What it do everyone?? haha
So the story behind the subject "paki-sayaw" goes like this. We have a missionary in our apartment who's still fairly new so this week he decided that he was only going to speak Tagalog in the house so he can practice more. So one day we were washing our clothes and I was at the faucet filling up my washing bin (if you remember a longggg time ago I said washing clothes by hand was kinda cool. . . . .it's not. haha =D). But anyways, he wanted to use that faucet and so he was asking me to move. So he said, "Paki-move elder Gadberry." I replied, "Huh? What's move??" He said, "Ugh.. okay. Ano ang move sa Tagalog?" I smiled and replied, "Sayaw." So he's like "okay... paki-sayaw Elder Gadberry." So then I looked at him again, smiled, and did a little dance. He was just about as confused as you all. So go to google translate and type in paki-sayaw. (To save you time, it said "please dance") Then laugh. His Filipino companion laughed pretty hard and called me bastos. Which if you google translate that it probably best translates in this case as "cheeky." haha I'm just too funny.
We haven't asked about Filipino food for awhile. Do you have a favorite dish? Are you still eating lots of stuff you never would have dreamt of eating four years ago? Just curious...
Umm food here is still good! It seems pretty normal now.. A little while ago I was thinking about it and I was like what really is Filipino food?? Like if I wanted to have you guys eat something Filipino what would it be? It took me a little while to think of stuff cuz everything is just too normal now. But my favorite is definitely called Tinola. I think I kwento-ed about it a long time ago. And it's still my favorite. It's chicken with like herbal spices and ginger and papaya and it's easy to make they say but I've never tried.. People ask a lot how often we eat rice back home and I'm like ummm maybe one a month.. And I always remember the ever famous and geniusly named: Rice-Hamburger-Cheese.(it's actually called hamburger-rice and cheese and on the menu for dinner tonight) I bet you can't figure out what thats made of... Now I realize that lots of stuff tastes good with rice! . . .not just cheese and hamburger.. hahaha Did I tell you guys about pancit?? I can't remember but at first I thought it was super good! But now it's like soooo old. haha You guys remember Aladdin when every time the sultan sees what's his name the parrot guy... but anyways the sultan always shoves crackers in his mouth and he thinks that the parrot likes it but he actually doesn't really... haha That's kinda how pancit now is for us.. haha Almost everyday we eat it cuz that's a common easy thing to make or give to guests so that's what we get.. haha But I'm sure once I get back home I'll start to miss it.
Missionary transfer trivia - February is a no transfer month. The last time that happened was July 2012.
Actually.. They're now adjusting our transfers for whatever reason. I think they said its to fit in with the new MTC changes or something I dont know.. But this is just a five week transfer that will end Feb 28 haha. So that's why my going home week will be May 22nd ish instead of may 29th like it shoulda been. #GettinJipped
Did you meet the missionary that you hadn't met yet from the Middle East yet? Your zone seems to be very international. Is that typical of the mission or just your zone?
Actually it turns out that she's Filipino as well.. haha She just had a name I hadn't ever heard here yet. So that puts us at 3 filipinos. Woo! Umm.. I think this might be the most diverse but I feel like the mission as a whole is pretty diverse. But I don't know..
Okay! So this weeks cool story and funny both come from the Seachon family. They're awesome! So which do you want first? . . . . .
The majority of you replied cool story. So that's what it shall be.
So it was awesome! We're seeing some real blessings from our hard work. The Seachon family has been to church 3 times now after this week. But earlier this week we went by there to teach cuz everything fell through so we thought to go by and ask them how church went and if they had any questions or anything like that. So they asked us a few questions and we were able to help them so that was really good but then Nanay started telling us about her experience at church. She said back in the day she started feeling bad about not going to church cuz she hadn't gone to church for a long time. So she decided to go to church. So she went to her church and after the services she ended up coming out of there feeling no different and even kinda feeling worse, she said. So she decided that church wasn't for her. However, she kinda shared these feelings with her family and her dad (who is LDS) invited her to listen to the missionaries or come to church. She declined and even would hide from the missionaries if they were ever around their house. But as life went on she kept thinking about these experiences. She kept feeling that she can't find Christ.. She said that I feel like I know Christ and I love Him and I want to follow Him. . .but I just couldn't find him. So she kinda just accepted that as it was, but then she kept thinking and living and was like why am I hiding from missionaries? They're just like regular people... trying to help.. what they share is good.. So then she said, "Shortly after, we showed up with her brother, Maurice." On the other side of the story. Brother Maurice randomly came up to me and said hey I have a cousin that I want you guys to visit and hopefully help her come back to church. So we excitedly agreed and made plans that week to visit them. So we showed up and had a pretty good lesson and that's how we began teaching them.
After some really awesome lessons there, we finally got them committed to go to church. We visited them on Tuesday and taught and they committed to go to church. We re-scheduled for Saturday, primarily to remind them about going to church. Come Saturday night Elder Orth for some reason was feeling like trash and his stomach really hurt him.. so we needed to call it a night, for his sake, but we decided to at least go by the Seachons and show our dedication and remind them about church. So that's what we did and they came to church! We didn't think anything of it but Nanay related to us on this Tuesday that by Saturday that week she was having second thoughts about going to church.. But then when we showed up Saturday night even though Elder Orth was in a lot of pain she said to herself that these guys really care about us and said that she decided for sure to go to church. She said that it was awesome! And she really enjoyed it. And the second week as well! The second week apparently in RS they discussed Elder Perry's talk about his mom. I think the talk was "Becoming Better Parents" but I'm not too sure. She said she really felt that lesson and talk. She said there was a lot of english being used by some of the other sisters that she didn't understand it all but she really felt it. So after she kinda told us about her experience she looked at me right in the eyes and said, "Nahanap ko siya. ....Nahanap ko siya" "I found Him. ...I found Him." It was such a powerful experience because one of my pinaka-favorite things to do as a missionary is to smile and say with all the conviction and love I can muster, "Yes. Yes you have." "You've found what you're looking for." "Yes. That is the Spirit telling you that this is true." It's so awesome! I love the Lord for preparing awesome people and being able to use me to help them grow closer to Him!
So on the other end of the spectrum.. That less-active in the family that Maurice wanted us to visit has her own family and her husband is one of those guys that when he's not at work he's drinking. haha He's pretty funny and I joke with him a lot so he always jokes with me and is like let's drink! And all that stuff.. So this past time he was like let's drink! And I was like nah.. you guys go ahead.. haha So then after the lesson he was like okay time to drink! Luckily, I had a plan for this. So cleverly, I replied, "Ah nah.. I'm good. I already had some Tang." (from that family). He replies, "This is Tang too! ...Tang-Red Horse! (Red horse is a very famous beer here). I kinda laughed cuz I thought it was actually pretty clever. ... I'm going to have to put a lot of faith in his church experience... haha But yeah that was kinda a funny story for the week.. But I gotta get rollin!
Hope you guys have a great week!
Love
Elder Michael Gadberry
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