should be tight, it's really pretty there daw. and it will be my first small area. (geographically.... all my areas have been pretty giant and this one is TINY) that's over where that dam is that we went to the other week (wa-wa) and i'm actually taking sister mower's place! so that's cool. bummer she goes home tomorrow.
sorry for the silence last week. it was just a crazy one. but hey now i should have lots of great stories to tell you about!
Sunday was stake conference and Elder Ardern presided (of the area presidency) so that was super awesome. they did a great job.
highlight: he and his wife have really great new zealand accents.
low-light: this kid preparing for a mission taking waaaaay too much time about how all he did before he worked with missionaries was play video games....
low-light take two: not a single less-active or investigator came... laaaaaame. but!!!! a recently returned less active that we're working with got the Priesthood. so awesome. he's preparing to go on a mission. lame though, no one in his family bothered to come.
So there are three of us leaving the ward (out of six) and one of them is elder qaqa who is going home! and yesterday was his birthday. so obviously we had a huge fhe going away/birthday party. it was crazy! elder qaqa loved it. they made masks of his face and sang him a song..... it was a more than gentle reminder to me of my less than love of large groups.... whatevs! happy birthday elder qaqa!
Last week we finished up our exchanges in plaridel and pulilan and that was great! i worked with a lil mexican sister from vegas. she was super funny. and she's never had an american comp so it was really entertaining to see her experience that for the first ish time. (people doing the whole oh heck it's a white person thing) there was a slight possibility that that was my last exchanges ever.... joke lang marami pa pala!!
Also on exchanges that same sister was like hey so we have this investigator that we dropped cuz she just didn't get it. but you seem like you could do something there so we're gonna go back to her. we went back. and did work! it was super interesting. but probs the most interesting part was the random stuff this sister has heard about me to make her think that.... everyone has a reputation i guess..........
last Sunday! we went to this new investigator family that we have. they're super nice but the dad's only day off is wed. so we were expecting him not to be there. so we get there and we can see inside the house they're having this suuuuuper weird chanty prayer song ritual thing to a statue in the living room with candles........ the kid told us it was almost over and asked us to wait cuz they wanted us to teach...... so we waited outside... and watched this craziness... kinda creepy immabehonestwithyou. and then after we could hear the mom (she was the one doing the chanty stuff) telling her friends not to worry cuz she was just listening to us but will never leave their group.... that's what you think now! sister oliphant said in the bible they use, they took that commandment out of the ten commandments... and just made the last commandment into two... is that true?? craziness.
ok well that's super long. have a great week!
-sister jones
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| Tree of Life Meyccauayan Feb 2014 |
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