Hey everyone!
How's life over there?? Life is going great here! Finally got some people around me here that enjoy playing basketball so we've gotten to ball like the last two or three preparation days. Woo! Filipino basketball is definitely way different than basketball in the states. So don't judge me when I get back and I play basketball funny. At first I wasn't a big fan of it cuz it's just way too fast and not that pretty. In competitive games, they always play in a 2-3, so I always just think it's cuz they don't like playing defense cuz it's all about offense. But it also kinda works too because generally Filipinos can't shoot. It's all about one person driving, and then kicking it out. Now it's his turn to drive, and dump it off to someone else. It's all very close to the rim. So I make my money sitting there hitting really easy mid-range jumpers haha. But when they play full court it's even more different.. cherry picking is a viable strategy here.. I was like when that happens in the states the game is essentially over and it gets no fun real fast but that's just how they roll here. But now I really enjoy playing. It's a lot of fun.
One thing I was talking about with my companion earlier today was kinda about basketball. We were talking about pre-mission life and I was like I thought it was going to be this huge thing to give up ESPN, basketball, soccer, baseball and all that jazz. But I've found that it's actually not been that big of a deal.. So it's been cool to see that I can live without it and I've learned I think how to not take it too far. (I still don't think I ever took it too far before.. haha). But I'm grateful to learn that there is more to life than what's on channel 27 and 28.. haha That was ESPN and ESPN2 ...I think. =D haha But you guys get what I mean right?? haha
So this week has been another great one, so hopefully I can relay that in my email today.
It sounds like the Seachon family is doing really great! Did they make it to church this Sunday as well?
Yup! It's funny because the Nanay has been there four times in a row now, but she always has iba't ibang kasama.. or umm.. there's always a different group of them that comes with her every Sunday..there! haha So it's going pretty good. It's been kinda hard to teach there though! haha Children here are like wild. I know everyone will say children everywhere are wild but like it's just different here. It's super hard to teach families. Cuz everyone, yes everyone, at some point during the lesson gets up to stop a crying kid or check on the rice they're cooking or go get something they forgot or go buy something for dinner or just lots of stuff. "Basta" there's always someone coming and going.. So sometimes we in our minds get jealous of those missionaries in America that when they show up to teach a family, mom and dad are sitting there on the couch and the kids are there too and they're not like playing with toys or fighting with the other 20 little kids at the house or just making constant noise.. haha Of course I know that rarely do the U.S. missionaries get like the "perfect" teaching situation.. but we like to think that life is hard here... hahaha
I follow Apollo Ohno (the speed skater) on twitter and he was recently in Manila. He tweeted a picture of a ginormous halo halo. He said he ate about half of it.
Hey me too! I remember tweeting at him back in the day... but he never tweeted back at me.. #ThatWasSoTwoYearsAgo. haha But yeah halo halos are cool! It's a tradition in the mission that on your first day here you go out to work with the missionaries that are assigned not too far away and they're supposed to take you to get a halo halo at the end of working with them for a few hours. I still remember that.. haha At the time I wasn't a big fan of it.. well actually the ice cream part is super good but all that jazz and junk in it is.... interesting. But not it's definitely pretty good. I like it, but still don't eat it terribly often.
Hey umm.. sorry this is super short but umm.. yeah I gotta get going.. sorry!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
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