soo
good!
District conference this week the mission president came!!! On Saturday in the morning we went with Sister Rahlf our Mission Presidents wife. We went to the family we fed the night before with her. She doesn't know any Tagalog but she helped us teach anyways. It was so good. I translated for her and it was really fun. Then we went to another pretty poor less active member, Rubelzia. She does laundry to get money and is living with a family that lets her use their internet to keep in contact with her husband when he is at work. we taught her about studying the BoM and then we went to a less active family that has a bunch of American memorabilia and so many instruments he use to be the pianist at the branch. He loves all things America and has visited a couple times. We taught him priesthood responsibilities and how he probably should go to church.
After that we borrowed the Bunsay kids (our investigators)
and went to work. The first house with them was a member she is a seminary
teacher and she only didn't go for the last two times is because her dad was
sick. (he has a sweet mustache!!!) We shared a scripture and asked her to tell
us what it meant to her and then we added a little. Next was the less active
Vasquez house of old ladies. I think they are all sisters and they sew clothes
and patch things up for a living. We taught them and had the Bunsay kids ask
the ladies some questions. Then it was the adult session of Conference. The
Bunsy kids came with us. After that we
ate with our APs the other sisters that worked with Sister Rahlf at this bakery
called Misses Bakery. It served American dishes. I got pasta and a cheese cake.
BAPTISM ! Marrielle (17) got baptized. Her father was going
to baptize her but he just got back from work and said he was too tired (I think
he didn't feel worthy enough hadn't been to church in a while) so her uncle had
to do it. We were her designated mothers hahah. We told her all that would be
happening and helped her when she got out. She forgot a towel so I let her borrow
my face towel (we carry it around for wiping of sweat off face). She cried
when she bore her testimony and so did her dad. It was really good. I just hope
that she will stay stronger than her parents. Her grandma was super spunky
afterwards. Saying you’re lucky! You’re Lucky! You got baptized with the
mission presidents around! LUCKY! hahah This grandma is always talking to me
about missionaries and missionary work but I can't hear her because she has a
little shaky shy quiet grandma voice. But not then I heard ever word and
it was funny.
Sunday was good too. We got 5 new investigators. The Medaros
Parents are interested in the church. So we visited and they live in a compound
kind of way. There is the parents home the newly married home and the home next
to them is a Christian family house and then they have an outdoor cooking area.
They were outside watching Grandma and Grandpa cooking noodles out of bamboo
shoots. So we met and taught all of them 1\2 of the first lesson. It was so
good! the Parents have 1 kid not married but about 18 and 2 married kids and
the Christian Mom and her 12 year old listened and at the end the Grandpa came
over and listened (even though he only knows Illicano (different language)) IT
was amazing the Christian Mother Added a lot to the conversation and helped
explain. We taught and bore our testimonies I cried. About families and how
they are so great and about how being called from God and have Priesthood Authority
in our lives was amazing. Then stopped at the Great Apostasy. They will have to
read the rest and then ask any questions they have about the restoration of the
truth when we come back.
After that we went to the Dagiuo family they had been to the
district Conference except for the Father. He slipped back a little into
gambling again so he felt unworthy to attend with his family. We taught him
about repentance.
SSSSOOOOO GOOOOD!
Ps. so people here are obsessed with SpongeBob. My trainer
has a wallet a pillow and a pen of SpongeBob. Crazy.
Our Zone and APs and MISSION President and Wife.
Baptism!!! FIRST one. Marrielle(17) us and our mission
president! It was raining couldn't get outside to take pictures.
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