What up party people!
Alright! So we got de-stroyed! by the typhoon! It was awesome! Joke lang it wasn't too bad here. It was just super rainy on Monday and Tuesday and kinda on Wednesday, and fairly windy on Monday and Tuesday. We had a little bit of damage done to our apartment from it, but like at no point was I scared or anything. What's a little rain and wind anyways? haha
So I'll just kinda go day by day from looking at my journal and adding my own commentary and what not
Tuesday was definitely like the best day. Cuz we went out to try and teach Marjury and Jomar Pelayo, and we get there and find our that Marjury has had her baby that morning! It was exciting! I got to see a baby that was ten hours old! It was a girl, and she was 10 hrs old and still didn't have a name. What a poor, confused little baby. just kidding. But she really didn't have a name yet. Later that day we were taking a tricycle between appointments and I saw a girl wearing a Cardinals t-shirt!! I was PUMPED! haha So we were teaching and find way out in Manggahan and we had an appointment in Tagum so we started walking back from Manggahan to Tagum. When we were about halfway in between the two, Bogs stops and is like "Do you hear that?" I heard something but wasn't sure what cuz it sounded far away. So we continued for a couple minutes, then it started sprinkling a little, and Bogs was like Run! So we take off running to Tagum as it starts pouringgg it was like a solid 10 minute run. It was awesome! We got there and took shelter in Jaime's tindahan. Where I found Jaime rockin a Jo-Bros t-shirt hahaha. Later while we were eating in the apartment, we got a call from one of the Paranaque elders to ask Bogs a question cuz that was where he was before he came here. So after they talked I got to talk to Elder Labinpuno and Tenny for a little bit. Elder Tenny is a fairly fresh missionary from my zone at the MTC and so I got to catch up with him and see how he's doing a bit, it sounds like he's doing great! And just when you thought the night was out of excitement. We went out to the Decleto's and as we were walking on the tulay, I took a step and CRACK! The tulay breaks and my left leg is headin for the water! haha I fell like halfway up my thigh of my left leg but luckily I was able to catch myself before I got wet. So that was legit too! Then after we were done teaching for the night we started heading back to the apartment when it starts pouring again! So we were running down the middle of the street in the middle of the city until a tricycle finally came. By the way I attached a fairly good picture of a tricycle to this email. And yep, that was just Tuesday.
Wednesday -- The finance elder called to see how I was taking the BYU loss, again, for the second time! I told him since I go to BYU and I'm so much better than everyone else, I'm going to take the loss in stride and not say anything about it. hahaha And remember Sister Lagrosa? I hated teaching her cuz she always just laughed at our Tagalog and I felt teaching her was worthless, but now she's becoming one of my favorite investigators! We've been reteaching the Restoration and she's really getting it! I think she's really close to getting a baptismal date, pumped!
Thrusday -- Was a fairly normal day. It was the anniversary of 2 months of missionaries in Coron so that was cool! It's a weird problem that we have here. We have so many investigators that we're teaching nearly everyday to help prepare them for baptism that it makes it hard to get "New Investigators." That's like a good problem to have, but we need to be getting new investigators like everyday but its almost like we don't have time for it, so yeah that's kinda frustrating but okay too I guess.
Friday, Friday. Doin community service on Friday -- So we had service in the morning, and we were going to fix the tulay that I broke but Josaphine's husband wasn't there and he had the stuff we needed to fix it. So we go off looking for a different service project. We go out on a different tulay and find these guys that maybe Brother Arnold knew that were building a house. And they let us help! So I got to help kinda build a house. They were pouring cement down around the wooden sticks that were the foundation. (Unfortunately I didn't have my camera) So we got to literally make and mix cement, legit! Like they pretty much made it from scratch and yeah I got to do it and it was tight, yo. Also, we were out teaching in Manggahan first to the Gueta family and then to Aurora's family. When we taught at Aurora's family there were 11 kids ages 3-10 there, ughhh haha But pretty fun. The kids out there loveee us. It makes going out there pretty fun. Also in those 11 little kids, one of them pee-ed on Bogs while we were teaching. It was hilarious. Even he thought it was funny so it was okay. The other day it just struck me that it was weird that at every house we go to, we sit on the floor. I just had never though of that. Like most anywhere else, we'd have chairs or somethin. But most of the time here its just the floor. Because of my inflexibility, sometimes its hard but it really hasn't been bad at all. Looks like I'm goin be savin money on furniture in the future! haha just kidding I can still enjoy a nice soft couch.
Saturday -- Well in the morning when me and Robbins went out running we passed this like group of like 6 dogs just laying in the road. Yeah, they were not happy letting us pass. They started chasing us and what not but we escaped and went a different route. To find kind of a trail (kind of a trail because we kinda made the trail ourselves at the same time haha) that over looks Coron beautifully. I'll get pictures of it sometime. That night we went out to Manggahan to teach again. When we teach at Aurora's one of Rhea Mae's (Aurora's daughter) best friends (Clarina) is always there and participates and is awesome. Well this time her very drunk mother came along, too and informed us repeatedly that she wanted to teach for her kids and got all emotional and what not. I felt really bad for her because like the kids and the adults that were around thought it was hilarious that she was making a fool of herself, and I felt really bad for Clarina cuz she had to see her mom like this and probably had to put up with this fairly often. Drunk people are very annoying.
Sunday was great! It was fast and testimony meeting so that is always great! Especially cuz the members here and even nonmembers are so willing to get up and share their testimonies. There were no pauses in the meeting. Our attendance this week got back up around 70 with a solid 67, and Elder Bagahansol and I had 15 investigators attend the church. It was great. Also while we were out working I saw a guy wearing a BYU tank-top! It was legit! But I'm 99% sure he's never heard of BYU and isn't a member, as is the case with most all shirts and stuff people where here. They usually don't know what it says or means if its in English or originates from America. While we were teaching Nelda Pelayo, we were talking about the gospel and how it blesses families and about eternal families and she was talking about how badly she wants her family to stay together and how amazing it would be if she could be with her parents, who have died, again, and she started crying and it almost made me cry...She's so awesome! I'm afraid I'm goin get transferred on October 19th! I don't wanna goooo! If I have to leave, I'm taking all my investigators and members with me.
So General Conference here goes down like this. We'll watch it this upcoming weekend. And they're goin have it for us in Tagalog! But Elder Robbins and I get to watch everything but the Priesthood session in English so that's a relief. I heard they're building another temple in Provo! That's crazy! hahaha Life out here is going so fast! I'm almost a quarter of the way through my mission! Ahh! Transfers are flying and I love it!
Love you all!
Elder Michael Gadberry
Pictures
1012--Rain on Monday!
1013--Me rockin the glasses and a TOMMY HILFIGER (my favorite and almost only tie brand but I had to leave most of them behind) tie I found here for 80 pesos!
1014-- Jeepney
1016--Tricycle
1017-- Renz! Aurora's youngest. He wears his school uniform shirt to church so he can be like a missionary
1021 -- Our "washing machine" That's right I'm hardcore! haha
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