Hello people!
Well....this week was great of course....but hard. We worked all week, tried our best and seemingly accomplished nothing.haha But such is life I guess sometimes. It's to be expected sometimes butttt....I don't like it hahaha. But all's well here of course! Elder Robbins and Elder Osumo left and we got two more elders out here in Coron so that was exciting. Like I said earlier not a whole lot happened this week so I don't have too much to report but I'll see what I can do.
So I did really bad at recording the things that were exciting this week so I'll just kinda summarize the week.
Well starting December 1st, the plaza in the middle of the city was allll decked out for Christmas. It's astig! President Nepomuceno has a couple stands down there that we helped build. I've got some pics of the stand and what not, it looks way cool! And like all the stands down there are decked out like that too, it's legit!
Elders Robbins and Osumo left, and I couldn't even say goodbye! Their ride to the airport showed up 20 minutes early and I was still in the shower! I was ticked! hahaha But it's all good. Friday, our new kabahays arrived. It's Elder Misa and his anak, Elder Mwea. Elder Misa was an AP the last three transfers and is now going to train Elder Mwea until he heads home in February. Elder Misa is huge! And from America Samoa but lived in the states for some of his life. Elder Mwea is brand new and it's funny having someone here that doesn't know Tagalog and it shows me how far I've come. Everyone keeps noticing how I was like him when I first got here but now I'm good at Tagalog, they say. haha Elder Mwea is from Tiribati (Island south of Hawaii?) and is big too! I'm the smallest missionary now! haha
Inspite of our lack of work, we found and taught a couple cool families that I'm excited to hopefully see them progress. Oh and our mission is like changing directions. Well actually all the missions in the Philippines. So there are about 650,000 members here and only 130,000 of them are actively attending church. Can you believe that?? So the whole Philippines, mission wise, is focusing on retention and reactivation. They've told us that "tracting" is like the last option cuz we want to focus so much on the recent converts and less actives. So yeah that's kinda interesting/exciting to try and turn things around.
So yeah, I don't have too much to say, sorry! I'm out!
Elder Michael Gadberry
Pictures
0521-0523 -- I think it's a Philippines only thing. But like everyone makes "BR" pages for each other. Like the missionaries for other missionaries and then the members for missionaries as all. So these were the BR pages I made for Elder Robbins and Elder Osumo. I'm pretty proud of them. Good huh?? haha
0533/0534 -- Cool thing that's going to become a straw! Kuya Angelo made it out of straws! Hopefully I'll get a pick of the finished product too
0537/0538 -- President's stand down at the plaza under contruction
0540-0544 -- They're adorable! I couldnt delete any of them, they were all too good!
0545/0547 -- President's finished stand and Brother Michael dancing
0550-0564 -- Cool sunset one night
0569 -- President's finished stand
0572 -- Somebody wants a boy to text them, so they wrote their number on a twenty peso bill haha it was funny
0573 -- No more Brother Orlan! sad...
0579 -- Cool lookin lizard livin in our apartment. There's tons of little lizards like him in our apartment but he's the coolest lookin haha
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