Ryan's update to everyone...
So last week during Pday there was 2 brown outs during email time! The heat here is so crazy!!! totally not expected especially coming from UTAH!!! Because of the area i am in it feels like 110 degrees because of the pollution!!!
The last week my companion and i led the entire zone in stats!! we had 16 lessons, 35 GEOZ and with 137 FTE's, the rest of the zones average was 13 lessons, 12 GEOZ, and 40 FTE's! we had over half the GEOZ for the zone!
This week we got punted A LOT of times, we ended up going tracting, anywhere we go there are DAGHAN MGA BATA(a lot/many kids) because my companion and i are both 6' and we are both WHITE, so we went to a house and they invited us in, we taught them the lesson about the restoration, then after the lesson they offered us food, and we weren't sure what it was, but after about 10 minutes they told us what it was, (guess what it was), lets just say that DOG is not the best food to eat.... My stomach has been a little sick after that... This week we also had some blood pudding thing, not my favorite, but the Filipinos respect those who are willing to eat whatever is given to them(for the most part anyways).
There is nothing like walking down the road, or the trail and hearing some Filipinos yell "HEY JOE,"(a Joe is a rich American/foreigner that comes to the Philippines and dates younger Filippa's because they have money...) but my companion and i have decided that we will start making teaching opportunities of them!
This week we had a day that we were planning on teaching but those teaching appointments we got punted from, so we went tracting all over places, it was so awesome. we were able to explore more of our area.
We had a FHE(family home evening) this week, it was about a 15 minute motorcycle ride up into the bukid, and then we had to walk down about 200 stairs to their house once we got there there was a brown out!!! and then we had to power for the lesson so it was kinda hard for the lesson, but it needed to continue.
On Sunday night there was a HUGE rain storm. there was so much rain that there were rivers running through the road, it rained about 8 inches in about 3 hours, UNREAL!!! We were about 30 minutes walking away from our house, and it was even longer because of the rain.
Sorry ran out of time this week!!! Hope this helps you!!!
Oh yeah, this week we are going to Bogo Zone to help build houses after the Typhoon, we will be up there for about 3 days. i cant wait!!! i will take tons of pictures and hopefully email them next p day!!!
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-Elder Larson
Gihigugma ta
MO
(I LOVE YOU
ALL)
PS. this week we got to go to the temple again, but halfway through the session there was a brown out, and about 10 minutes later everything stopped. the temple has a giant generator because the power is very unstable here. but there was a gas leak and they had to shut it off... so we made it through half a session, and then they had to cancel the rest of the day because of the brown out!!! pastilan!!! oh well, we take what we can get!PS. this week we got to go to the temple again, but halfway through the session there was a brown out, and about 10 minutes later everything stopped. the temple has a giant generator because the power is very unstable here. but there was a gas leak and they had to shut it off... so we made it through half a session, and then they had to cancel the rest of the day because of the brown out!!! pastilan!!! oh well, we take what we can get!
Now what he talked with us about...
He was at a home for dinner and they fed him dog. He said his stomach was upset after eating and it didn't taste very well. He has also eaten pig skin, balut and blood pudding. YUCK!!!!
We talked about Christmas and that he will get to skype we just need to get more info and figure it all out.
We told him Justin Bieber was there helping out and laughed because when Ryan was in Australia he was there too.
He is really enjoying himself and the people he is meeting. The language is coming along well and he likes learning more.
He is really excite for the service he gets to do this week as well.
He is watching out for the sisters with all those big spiders there. He hit one with a leaf and when it died a pouch of babies came running out so he had to kill all of them too. He really is an inspiration to us all that no matter where you are or what you are doing being kind and thoughtful to those around you are what is very best.
Until next time....
PS. this week we got to go to the temple again, but halfway through the session there was a brown out, and about 10 minutes later everything stopped. the temple has a giant generator because the power is very unstable here. but there was a gas leak and they had to shut it off... so we made it through half a session, and then they had to cancel the rest of the day because of the brown out!!! pastilan!!! oh well, we take what we can get!PS. this week we got to go to the temple again, but halfway through the session there was a brown out, and about 10 minutes later everything stopped. the temple has a giant generator because the power is very unstable here. but there was a gas leak and they had to shut it off... so we made it through half a session, and then they had to cancel the rest of the day because of the brown out!!! pastilan!!! oh well, we take what we can get!
Now what he talked with us about...
He was at a home for dinner and they fed him dog. He said his stomach was upset after eating and it didn't taste very well. He has also eaten pig skin, balut and blood pudding. YUCK!!!!
We talked about Christmas and that he will get to skype we just need to get more info and figure it all out.
We told him Justin Bieber was there helping out and laughed because when Ryan was in Australia he was there too.
He is really enjoying himself and the people he is meeting. The language is coming along well and he likes learning more.
He is really excite for the service he gets to do this week as well.
He is watching out for the sisters with all those big spiders there. He hit one with a leaf and when it died a pouch of babies came running out so he had to kill all of them too. He really is an inspiration to us all that no matter where you are or what you are doing being kind and thoughtful to those around you are what is very best.
Until next time....
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