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Well hmm...don't really know what to say in this email to not sound too repetitve. So I'll say that this week has been sabrang maganda (idk on the spelling..) It's been another good week. I got packages from you guys and grandma in consecutive days. Grandma beat you. So I've got alllll kinds of juink food and sugar chillin on my desk. and I got a letter from Jakey this week!
Oh yeah! We got a new district this week! and the oldest district left on Monday. I was sorry to see them go because they were awesome guys but so pumped for a new district! So pumped in fact that me and 3 other guys in our district wanted to welcome them in a unique way. We came back from dinner and their doors were open so we thought "what a great opportunity to welcome them." So we proceeded to remove all 8 of their mattresses and place them in a closet we found to be unlocked to our surprise. It woulda been great but one elder (not of the original people that did this) thought it would be funnier to lock the closet so we couldnt get back in, so he did when none of us were there. So because of that the harmless prank was now potentially causing them to not have beds to sleep in. But we found a guy to unlock the closet for us (he thought it was a hilarious idea too and called us "turkeys") and so we drug their beds out like it was Christmas.
So I'm lookin back at my jounal and on Monday something truly amazing happened! Well you see it was a regular gym period and I was ballin it up, you know how I do. And the teams (decided by FTs) happened to end up being essentially bigs vs smalls. So I am guarding Edler Wilde, I've played with him for a while and he's way cool. But anyways he's like 6'5"-ish idk exactly. and he gets a layup opportunity and from behind him I just jump and get up as high as I can and proceeded to block his shot. It was awesome. Definitely got really excited and everyone laughed at me, but I was pumped! The end.
The language is still coming along really well. Last night we had our TRC training thingy again and it was way awesome! You first start with a 15 minute wika (language) task (everytime). And this time we had to pick up our investigator from their home and take them to the bus stop and ride a bus to church with them and get to know them and follow up on committments and what not. So Elder Smith and I picked him up and off we went. Elder Smith is usually way good at Tagalog, but our investigator was talking so fast that he just went blank, but I followed along with the conversation almost flawlessly but obviously with limited vocabulary. Even times where I would translate for Elder Smith and give him the opportunity to talk he just went blank. I felt sorry for him but was really shocked at how much Tagalog I actually know and I know that if it wasn't for the spiritual help in learning the language I would be no where near where I am right now. After the wika task we teach a lesson for 35 minutes and this time it was on the Plan of Salvation and Baptism. And we did way good on that too! Our "investigator" (RM who served in San Pablo, Philippines) was way complimentary of our teaching. Now we just gotta figure it out in Tagalog. We teach multiple times a week to a "progressing investigator" role played by our teacher and those lessons are almost solely Tagalog so its way tight and sick and dope dawg...haha.
I don't think there's much else to say this week, kinda boring, sorry but awesome week nonetheless!
Mahal kita,
Elder (Michael) Gadberry
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