The last 2 weeks of e-mails. Sorry behind yet again
sigi, kini mao ang pinaka lisod semana para sa amo, pero sa pinaka makalilisanggihapon. naa mi daghan mga appointments uban sa mga investigator. kami sa 25 mga leskyon. unta karon semana sa pinaka maayo, na mi 29 mga leskyon giplano. kon dili nasabtan kini, paggamit sa GOOGLE paghubad.
so this week the overcast or system of low pressure finally moved over! finally after 17 days of no sun, and waking up to clouds and super "cold". the reason i say super cold is because it is always HOT here, so when it is about 68 degrees no one likes it. everyone was wearing like thick winter jackets!!! it was super funny, they were asking Elder Ewell and i if we were cold, of course we weren't. we tried to explain that this was still hot compared to the states right now!!!
So this week i guess we had some funny moments, we were walking, (mainly cause it makes great homecoming talk subjects and what not) and i was holding a leaf, i saw a dog just following us because i guess it thought we had food for it... and i tossed the leaf at it, it hit the dog (mind you this is a leaf) the dog started whining and running away yelping like i just shot it with a gun!!! it was so crazy!!!
last week we had some pretty cool teaching opportunities, we have an investigator that has some physical issues, he is about 15 years old, we had to teach him how to pray... it was almost like teaching a 4 year old, i taught him by example, so i would say something and then he would repeat it. it was so awesome, i now know what my parents felt like when teaching me and my siblings how to pray...
last Friday we had a SUPER DUPER busy day!!! we had a total of 12 lessons planned out for the day, and we defiantly had the potential to get all of them... but we ended up only getting 6 of the 12 we wanted. which, don't get me wrong, is an amazing amount of lessons to get in one day.
Saturday we had probably the worst lesson so far!!! we were teaching a bunch of kids Nika, Kate, Russel, and their 2 cousins, all under the age of 11... they didn't pay attention to what we were talking about, and were super distracted, there was no way we could feel the spirit, and it was like 10 minutes. they didn't show respect to their grandpa... it was just super hard all the way around...
but yesterday we went back and their mom was there (she is an RM very LA) we had about a 2 hour(very long i know) conversation with all of them on why they think that we come over, and just about our purpose, hopefully they start acting more their ages, and acting for themselves and stop relying on us so much. they have been receiving the missionary lessons for the last 1 year and about 3 months...
so in the MTC the teachers were saying that the people here are super kind, and that they are super honest... Sister Powell also said that if you are bigger than a Filipino that they would call you FAT, or TAMBOK, i didn't believe them until this week, when i almost went through the floor of a house... it was so crazy. so the floors are made out of bamboo sheets just across some 2X4's, i happened to step right in between the 2X4's and my foot went in!!!
oh yeah, so there were a couple of other dogs fighting and i threw a rock purposely trying to miss them. then they started to run, i picked up another rock and just tossed it up and random, one of them ran under it. and from about 50+ yards away you could just hear it yelp. it was so crazy, i didn't think i could even hit them. i wasn't trying... (ASHLEE don't judge me)!!!
I think that is about all for the weekly Email...
If any of you have any questions or comments just ask them.... it is hard trying to write without stuff to write about, or to answer any questions...
This week....
well i have no clue what week it truly is, it all just feels like one super big day! with of course short naps in between!
this week we had another RM in the ward where i am serving, he is OVER KUGI, or OVER DILIGENT!!! he is the son of one of the less active members that we are teaching, day 1 of him being home, he saw his brother for the first time in 2 years and started to chastise him for not reading his scriptures. he is just not fun for anyone to be around...
on Thursday we had the R.M. kuyog with us or i guess accompany us to the lessons. we went to a recent convert... he didn't say anything until the end and then at the end he just started saying what the sister was doing wrong and what she needed to do to be better, but it was NOT in a loving way, oh yeah, and he wasn't nice about it at all... i refuse to take him anymore with us... he is just not helpful to us!!! we took him home and then went to another lesson, this was our last lesson for the day i extended baptismal commitment to them and they finally said yes!!! the 11, 9, and 8 year old... they are super hard to teach, and they have flat out refused the commitment before, so we are slowly making progress...
on Friday we had a community service project (CSP) we went and used our sundangs (machetes) to help cut down trees and make a path! we were there for about 4 hours, we did the CSP for 3 and then went in and had a snack, ate some pan(bread) and binignit, i am not sure what it is, it was like hot chocolate stuff, not my favorite.. so after the CSP we had to walk home because it was raining really hard, it was about an hour long walk because of where we were at and where we had to go! once we finally got home Elder Ewell was feeling sick, so i had him check his Temperature, because i am just the boss man... he had a fever of 102.2, so yeah that isn't good as a missionary... we didn't have any water so we went to get some and then we just went back home... Later in the evening there was a lot of wind, we had been hearing rumors of a typhoon coming, but we had heard about those a lot! but there was a typhoon on Friday night, it was only a 2 so it wasn't too bad, but now i can say i went through a typhoon!!
Saturday was weird, nothing felt right for the entire day! we went to a baptism... of course Elder Ewell was feeling better, we were the only two people at the baptism other than the person being baptized and the sister missionaries.... after the baptism the sisters wanted us to go to their area really quick to give an investigator that has cancer a priesthood blessing... it was super awesome, i was so nervous about it...
Sunday was another weird/off day! we found a super elect person after being punted 2 times... and then at church we have a member that makes customized jewelry, he is making a "CEBU EAST MISSION" ring for me, it is solid silver and then a CTR/PAM ring for 1000 pesos or 1500 for both!!! and then i will probably get a few more things too! it is so crazy what you can get here for just a little bit of money.
on Monday we had 3 different kuyogs, they had no knowledge of what we were doing, they just made teaching so much harder... it feels like we just cut some ropes to the bridges that we have been building with the members, and investigators... and then i had to do all of the teaching because elder ewell couldn't speak... laryngitis... and then the kuyogs we had chastised me because i am not perfect at the language... they were just super terrible i don't like having kuyogs any more!!!!
yesterday we had a sick day, couldn't really do much and i hated it because we couldn't do anything!!!
