well i am still not understanding this language but everyone is assuring me that i will get it soon and that it will make sense so hopefully i will get this language cause it is sure is boring sometimes cause i dont know what is going on when we are talking to the members my companion is telling me that give it time when things get hard and our mission president is a awesome guy he told me that efforts are not failures he compared it too when nephi went to go get the plates how he tried several times before he was able to get the plates from the house of laban but each try was not a failure or just like thomas eddison or however you spell his name it took him 10,000 trys till he made the light bulb so i just got to keep trying so anyway
so i am in the town of san manuel there is not a lot there but we have many rice fields and houses other than that really nothing for transportation we have to ride on trikes a motorcycle with a little cab attached to the side in that states that would be against the mission rules here its our means of transportation
http://www.google.com.ph/
there is a website with pictures of jeepneys there fun little things to ride and you fit around 22 to 24 people inside that if you can believe and trikes is the means of transport haha so anyway you know how we get around here in the phillippines
so this last week so we have had some success we have 2 investigators with IBD or they have a baptism way to go it has to be all the spirit cause i know that my tagalog is bad so it cant be me but i am still excited though we also have less actives coming back to church and there is a lot of less actives here in the Philippines i am not sure how many there is more less active then active members here in the Philippines there is a lot of rescue effort here but its all a rescue effort if you think about it so anyway what else has happened here well we have this one investigator his name is brother michael and he is very shy his whole family is a member but he is not but he reminds me of myself in some ways so i think with enough persistence he will come around
Plus i think i am loosing that weight i gained in the mtc i am sweating all the time and it is the cool time of the philippines too and i am exercising every morning with is a challange some days than others and maybe i ll come home with a six pack haha proably not but who knows haha so what else has happened i also have learned how to say the word for goat is kambing and some previous elder was taught the word for goat was pwete means ass like a donkey so his trainer laughed everytime he herd him say that
all the philipiono kids are saying to me in english Whats your name they always are asking me that it is pretty funny they sure do love americans here in the philippines and everyone here is so nice even though they have so little like the size of an average home here in the Phillippines is about the size of dads garage so we are definalty blessed here plus all the kids here dont always have diapers or cloths so we are a country with a lot of blessings that is for sure
we have not been able to watch conference we watch it this weekend i am excited for that
no body figured out my riddle yet from my last letter so i will give it again
what is something every bathroom should have but we dont have in our appartment the hints are my left hand is not clean and water is our substitute
haha if you figure it out props to you haha
Makayla so we have a shower in our appartment but we do not have any hot water though and we dont a washer our dryer either
Attention everyone i want to see some letters use dear elder what happend you have been slacking on that end i would really love it if i got some dear elders my info is
Elder ward phi bag urdenta zone so if you can i would really like to see it if possible
Love you all hope to hear from all of you soon
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