May 5, 2013

Anyways this week has been a long one. My new companion and I have been doing good. He is really quiet, but he is all about doing the work. It is really quiet though haha. Anyways this week we have had some struggles. We are looking for new people to teach, especially new investigators and Less Actives. The problem is we can't get a ward directory or something like that and we have no referrals and no leads. So we took our efforts to the streets! Man for like 3 days we have been walking around talking to everyone! Nobody really wants to listen to us! Every night I have come home soaked with sweat and I am way tired from talking and walking. But we have had little successes. One day a girl called out to us, said she wanted to meet with us. So we have plans to go talk to here. Also one of our new Less Actives we found is having us teach her friend too! So  it hasn't been a total failure. But a lot of our investigators stopped listening to us! So I am pretty sad a lot of them are Part Member families and we are just trying to complete them! Anyways yeah so that has been our week! We are walking talking and sweating. We haven't gotten very many lessons this week so hopefully this week is going to change it. I don't have much to say for this week haha. Anyways crazy thing I saw this week. So there is this law here in the Philippines called coding. There are specific days where a car is not allowed to drive to help traffic and pollution. Anyways some taxi driver got caught, but he tried to run away. The Police here will stand in front of the car and let them run over them and try to not let them get away. Anyways this Taxi driver wasn't ready to kill, but he wanted to run. So he like pushed the police that was in front until the police moved to the side. Than the police guy ran to open his door, but he had them locked. So than he tried to break off the side mirror to stop the guy. Than his other police buddies ran over and they started breaking the windows with rocks! ... the taxi driver stopped and now he has way more to pay for than just a ticket! way crazy! Anyways also we had this Less active ... she is like 70 and she is big!! she can walk, but it is hard. Anyways, we were going to visit her and when we walked into her little cement hut, whoah I though she was naked!! I turned back, but the ward mission leader was there so he went in. Turns out she just was really hot so she took off her shirt, but she still had her skirt hiked up to cover the rest of her body... it was kind of gross haha. But it was kind of funny their conversation. The ward mission leader ask her, "What are you doing! Where is your shirt?" she responded, "What are you going to rape me? you can't rape me!" haha... it was funny me and my new companion Elder Juario laughed our heads off. Anyways I am learning a ton from my new comp by the way! He is way good at English and Tagalog... he is fluent though in his dialect over in Mendano so he is way skillful! haha Anyways It has been fun hope for better days in the work though!