Dec 17, 2018 at 12:20 AM
Hey, so the city. I honestly don't really like the transition. Loving my companion.
A lot of things are different. like sunday. My companion said how they never once
cooked at home and sunday...they didn't get any food so I was worried for starving
until monday morning. we went to one appointment in the morning at 10, they feed
us cheese and bread, two 1 liter? sodas, then fish. then chruch, I sat in church for
these super long 3 hours, I'm never really tired and stuff like personal study is easy
to do but I was sleepy tired at the end of it, they handed out pancit at the end of church.
They grabbed us first and made sure we got feed. Then we get invited to a choir
performance later of our ward singing, at the end of that we got feed chicken and rice.
Our house is not in our area. It's in Bugbug's area, Our kabahay's. We have one
American(he's in his second transfer here) and one filipino (he's close to reaching a
year here). The whole mission here is super young. It was the same in Mindoro.
We walk a lot more than I ever did in my last area. 1, my companion has sworn off
jeeps, which is all fine by me. So we walk like 45 mins just to get from our house to
any one of our appoinments. We have companion study at the 7-11. Appoinments
are different here. I was so excited when I was walking around because so many
people, so many people to talk to. And I was and am talking to everyone. But it's
not the same. In Mamburao if I could just get them to keep talking they would say
"pasok" or enter even if they rlly weren't interested. Then we would take advantage
there. They don't say pasok here. and every house is jammed right next to eachother
so we have nowhere to sit and try and teach. we can't do it outside cuz all these things
are happening, kids, drunks, just lots of noise. And my companion was thrown off
when I took advatage of people being nice. I did that to someone, they sat down, so
I pulled out their chairs and sat down but my companion wasn't used to that but now,
he's willing to try it. Plus his last companion didn't find at all, he says. It's all from
"referals" but we don't get referals. We just had a missionary leave for his mission
last friday so I saw him but we did loss someone to work with. We do have a couple
of rm's in our ward.
I walk through all this traffic all day. I think before they would just walk from inactive
to inactive and often get punted but my companion doesn't really think that's really
smart or effective which I am totally down for but, now, we are just figureing out how
to best use our time. I walk a lot more too because we aren't teaching too much.
Only a few appointments and lots of "punting" so that means a lot of walking. My
head gets a headache just from the noise, so much, always. I'm always talking to
my companion in english which is different but nice. I'm a little more confient with
the language so I can lead talking with people so it has been a big confidence bust.
Just talking to all these people passing me knowing I have no filipino to bail me out.
I know we will both make big jumps in the language.
We don't have a baptizsm for this dec. 22nd which is the mission goal date but, we'll
see how stuff turns out for p-days we get together with our whole zone, to play basketball.
It's weird, but we have a lot of americans in the mission now.
We can skype you whenever we can but, we just need to figure out when we wanna
do it. dec 21 to 28 is our time for when we can. It'll probbly have to be more at the
end so I can let you know. We have a Mtc teacher in the other missinaries ward
(bagbag elders) so we will try to use him to call you. idk becuase we gotta talk to him first.
sorry this is a mess as always, only a little bit of time.
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