Tuig na, tuig pa

12/27/10
The Bicol Express didn't happen. The sisters were invited to Bacolod to eat at the mission home, so we rescheduled for this Friday, New Years Eve. As for the amount of pork, filipino dishes don't use too much meat, typically. That is one reason why they eat so much rice, if you don't, you don't get full.

The group in our apartment is a great one. We all have so much fun together, goofing off and just having fun. It's a good group. Our part in the Christmas thing was way easy, all we did was sing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful." The sisters wrote a catchy song about being sick in the mission and the interesting recommendations of the doctor. Yeah, just wearing stockings will not fix anything. It was a really funny song, especially for anyone that has visited the doctor here.

So, the warm climate here in getting warmer, moving in to summer here. Well, not really summer, just the dry season, which does make it hotter. It's okay though. There are ways to handle the heat, but you still will sweat like crazy.

Christmas was interesting, that's sure. We played Mah Jong while we took turns calling, then got ready to go to the party in Masville with the Zone Leaders. The party started late, but was still fun. We participated in some of the games.

Church yesterday was...alright. We got to the church just before nine, almost impossible for Ayungon, there were four people there. The building was still locked, and remained that way until 10! The branch president was way late! One of our recent converts (probably the strongest member in the branch) and his investigator family show up at 9:20 ish, and he tells me that he thought that they were late. When church finally got started it went pretty well. We had the 2nd counselor in the district presidency visit for the second week in a row, he spoke a couple of times while I was in San Enrique, he is a good speaker. Simple guy but good teacher and has a really strong testimony.


Well, due to many reasons we didn't get too many days of actual work this week, Christmas Conference, Christmas, and Christmas Eve. But our investigators are still doing well. We are working on finding more too. And visiting the families of our recent converts, many are either less active or nonmembers. That is going well with one of the families. The dad and brother aren't members, so we are teaching them. We saw the dad yesterday and he confirmed our appointment with him tomorrow.

We are going into this next week with confidence and high hopes. We have four investigators to be baptized in two weeks, and they are all doing great.

Well, until next week! I love you all!

Elder Jordan Phelps
PS Tuig na, tuig pa is one year now, one year to go