Magandang Hapon po!
Kamusta na kayo!?
Wala naman transfer sa akin ngayon.
Now I officially get the privilege of spending the next 6 weeks in Mallig!
Elder Llorin was finally given the boot after being here 6 months. I can't help
but laugh that there are many missionaries that havn't been out as long as me,
but they still have several more areas and companions than me. I guess I have
the tendency to stay in areas a little longer than most. I thought it was funny
how Elder Allen ended up getting one of my last companions Elder Sister. He
begged me for any advice or anything to warn him about, but I simply told him
to go into it with the attitude of it being his best cycle yet and what he
doesn't know doesn't hurt him. My new companion is Elder Oyardo, and of course,
Fillipino. He speaks little to no English which means I am by default the only
bridge between the Shaners and whatever translation help they need.
Last week was also interesting
because I got to talk to Elder Hawlader, the first missionary to serve a
mission out of the 43 members in the country of Bangladesh. Luckily he
speaks decent English so he can get around okay. He told a pretty awesome
conversion story and seems how there are no missionaries allowed in Bangladesh,
he was baptized by the U.S. Ambassador that lives in the embassy. Every week
all 43 members in the country of Bangladesh meet together in a meetinghouse,
including the US Ambassador. It is even more cool that he is being trained by
Elder Landeen (friend from my MTC batch) in my first area of Cabagan.
That is going to be super weird with
Dad actually having a few hours of free time from not being bishop anymore!
Don't worry, I'm sure he'll be back in no time in the Young Mens with the pesky
12 year olds. Haha. And by the way HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! You should all have a
good weekend down in Big Lake inhaling the smoke and ashes. Sounds like a good
time not to be home! Haha. Make sure and launch a few fireworks and shoot a few
guns to celebrate the 4th of July for me.
Dad asked about how much of our time
is spent with investigators or recent converts and Less Actives. Because of our
new focus of Less Actives, and of our obligation to teach newly baptized
members for at least a year after they are baptized, not very much time at all
is with investigators. I can't even remember the last time I've had to do
'tracting'. If we ever have a hole in our schedule we need to fill, we go
through the records of the newly baptized because most likely they are not
active. We basically only pick up new investigators if they are a referral or
if the person comes up to us and asks us if we can teach them ,which happened
to a 17 year old girl last week that just started showing up to church
randomly. She said her whole family is Catholic (as with every other person in the
Philippines), but she just felt like there wasn't something right. Then she
remembered seeing missionaries several years ago and decided to give it a shot.
Oh, Elder Teh from the 70 will be
coming here in a few weeks and asked us to come with a doctrinal question. Any
good ideas?
Well I think thats it for this week.
Have a good week!
Mahal Kita,
Elder Nay
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