Zone Meeting, Zone Activity, Tropical Waterfalls

Well, everything is just fantastic here. Elder Panilagao and I get along really well. We are both different but still good for each other. I have learned lots from him already. Our apartment is practically perfect in every way. It's a second story apartment. It's not all that big, but the perfect size for just the two of us. An up and downside is that it is right next to the highway. That is a good thing because it makes it easy for us to get places. It's a bad thing because occasionally it will be noisy at night with cars driving by. The Catholic church is also pretty close, and every Saturday and Sunday morning stating at 5:30 they play this recorded bells song from their bell tower. It's really loud and early. But then again, we never sleep in on Saturday or Sunday. But we never sleep in anyway!

The area is doing just fine. We have investigators, and that's a good thing. There are days that just stink though. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday we go out to this area that is kind of farther out there, and recently everyone that we go to out there hasn't been home that day. So we walked all the way out there for nothing... But there are other days where everything goes well and we end the day feeling really good.
We have a baptism this Saturday, Mariel. She is a really good investigator. Always reading and attending church, she also is attending seminary. She is also always excited for our visits, and it's not just because we are that awesome. She is excited for the gospel.

Today we had Zone Meeting and our Zone Activity. We rode up in to the mountain on a jeepney and had lunch there. Then hiked down to some waterfalls, and hiked back up. It was really fun, even though it was raining. It was hard to hike in my flip-flops especially since one of them broke.The hike back up also showed me that even though I have lost weight, I am not "fit." Sure, we walk EVERYWHERE but that did not help for hiking. It was still a lot of fun. And I have now seen in person, tropical water falls. Yes, I took pictures, galing (but) I forgot my camera cord today...

(Picture added 8/23/10)

I am excited for the coming week. Baptisms, investigators, walking, ending the day ridiculously tired, but still cooking rice and noodles before going to bed. It also sounds like you all have quite the exciting next couple of weeks coming. Good luck with all of that!
Elder Phelps