This week rocked pretty hard. From my memory I can't think of anything terribly exciting that happened but I don't know I guess we'll see if I can think of anything.
Any changes on transfer week? Was it nice to finally not have to run around like a crazy guy taking care of other people's problems?
Umm.. Nope! Not really. My district stayed the same for the most part. Elder Handy and I stayed. Elder Bollena and Elder Caliao stayed. Sister Afu stayed! But her comp left. Her companion this transfer is a ward missionary. And then one of my ZLs moved. And Elder Gagnon my ZL in the office came over. Which is pretty funny cuz I told him that we'd always be in the same zone.. haha But yeah it was nice! We didn't even have to go to transfer day! We had to go to the area office though which was an adventure in and of itself... but at least I didn't have to solve everyone's problems! Well actually the solving people's problems part of finance was kinda cool I kinda liked it. It was the other stuff, the more like bookkeeping stuff that kinda gets old.. haha
Grandma's turn!
What happened to the papaya lady and her husband? Is he going to be baptized also?
Well the papaya lady and her family is different than the one with the husband that we're working hard on. The papaya lady is doin pretty good this week. She wants to go to church and do all that jazz but the care-taker of the land that her family is living on told them that if they change religions then they were going to get kicked off the land... #dumb. So we're trying to work on that.. Ate May's husband, the lady that just got baptized. Is still progressing I guess little by little. He seems to have good feelings towards us but he's not home for 6 days a week so its hard to teach him. So we'll see what happens, but his times will come. We're trying to get him to take a Book of Mormon to Makati with him so he can read it after work but I think he's forgotten every time. But seriously.. if he would do that he'll come to know its true!
BTW, what did you do with the papaya?
Umm.. I kinda put it on the fridge till I forgot about it and it went bad.... #oops!
So like the awesome thing about missionary work is that like you're pretty much always led by the Spirit even when you don't know it! Just one example from this past week on one night. So we were running late and we had to decided to visit this one family or the other and not really thinking about it I was just like I feel like we should visit the Atip family rather than Macmac and his family. So we did that. So we get there and we find that the members who live next door had a kid that had a really bad fever/flu and he couldn't even get up off the ground and could barely open his eyes. So we gave him a blessing, and the next day he was like four times better he wasn't hot. His feet/knees were still kinda swollen so he had some trouble walking but he was still outside playing with the other kids.. haha And then later that night we were heading to Lolito's but Elder Handy said maybe we should go to Balansag instead. We said, nah.. we'll go there tomorrow or somethin. So we go to Lolito and find out that he's not there.. haha So then we go to the Balansag family and it was perfect because the father who is NEVER there was there! So thats why we needed to go! Cuz he was there and was leaving the next day.. The spirit rocks!
I noticed something on Sunday that was kinda sad. There was a total of 5 families at sacrament on Sunday that both parents were there. And of those 5 only one of them have been sealed in the temple already... And thats the problem across the whole country.. It really made me realize how lucky I am to have my family and to be sealed to them forever.
In other news, the song Starships really makes me wanna dance... hahaha
Well I better get going, I'm starving! Time to go eat some rice and chicken at Mang-Inasal!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
Pictures
The crazy pictures with Filipino's -- those are the majority of our Branch Missionaries. They're crazy! But awesome!
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