Why hello there everyone!
This week was great of course. Got to fly for my 11th and 12th times since leaving the MTC. Put on an embarrassing skit at the mission christmas party, and taught a lesson to the entire police staff here in Coron. Well I gotta go! See you all later!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
There we go, had to get rid of the posers who don't actually read the whole letter. This is for my true followers. haha
But yeah, this week was great! Still kickin it here in Coron. It's crazy how fast its going! On Christmas I'll be about 5 months in the field and 7 months into the mission. Ridiculous. I'm not happy. haha Just kidding, of course I'm happy, but seriously this goes too fast.
So on Monday, we decided to have Family Home Evening (Family night with lesson/games) with the Decleto family, which was kinda random cuz I don't know, that's just not the first family we would think of to have FHE with, but it was awesome! The Decletos are a part member family, and tatay (Dad) seems definitely not interested in the church, but friendly nonetheless to us. But he was there and FHE was great! And I was just pumped cuz he was enjoying himself and the family was having fun together and it was just a good way to start I think for him.
Tuesday was great too. We visited an investigator family but they weren't there, so instead we talked to their eldest son who is awesome! He's tried a bunch of different churches and you can definitely tell he's looking for the truth and it's exciting to tell him that he's found it, but at the same time it's sooo frustrating when people won't even give it a chance. Later, we hit the Jucaban's and Brother Jucaban is reading the Book of Mormon and loving it! He wakes up at 4:30 in the morning to read it before work, cuz he rocks!
Wednesday we were off to Manila! But not before I spilled Mango on my shirt...haha You can't go to Manila with Mango on your shirt! Ugh! But I got it changed and it was all good. The guy that lives across the street from us was rocking a Dave Syverson for Illinois Senate shirt and I saw Carlos Puyol at the airport haha. (editors note: He plays soccer for FC Barcelona. I'm pretty sure he wasn't in Coron.) And then our plane got delayed for 4 hours...oh that's fun stuff...haha But we made it to Manila it was all good! I saw a bunch of friends in the Quezon City Mission at the temple that night it was awesome! Probably almost worth the delay earlier that day.
Thursday was the Mission Christmas party in which the Coron elders performed a skit that was the best of all the performances, "daw." (Not) We hadn't practiced but like once or twice and it went pretty well! It was fun and hilarious. I have a video, but the quality is really poor, and it doesn't fit in the email sorry! The devotional before the party was way good too! And then we had a gift exchange/dirty santa in which my little Coron souvenir thing was well fought over, so I kinda rock. I got a rubix cube, and it's intense! I messed it up to the point that I can't fix it though.. =( haha but it still looks cool! But the best part was that I got to see everyone there and I loved it! Actually I lied the best part was that I grabbed some Krispy Kream at the mall hahaha That's how I role!
Friday, we flew back and we were all exhausted! We'd gotten about 8 hrs of sleep in the past two days, but that's all good. But I had a cool little epiphany thanks to Elder Bagahansol! So how I am, is if I don't know the people very well I'm not as myself as I usually am, and I'm even quieter if it's like a group of people. The bigger the group the quieter I am. So when we teach families for like the first time I usually am afraid to say much, even though I wanna talk. But what I learned is, when I'm playing soccer and basketball I'm almost always the loudest one on the court of field and there's usually a ton of people there of which I don't really know that well, but I'm loud nonetheless. So how much louder should I be when I'm on the Lord's playing field, when souls are at stake instead of wins and losses. So yeah, I try to keep that in mind all the time when I feel scared to talk or whatever. It was sweet.
Saturday we visited this really nice old lady who lives in an awesome house! The toilet even flushes! We shared a little bit with them and it turns out the lady used to always read the Liahona (Church magazine) because of her member friend and then her eldest son loved what we were about and told us to come and share in their weekly police meeting on Monday morning so earlier today we did that and rocked it of course. So that was pretty crazy awesome.
However on Sunday, I was supposed to speak in sacrament meeting and teach in Sunday School, which woulda sucked cuz we had like no time to prepare this week, but I woulda worked out of course. However on Sunday I woke up and I didn't have a voice! haha I had like a cold-ish and it really hurt to talk. So luckily the night before I talked to Tonton about speaking for me cuz it started like Saturday afternoon and he said that was fine. And Elder Bagahansol taught for me. So it all worked out. Also, I've started rocking cereal Sunday! Cuz it rocks! (Wow i use the root word "rock" alllll the time) But I've been doing it for a while but this week I even got Elder Bagahansol to join, so yeah. Rockin it.
So yeah that was pretty much this week. Still "rockin" it here in Coron. Merry Christmas sa inyong lahat! Listen to Star ng Pasko. It's Tagalog but like my favorite song haha. (I'll post the link to Star ng Pasko. KG)
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
Pictures
0676--0697 -- FHE at the Decletos
0708--0717 -- Fun after district meeting
0724--0733 -- Flying pics
0731 -- DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY
0733 -- Those are rice fields, daw. But I think they might be fish farms instead but idk
0734 -- MAGANDA! I rock.
0736 -- My companion and Elder Butler..? I don't know why he wanted a pic with him. But elder butler rocks!
0737--0741 -- Temple at night
0742 -- I just took this for fun and it turned out really good! It's a flower by the temple
0743 -- gift exchange
0784 -- Me and Sister Afu! We're best friends.
0749 -- The baggage claim at the Coron airport haha
0750 -- Bogs playing with his gift exchange prize
0761 -- Mine, messed up to the point that I can't fix it...haha
0762/0763 -- My mom sent these for my bday from peeps! And now they're in my BR, thanks!
0767 -- Our police man hook up. He wanted pictures haha (Dad take note from your book, I think you know what I'm talking about) and I'm rocking one of the ties Gma and Gpa C sent me!
0774--0778 -- View from breakfast this morning
0779 -- The police people we taught this morning!
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