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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.  I've been thinking about the power of the pause and it's impossible to use here cuz people just start laughing.  oh and a lot of people are slowed down by marrige, (for 1 you can't get divorced?) they have kids and live together and we always ask if they have plans and they always say they do but it's been tricky to get that going.  The DeJesus family, they are super awesome and strong with 2 little kids but they won't quite get married yet.  Typically its money, but, the DeJesus family has all the required stuff they just want to buy a ring, food and event stuff.  The father, last time we were there, shared that he had a dream about how he saw a garden that he was very close to but he couldn't reach and he kept getting farther away.  I didn't understand this at the moment but hopefully next time we can use that postivielty to push him forward.  A lot of people just don't understand or know much about how stuff in the church works.  When we gave the DeJesus daugther a blessing the father first tried joining us with laying on hands and 2nd the insisting that oil was to be placed where the pain was.
Oh I'm getting more used to no toilet paper and no ac but I still honestly prefer when we have a brown out in the morning and I take a bucket shower instead of the inside one.  Because the one inside if full of spiders but mainly with bucket showers I only have freezing water poured on my head for a second.  I'm excited to buy a rain coat today because we are walking through tiny alley ways with rain from the whole roof pouring on you and my open umbrella does not fit.
we stopped by the hospital this week and it was a scary and seemly very unsafe to be when sick.  But then we went in the room and it was the same as everywhere else, a bunch of people just chillin and sick people curled up in bed immediatly joking with you

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