Hey ya'll!
It's been a wonderful week here! I've loved it! I don't think I have too much time so I'll get right to the deets.
It's Friday night and Tyler Semple and Darsh are here meeting your brother and you aren't.
Aw sad... I miss them! Tell them hi for me! That's legit that Darsh brought you clothes for Bunso! #Darsh4President
Are you going to be in for a shock when you get back out into full time missionary work again?
Of course not! It's not terribly hot here right now it just rains and rains and rains and rains and rains and rains and rains! It's so fun! We got like soaked and a half so much this week. It was great!
P.S. Your mother and father were gracious enough to let me (Tyler (S)) and D-Wizziique (Darshan (S)) take over the key board for a few closing notes. We just destroyed your dad and brothers in ping pong, held Sam (D-Wizz got to feed him), and we are now putting him and your parents to bed. So.... we hope things continue to go well over yonder and we anticipate your return! Have fun and get it!!!
Aww thanks guys! hahaha Heart you too! I didn't know Darsh was such a talented guy when it comes to babies... Hear that ladies?? Such a kind, caring, strong, manly man... And he's single! Well I think so.. I'm not too sure..
So this week was pretty awesome! One of the things that I started doing this week thats been really really cool is every evening after we get home and plan and all that jazz, I kinda ponder my day. I review the goods and the bads and the shouldas and the couldas and all that, and then I pick out three events during the day in which I saw the hand of the Lord working in my life. It's really cool! It's really helped me better realize how intertwined the Lord actually is in our lives, not just as missionaries but I would encourage all people to try doing something like this. It's helped me more grateful, more full of faith, and better able to recognize the Lord's hand in my life. Sometimes its real easy and other times its hard, but its a cool thing to try! Give it a shot!
So Monday was pretty awesome! I hearted it! That guy that came into the office last week that couldnt talk or hear, he came back on Monday and Elder Baltazar and I got to help him out! It was awesome! That guy's way good and super nice. I hope he's able to continue gettin along. Monday night's work in the area really strengthened my testimony of planning and goal setting. Last week, we set the goal to find at least one new investigator every day. To be a new investigator it has to be someone that we taught a lesson and they have agreed to a return appointment. And we wanted like legit new investigators not just whoever. So we hit the area that night with a couple appointments and that in mind. We didn't really know where to start looking or talking to people so we went down this little road and just stopped cuz they were shooting a TV Show called "Batang Ama" at the end of the street. Some people there just started talking to us like saying hey they're shooting down there you can't go through. So we just stopped and started talking to them. And from that we found two new investigators! And the star of the show, JM DeGuzman , even walked by and shook my hand..hahaha So we were more than pumped after that, so we continued. And we had planned to just stop by Mark, one of our LAs. And it was perfect! It was the one day of the week where his wife was there so we got to teach those two together and we got another new investigator! Mark was more than pumped that we were able to share with his wife. He said if his wife got baptized that would be like the greatest thing for him. And then we went home and partied. haha just kidding but it was an incredible night!
Tuesday we had a pretty awesome experience too! We got to teach one of our investigators, Jaycee! We taught him about the priesthood, and the restoration. Then we gave him a baptismal date! He asked us great questions I remember, like how do you know if someone actually has the priesthood? And why's important to have it? So we're pumped for him. He accepted the invitation on the grounds that when he prays he feels that what we're teaching him is true.
Wednesday was pretty interesting and legit too! In our area that night we only had a couple of appointments. The first one was at the Gozon's and we were able to share a good message with them. We were hoping to get to visit with Brother Gozon, too, but he was busy and not in a very good mood..haha But it was okay cuz we were able to do what we needed to do. Cuz at the end of the lesson we asked Sister if there was anything that we could do to help her and she asked if we could give her a blessing and we of course obliged. It was a cool lesson cuz it was one of those lessons that when we first got there she was kinda quiet and visibly weighed down, but by the time we left she was happy and joking and her mood completely changed. I love those lessons! Isn't the gospel and the Spirit great?? Later that evening we visited our old ladies and it was great! Except the one we were hoping to be there wasn't there! She had gone to bed already.. =( But the cool thing was, when we were kinda getting ready to wrap up. She came down the stairs! She was like, "Alam nyo? Bumaba lang ako kasi gusto ko ng blessing." or in english...She came down cuz she heard us and wanted a blessing. So blessing round two! Pretty cool! And then we headed home!
Thursday was rain day round one! We didn't have any umbrellas. So what did I do? I found the biggest leaf I could and covered my head with it! THE WORK MUST GO ON! hahaha We were getting soakeddd. One time Elder Pugmire was like, watch this. Then he went and called this little kid over and shared his umbrella with him. It was pretty hilarious.. haha But that doesn't even compare to Friday
Friday, was interesting at first cuz we were going to wake up early but I didn't hear my alarm go off. But luckily my phone rang right at 6:31am so that acted as the alarm..haha The Lord's helpin me out! I woke up and woke up the other two and gave the phone to Elder Grob cuz I didn't wanna deal with problems at 6:30 in the morning..haha The day went pretty good and the night in the area was FUN! We were working and happened to stop by Burger Machine to talk to Ronald. And then it started POURRRRRRRINGGGGGGGGGGG like seriously, pouring talaga. We took cover there and watched the roads turn into rivers, like seriously, a river. hahaha Like seriously. Eventually we were like welp..we gotta go I guess.. So our buddy Ronald offered us trash bags! Cuz again....we didn't have umbrellas..haha So we got prepped. Took off our socks, rolled up our pants, cut head holes in our trash bags and went trompin down the knee high, super nasty water, in the streets of Mandaluyong.. It was probably one of the funnest things ever! People always looked at us and I was givin out shouts of joy and just lovin it!
Then today..we were asked to go give the sisters in our district a blessing cuz she was pretty sick. And guess what! All their roads were flooded too! Gotta love floods! I think the water is like super nasty but its fun.. =D
Well I'mma get rollin! I'll talk to you all later! Have an awesome week!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
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