Mud and Comp Bonding

Wednesday: had an LDS funeral service in the morning. It was good an normal until we had the lunch with the family and we ate horse meat (like beef) and the family of the dead used this brown holy water to wash their heads and right hands. It is so they don't have headaches or get stressed. It is an Old Catholic tradition thingy... 

Was a good day full of lessons and our plans went smoothly, but at the end there was so many bugs like huge meaty flies it looked like a Plague they are harmless but just annoying, they get in your hair, and smack you in the face. It happens here and because there are so many flies there are so many frogs. We got a trycy to go home and it was up a lot of hills because we are in the mountains. The trycy was having a hard time we hear this clunk and the trycy man says BABA SISTERS! We had to jump out so that he could make it up the hill. And we had to run after him while getting pelted in the face with the weird flies. (a member told us they eat the flies they have 4 wings )  

After that we had a dinner appointment, that was like a restaurant, so good. And the members have a daughter that is supper good at the piano and singing. It was fun. Only thing is that after we all had LBM  because the soup, she used the tap water (not filtered) and didn't heat it up hot enough to kill all the things in the tap water. So we didn't sleep. 

Saturday: RAIN. And this time our shoes got stuck in the mud so we walked with no shoes until we got to some houses. They washed our shoes and we washed our feet, they gave us flip flops for the walk home. It made me think that we helped that family exercise their Light of Christ and then I thought about how there was a lady that washed Jesus feet and just thought about how we really are representatives of Christ here because as the family was helping us they used a different language (Tawis) that I don't know but I heard missionaries and Apo (in tawis it means God). Then they drove us to the next set of houses as they left to go to the city to shop.

MUD.  Our area is in the mountains during the rainy season.

 Our shoes got stuck in the mud so some people gave us their flip flops. 

This is comp bonding.

It is really hot.  You can't use beds because you just sweat so we just sleep on the floor sometimes.

Our missionary housemates.

I love being a missionary.

My muddy shoes

After a baptism on Saturday, we played volleyball with the members.  Nothing too hard because we were in skirts.

A Tiny Mouse

Last Monday there was a tiny mouse in the shower and our housemate that is terrified of mice found him. Long story short, our RM neighbor thought someone was killing us and came to our house with a bag full of wooden sticks to beat up the killer. We just sprayed the mouse with water and it ran out of the door. 

Visited an active family, CUTEST FAMILY EVER! They have very little but are VERY ACTIVE like they do everything and they are SUPER HAPPY. They are like best friends and sometimes she will say we don't have rice to her husband and he will laugh and say Bahala na Si batman. It means it is up to batman. Then he will text the RS president or the Bishop and they get rice and they have never asked help from their parents because they both live super far away and don't have the money for distance calls.  

Saturday: we taught a 9 year old, whose 13 year old sister is a member. We don't know how that happened but we are trying to get the parents. We taught them the Plan of Salvation and we used the tile designs on the floor to be the different places and I was the person acting it out. I hopped from one circle to another it was fun and they liked it. 

Some Cool Things

Have fun in Colorado. The cherries went by fast!! we have a lot of investigators but my companion doesn't know them all so we dropped some, and are trying to figure out who really wants to listen, most of the people we start to teach and then they say I am Jehovah witness or I am catholic don't come back. Satan’s church has a strong hold here, it is crazy. There is 6 major churches in our area all in front of the road. Our church is all the way in the back. hahah it makes me laugh they all are just there to be seen of the world but people can't enter the kingdom of Heavenly Father by going there and here a lot of people literally can't find our church because it is so far back haha. 

But we do have some good investigators. They all are young mothers. Christy Mateo, and Cecilla always reads the BoM and we haven't even taught them were it comes from they just read it. Mary grace has a husband that always reads but he works all day but when he gets home and she is cooking he reads it. Then we teach his wife. 

we have a lot of less actives but they all hide from us or say sorry I am now back to Jehovah or I am now back to Catholic. I want to ring their necks and shout you know how much danger you are in right now!!!! Others just say that they are too busy, to listen, to go to church. That’s when I want to say ya but when you are dead you have all the time to sit and hate yourself for not using the time wisely. 

Also we visit some really old but active ladies because visiting teaching is not a thing here. When we are there all I can think is that the Lord really up holds these ladies. Like they are 82 and up, they wake up pray, read, feed animals, take care of yards or gardens, hand wash laundry, eat milk and rice, take naps wake up read the book of Mormon, pray, clean house,  take laundry inside, eat crackers milo rice, pray go to bed. They totally rock at enduring to the end! One is funny she says she cried because rats ate her Sunday shoes then prayed and then felt better. hahah I am like ohhhhhhhh you need someone to visit you!!! Sometimes we do their dishes and pump water for them to help out.  

Some cool things. 

had a family that is active but their daughter in law couldn't get baptized because they aren't married, and they aren't married because they were lazy to get the Husbands Birth certificate..... we committed them to a date to get the certificate and a date for Marriage so that they would do it. GGGGAAAAAAAAAAA! 

Later that night we were walking home and this lady with this little kid, walks up to us and says can you come with me. We asked here where she was going. Home but was afraid to go alone and she had no money for a Trycie. we walked with her and she told us she had left her job because she is a house maid, and her boss didn't come home on time so she left the house to pick up her kid that was waiting at school and to go cook food for her other kids waiting at home. Usually she would wait for her boss because they would hand her her pay and then she could go home. She just talked all about her life and we just walked and let her vent. She recognized she could trust us. She had people teach her before but her family that was Jehovah Witnesses didn't like it. The whole time I was thinking of 3nephi 12:41 it was cool.

Here we have horse carriages and it is so cool. It is to go to those places that are far but not so far that you need a tricy. There is a lot of horse here.

Our District leader is my batch, but he is the only Pilipino elder in our whole batch that I forgot about him. hahah to make it up whenever we send in our KI's I add thanks Batch! hahahah 

In our far area is up this mountain it is supper pretty! On Saturday we were walking and a punk kid just blows past us on his horse it was sweet. I was like dude this is like the lone ranger I expected someone to be chasing him but no one was and he was just getting home from school and it was downhill so he ran his horse. After that we got a ride down the mountain and saw someone was letting off fireworks it was like when we went up to Lindsey's for the fourth to see all the valleys fireworks. It was cool, at least I got fireworks kind of close to the fourth. haha 

One of our investigators has a sick baby so the baby was super tired but too hot to sleep. They don't have electricity. So we took some pamphlets and fanned the baby off until it fell asleep then we taught a lesson. They thought I was the oldest because I was good with taking care of kids but I said nope but I have a lot of nieces and nephews. 

One of our investigators lives in a house where people have placed a statue of Mary and they come every day to worship it. They interrupt our lesson, so we have to stop and run out because they make weird comments. But she told them to house it somewhere else and they are going to move it to another mountain top house so that we can have good lessons with her. 

There is a college here and a lot of boarding houses. So we have started to teach the housemates of some of the members it is really fun. We tell them that Heavenly Father wants them to do well in school and wants to hear about your day, like your parents at home want you to.  I miss college life..... so much fun. 

Visited the most frustrating LA ever. He has like 4 jobs and is never at home. He has two wives because there is no such thing as divorce here.   So we can't baptize his investigator wife. IT IS CRAZY! But we teach his kids and the boy came to church and wants to pass the sacrament now. He is a cool kid. Also he is kind of getting a flame for missionary work because all the talks were about missionary work and he asked us a few questions it was awesome! 

New Friends and Fun in Caves

I got transferred on my birthday. President Rahlf called us to wish me a happy birthday but that is all I did on my 21st birthday and then have just been working and getting to know the area. 

I have enjoyed talking to new people OYM asking others for help it has been a great place because it is so big and there is just so much opportunity. I love it. It is supper pretty, a bunch of hills with fields for the horses and it is close to a bunch of mountains. 

Kind of overwhelming everything being so new to but that is normal. The zone is cool, kind of quiet and not all buds yet. My last couple of zones we were all just friends.  We will get over the new-ness.

My comp is really good.  She is sister Seumanu and is from Western Samoa. I know that she loves the people, she listens, she knows the gospel and she is willing to learn more and she is fun. While walking we just go where ever and talk to everyone. It has been fun. There are new friends. New people.

We had a district activity at some caves. It was cool!

My new companion