Well my dad used "yo" last email... =/ so...
Yo!
How goes it everyone? Okay, okay, okay. Don't all answer at once. I didn't catch like any of that..haha I'm hilarious =D
Things are going great here. I'm still totes rockin the awk in the off. Alright share about "rockin the awk" first and totes. So this week my companions noticed me sayin "totes" and they're like what?? I'm like totes! you know, like totally but shorter. They're like okay, thats weird. I'm like no its not! Everyone does it in the states! You guys have just been gone for too long! So this week I've taught them the new lingo like totes and rockin and other shortened stuff like that. So at the temple tour I was talkin with Elder Spencer and I was like "Come on! You're totes rockin the awk right now!" and so they thought that one was hilarious and we use it fairly often now. So yeah! Now you guys can start using totes rockin/ed the awk. I'm pretty proud of that one.
So yeah this week was good! On Tuesday we had a little district potluck-ish thingy, and we told we were expected to bring adobo (be tee dubs, that's masarap!). So we had like twenty minutes to make it. Which is ridiculous. But we actually managed to make it! We were running around, kinda making a mess, and just hoping to finish it, and hoping it tastes decent cuz this was our first time making it. So we got it done! But...the rest of our district wasn't a big fan of it...haha I liked it! It was like super salty (so of course I liked it right? haha). But decent nonetheless! Especially for having been made in twenty minutes. While we were with our district, I spent a majority of the time talkin to Elder Koochin. It was great! He's from Canada, so we talked about HOCKEY! And yeah I'm def still learning how to play that, just fyi.
Wednesday it took us an HOUR to get to this office. Traffic was ridiculous! But we finally made it. And Elder Belarmino and his trainee had to come pick something up at the office so we talked with them for a while. His trainee is Elder Kang. He's from Mainland China! How cool is that?? The weird thing is that he knows very little english and no Tagalog...haha But the Tagalog he does know sounds hilarous cuz it sounds so Chinese-y.
We got to teach one of our few investigators that night. His name is Palma. He's awesome! He's really hard to describe because sometimes he's really random just cuz he has a ton of stuff going through his mind it seems, but he understands the stuff we're teaching him so well! And he's already started thinking about how he wants to help other people around him like we're helping him, but he said "I have to fix-ish myself before I can help everyone else." So he's really magaling!
So Thursday, I had an epiphany per se. I was doing and stuff in the office and we had a lottt to do that day in the office. And I stopped and was like hey! This will be more exciting than my little corner at NAL that summer...hahaha Sorry Barrie if you're reading this! But let the record show that Barrie rocks! I really did enjoy working at NAL though, just doing this stuff will be more fun and exciting and like fourteen times as stressful so it's a good thing that I don't get stressed out, right?? haha Because we had so much to do at the office, and a couple things Elder Stirland and I forgot really needed to be done. We had to leave Elder Stirland at the office with the APs while Elder Spencer and I went out a rocked the area cuz we had a couple appointments. So that was kinda weird not having Elder Stirland with us, but that's how it'll be next transfer! And we're goin DO WORK! haha
FRIDAY! That was my exactly six months in the Philippines! WOOO! Time's gone soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fast. =) So of course we had to celebrate! So of course we rocked the Krispy Kream! So delish. I think the APs found this talk called like The Fourth Missionary. I'm not too sure on the title, but if you're interested you can probably find it on the internet. But anyways I've been reading it and it rocks! I finished it on Friday and I'm like I'm going to be that fourth missionary! From that talk he's the only one who like actually had his life changed by his mission. Like the "third missionary" was really good, but he didn't give all of himself to the Lord during the mission. Like one of the main things I noticed from that talk was that the 3rd missionary "sacrificed" his will for the Lord, but the 4th one "gave" his will to the Lord. He said that the 4th missionary doesn't throw out all of his dreams, desires, hobbies, enjoyments, and all that fun stuff, but rather he simply "packs them up and puts them on a shelf." So yeah, I'm going to rock the fourth missionary. haha The cool thing about Friday was that we actually got more time in our area compared to the office! And we got to teach Palma again!
Saturday was my first "temple tour." It was exciting! So temple tours are when we bring our investigators to the temple and they tour around and missionaries teach them about the temple and everything! It's an AWESOME experience for me and the people we're teaching. We thought for sure we'd have one of our less-active families there, BUT they texted us in the morning and couldn't make it... =( But it was still great. Got to help out, and talk to a bunch of missionaries and the people their teaching and it just woulda been even more awesome if our family woulda came!
But after the temple tour we went out to our area and got a reallyyyy good day of work in! We taught our RM less-active member, and he's totes back in the church just not officially yet. He made it to church again this week, so that's twice in a row. He's really enjoying it, and says that he misses going to the temple, so I'm pumped for him. After him we taught two other Less-active families that we just found for the first time! One of them even said that he didn't really have a reason for not coming to church and he knows he should go (especially cuz his son is serving a mission right now) so he said he'll come back to church next Sunday and we're goin hold him to it! Saturday was ridiculous though! We got fed at every appointment we went to! And it was all good stuff! From chips, fudge bars, RC, Sprite, Toron, Pancit, Monggo beans, and Pepsi! We had it all! haha
Sunday we had 6 white people at church (not counting our companionship), and I was kinda freaking out. But it turns out that they're Humanitarian Aid missionaries from the church and they're out here teaching doctors. So we got to talk to them for a while, and one of them even had a son serving in the Quezon City North mission. She took pictures with us (Mom-I think you guys may be gettin that pic to your email). Then we went out and worked and did our thang! Then this morning we woke up early and went and played basketball with one of the Zones here close to us. In case you guys were wondering the Finance Elders or "The Starberry Experience" went undefeated this morning. We kinda rock.
This week was good.
With love from
eLdEr MiChAeL gAdBeRrY
Pictures
1341 - View from our area!
1342/1343 -- BIG Choco-Mucho! So good! haha
1345 -- Oh boy did we "Make today special!" Six months!
1346/1347 -- Temple at temple tour
1348 -- 2 of the four sisters in our district! These two are hilarious! Sister Lopez saw me taking the previous picture and when I turned around she shouts "Elder Gadberry! Picture-an mo kami!" (Take a picture of us!) So I did.
1349 -- We died after church on Sunday
1355 -- Intense chess after ballin! I played later and got beat...I'm out of practice! And these Filipinos enjoy their chess!
1567 -- Where I work! My computer is the closer one
1560 -- Yeah, def not ready for Elder Stirland to take that picture of us
1644/1645 -- Chillin after temple tour
1651 -- Exhausted after ballin' (Note my "Team LiveStrong" outfit! haha)
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