Dear Friends and Family,
This week has been interesting I guess you could say. Not really much
happened. Elder Edem has been sick. No miracles really took place and
it's been sort of a down week. It always seem whenever that we have an
amazing and a great week, the week following just sucks so bad. Why
can't they all be good weeks? I think it's just the Lord making sure
that we're humble, but that's just my positive thinking I think. I guess
we'll see how the following week goes.
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| Dad's pose |
Monday
was just P day. After email we ate lunch and all these kids kept
comping up and asking me for money. We're not allowed to give them any
type of money because we live the law of consecration as a missionary.
So it's not allowed. Then we went and bought some things at the market
or the grocery store, which we didn't really have that much money, so it
wasn't that much haha. Then we played basketball like usual. I played
for like 3 hours straight and didn't even get tired. It was nice to
exercises. It's nice to let off steam every once and awhile you know?
Basketball has always been able to do that for me. Even though last week
was a good week, I really need a release sometimes. Then that night we
washed our clothes and cleaned the house and prepared our stuff for the
rest of the week.
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| District Meeting |
Tuesday
we had our district meeting and after it we went to the Ondoy's house.
They invited us over for lunch. Well, they told us for Mango's, but when
we got there, they had prepared lunch for us. So we ate a pretty good
and decent lunch. Then we worked right after and went to Sta. Ana. We
first went to the Diana Family. This was the last time that we'd see
brother because he's going to Cebu on Wednesday for work. Needless to
say, he did go and continued his journey on to Cebu. So now he's there.
He will come back and I probably won't be here. I will miss him, but it
was a good lesson. We taught about The Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is
just the missionary purpose, of Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Holy Ghost
and Endure to the End. After we took pictures and said our goodbyes to
brother Donny. Gave him an extra Book of Mormon to take with him,
actually he requested one, but we were going to give it to him anyway.
After that lesson we went to Sister Mercedita Ayo, who did come to
church last week. She's been good for 3 weeks now. If she comes next
week, she'll be rescued. We taught her and her niece about the
Restoration. Anyway, the niece was a potential investigator, however,
now she's in Escalante working as what we call it a maid. Other than
that nobody else was home and nobody really wanted to entertain us. We
went to Rodolfo Ayo, but he wasn't home either, nobody was. Like I said,
not a good week this week.
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| Approaching storm |
Wednesday
I had to take my two pairs of black pants to the tailor. Being the
idiot that I am and thought I could climb a mango tree, I did. And...
ripped my pants right in the center where... yeah you get the picture.
Then the other pair of black pants the hem was coming undone. So I took
them to the tailor on Wednesday morning. It was cheap to fix, don't
stress. Then we had planned to go visit Bro Despojo in Paitain and the
Desuyo family. However, we were going to visit some less actives that
live a little farther away first. Anyway, none of the less actives were
home or they had no time for us. So we just worked and yeah... nobody
wants to listen. Anyway, so then we rode a motorcycle up to Paitain to
visit Brother Despojo. He was working and selling these like fish
things, it's really hard to describe because it's not in America.
Anyway, they're pretty good, if you have a good sauce with it. It
doesn't taste like fish. However, he was too busy to talk and so we
taught the daughter Recelle Kaye again, just like last week. I'm not
sure what's going on with the Despojo, Recelle Kaye was the only one of
them at church this week again. I don't think any of the members visit
them because it's sooooo far away. So we're going to work on that in
Branch Council. We taught Recelle Kaye about the Book of Mormon and
showed her a map of the world and where the Book of Mormon came from.
The whole North and South America is huge... It's funny to say, yeah it
came from the America's. Which is gigantic. Then explain how the land
broke and yeah... haha. We don't really do that, we just say, yeah it
comes from America. Then we went to the Desuyo family. Brother Desuyo
was there. We found out that if he wants to be baptized that President
Lopez is going to have to interview him. His wife was previously
married, so they can't get married, since they're no divorce. However,
I'm not going to set up an interview until he comes to church. Which he
wasn't at church this week either, so that will still take some working
on. We taught them about the Word of Wisdom. 3 of them are members,
anyway, they ALL drink Coffee. So way to go! So we addressed that, but
I'm pretty sure they don't care. Still drink it anyway. Then it started
rain and this started the sickness of Elder Edem. He didn't bring his
umbrella, so he used a big banana leaf. It still works, but just not the
same. Anyway, the night of the storm, he got sick right away. Not
really sure why, but that's what happened.
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| Leading the caribou to its food |
Thursday
like I said, Elder Edem was sick. He had a fever and it's like the same
thing that I had a few weeks ago. It was bad. He didn't leave his bed
all day. So I cleaned the house again, did my laundry and studied all
day long! YEAH!!! I'm not going to lie after studying for a few hours,
eating lunch by myself, and then cleaning, I was pretty tired, so I took
a nap. I don't know why I was so tired, just missionary work I guess.
Anyway, that's what I did all day. Thursday night he said he was feeling better though, but it was too late to do anything.
Friday
he woke up and was still sick. So all morning he still laid in bed
while I studied Preach My Gospel and tired to see what these people in
this place need. It was good and I learned some things, but I couldn't
really find things for these families, still working on that. Then we
did our weekly planning when he was feeling a little bit better. Then we
went to work in the last afternoon. We actually waited 2 hours for a
bus. Not sure what happened to the buses. Anyway, when it finally came
we taught the Garcia family about the Plan of Salvation. One of their
sons told a girl in the branch the only way he's going to be active
again is if she accepts him as her boyfriend. How stupid and what a
joke. He doesn't know that we know that though. He was at church last
week and that was the first time in a long time, but he wasn't there this Sunday.
The rest of the family wasn't at church either expect for one son,
Badong, he's the returned less active that I told you about. Then we
taught Sister Dumdum, she's been at church the past 2 weeks, but not
this week, dang. We taught her and her son about the Holy Ghost. Her son
is preparing to serve a mission. He's actually way bansai at the piano.
Bansai, means like... good or skilled. We taught them about the Holy
Ghost and why it's important and why we need it in our life. Then we had
our weekly dinner appointment at the branch president's house. It was
good good good. I love Adobo nga Manok. Chicken! We shared with them why
God gives us trials, I think I learned more teaching it than what they
got out of it.
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| Diana family |
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| Highlight of the week |
Saturday
we usually don't eat lunch and just try to get out and work. However,
we wake up and there's no water just like last week. So we studied while
waiting for the water to maybe turn back on. The Chin couple said they
needed to bring some stuff to us, I was thinking MAIL... anyway, they
just had a contract renewal for our house... so that was a bubble
buster. Anyway, but they came at noon and so we couldn't get out of the house as early as we wanted too. I don't know why they always come on Saturday's at like noon,
that's when I don't want to be at the house. Oh well, I just do what
I"m told. So we went back to Sta. Ana and taught Sister Jorolan about
Prayer. We found out that she can be married and so that's the next step
to get her baptized. Then Sister Mercedita about a scripture, it was
off the top of my head, and I forget what it was, but it was something
that she said that made me think of it, so that's what she shared. Sorry
I forgot what it was. Then we went to the Diana family. Mary Ann just
happened to be close by so we grabbed her with us in the lesson to have a
member present lesson. Then we taught them about the word of wisdom.
They all agreed to live it. Sister Marialyn Diana is going to wait for
Brother Donny to come back from Cebu, but will allow the kids to be
baptized. However, none of them were at church on Sunday.
So... yeah, they're baptism was going to be on the 27th so that we'd
have one this transfer, but now with them not coming to church, it's
going to have to move back. Then we taught the Assessor family. Sister
will return next week. Brother can't come to church because of his
work... yeah, if only I had a peso for every time that I heard that
excuse, I would no longer need to have my mission support money.
Sunday
we only had 3 less actives at church. Sister Jorolan was there. So
after church we went home, ate, changed, and then headed out the door
because our numbers are totally suck this week so I was trying to boost
them and teach some people. We thought we'd go back to Sta. Ana because
that's where we can get the most teachings. Holy cow was I wrong.
Everyone was gone and they were all at work! What a shocker... all
working on Sunday. Even Mary Ann and her family weren't home. Gr... so yeah. It's been a rough week.
Well,
that's my week. Sorry it's not very exciting and sorry it's not a good
email. Today I plan on playing a lot of basketball, for obvious reasons.
I hope all y'all back home are doing great. I'll continue in my efforts
this week.
I love y'all!!!
From the City of Escalante,
Elder Ellis
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