Go Baptize!

It's been a beautiful week.  We finally did some service with chopping down bamboo and building a floor then another day we planted rice while deep in mud.  The other companionship had a family baptized Saturday and it was beautiful on the beach.  Then we were blessed after the baptism.  A lot of our appointments were getting punted but that quickly gave us the opportunity to teach 2 new giant families and another giant group of family and friends.   I gave a talk this week in sacrament.  Oh and we had a brown out during church so no fans and the hymns have no hope of sounding like the original.  I ate like typically throughout the week; rice, noodles, and worms. Thanks Elder Soulier

It's so beautiful here.  The branch is great and we will be building a real church.  So we can just focus on people by church now saying it's just next door and build their faith until they are will to travel for church and then we can just do the same thing at the new location.  We are going to be calling more members coming up, for the Presidnecy.  President Trebuscia is the branch president.  He is a recent convert obviously and he once was a sea man but we quit that so he could attend church and when Pres. Koster found that out he immediately called him as branch president.  My companion is awesome.  This is his first time training and he goes home in march?  I think President Koster is expecting me and E. Ivins to learn fast because E. Ropati are very good missionary is leaving after 12 weeks of training and I think Pres. wants to move E. Cayton soon enough.  But my companions great, his first language is not Tagalog and he learned Engli...

Mamburao has been great.  President came in this week and gave interviews and then spoke in sacrament.  We have been getting a lot of brown outs lately, cuz of the rain I think.  People here always like joking around and having fun.  Sometimes it can be harder to have a spiritual moment but mostly it just makes it easy to connect and enjoy the day.  But I always enjoy joking around myself. Nanay Miriam is so close to getting baptized she just can't quite give up coffee, and we've been finding a lot.  I enjoy doing it in another language because all I have to do is walk up and say hi while I know my companion will have to respond to their response. hello that was such a surprise when you said school was starting up.  Its great here we have found so many people.  with our district of 4 elders we found 100 people this week, how the area works.  The hard part is converting that into movement, everyone wants to be your friend...