February 9, 2010

mooooooooo!

hello, um, I am in the philipines! oh right. I also realised it was...
my birthday. (i forgot, it was earlyer this week, because days and
weeks seem to last longer when you do stuff everyday, and get up
before 11.)

well.... here something i was talking to sherry about...

that lanuage thing... that is exactly me right now. besides when i am
reading emails, and then typing, i have a really hard time with some
english. but i also have a really hard time with tagalog. hahaha soo
true. Some thing you wrote about just coummitating, and not
traslating. thats me right now. but still hard though. I also have a
theroy.. I think my taglog is better then i think it is... the problem
is that is
my understanding isnt as good as it could be... meaning my taglog is
right,... but i dont understand what am saying... yep. its werid right
here in this spot.

oh well I just got the trasfer annocement, i am going to my 2nd area
tomorrow. In our mission we have trainee, follow up trainee, and
co-senior. I will be with my first co-senior companion tomorrow. or
thurs.

and

to heidi about 'james' the leagad here in my city (and neghboring areas)

about running... ok so there is this dude. white guy. lives in this
area. is a leaged amoug the philipines in my area. Everyone seems to
know of him. And they super respect him. all I know is he knows
tagalog and ilkano (the native here) lanuage super well, he goes
running and biking through these areas alot, and that his name is
james. running. makes you rad. Oh also, he only wears ... like a big
belt thinging. thats it. and has a really big beard. like a cave man.
I asked if that is normal anywhere, to my companion... he said no.

oh anyways... i heard dad ran a marathon??? thats crazy. i think just
on his own.. but... for like 7 hours? i dont know if i understood
right... but he is rad. more then i have ever ran...

the end.

Oh! i found the defintion of 'mabaho' it isnt stinks; its "ill-smelling"

yep. heidi mabaho.

To larrys family, because i was inpressed with the nerd-ness of my family.

thats awesome about derek and spencer in the chess tornaments. I
played in a chess tronament once... i was a sub. And i won one game.
The other guy was cheating my getting help from his mom. And then mom
(grandma) stood up, and she stoped, he got scared, and a couple pieces
fell down. I put them back on, and then i got check mate. I thught
about it earlyer, and relised that, i am not sure if i put them in the
right place... oh well i cheated less. haha.

Also super awesome about dereks baptism.

dad asked about trasnfers:

about the trasfers. How the mission works now.. every thing is on a
6-week trasfer system. the most common is to be in a area for 3
trasfers (4mounths) (like this time for me) and have 2 different
companons (they pass the area to you, you pass the area to someone
else). 4 trasfers (6 months) is the next most common. here you could
have 3 compaions (like 1 T. then 2 T. then 1 T.) or 2 companions (2 T,
2 T) or other combination. After that the most common its just 2
trasfers (3 months), (1T, 1T). 1 Trasfer is rare in a area, usally
special reason only. also 5 trasfers (its heard of, but very rare).

I figure Ill have 5 areas for my whole mission and about 10 compaions
(well 11 if you count the MTC).

also, was thinking about how my speed game that jimmy put up for
sale... 58 more people thought my program was worth a doller, than
jimmys pick the nose game. i am rad.

ok well there is some random stuff, that people might want to know,

um ok well here is whats up with, me.

as i was mentching before, i am being transfered. we are going to meet
in carbonatuon and then go to my area. My area is san hosea
(maybe..)well thats the zone. i forgot wwhat it was. And i forgot who
my companion will be. oh well. someone knows. prolly.

also, i had a plan, this time, instead of writing random stuff, i was
going to structor my email to make it more readable (so far, i am not
doing too good., i guess late is better then never)

so monday (jan 31) p-day. email (last week)

FHE- Rocapor family.
um, here I gave the lesson. My idea was to teach something... but i
didnt really make since. sorta like, repentance or chooseing the
right, or not ... knowing. anyways. They couldnt understand me
anyways.
But I made some drawings first. i had a piece of paper with 2 paths,
one lead to a hut and a family, and one lead to a dragon. Well I didnt
know how to draw a dragon... well sotra. I started with a s, and then
a more differnt s. sooo pretty much i drew tragdor. The house/hut...
actally looked a ton like the houses with tragdor too. That i didnt
plan.
Anyways we played some games, one were we dumpped water on someones
head if they got .. the right anwser. like a guessing game. I learned
some tagalog this way too.

Tuesday (feb 1)

After studys - double punted! meaning both of the places were going,
werent avilable.
but we did talk to some people, or 'oym'. meaning we talked to them,
told them what we are about, and tryed to get a return apointment. One
was carrying a very large bowl, for collecting fish, the other was
doing the landery.

Later after lunch. we taght Jerem Garino. about L2Q2. (plan of salvation).
We then took Jerem with us, and we teaching. yes he is an investigater.

We when to teach sister Luna. I wrote. 'read'. I dont remember
anymore, that was so long ago now.
Then we went across town to Escardos. When we got there, we were just
going to leave, because there was a moive on. But then they turned the
movie off, so we had to stay. There was also about 20 people there
too. well 5 of them were little kids. ...well little kids are easier
for me to talk to, because.. i have learned you dont have to use
words, if you dont want to. So I started by pointing to my nose,
ilong, then my eye, mata, ear, tanga. well i always say ear wrong... i
dont think its actally tanga. then they corrected me, and we started
talking. I am rad. (something i am realising... people try to respect
people here, so they dont like to correct my tagalog... my plans of
speaking bad tagalog to learn are ruined! well little kids still
will.) We then gave a short message.

Weds (Feb 2) (groundhogs day)

In the morning I desided to make a spritial learning/impressions
jorenal. In person study i learned learned a ton about prayer (at
least for me). (mos 11:23-25)

We had 8 lessions. buzy day.
In the first one in the afternoon, Elder yap had me start. And I
failed. Eventally Elder yap, just taght the rest of the lession. After
that one, I desided, i was going to just be optimisic about my
teaching, and try to talk to the person. After that I still started
the lessions but they went a ton smoother.

people keep telling me I cant leave. One person, Jen Depale, a former
investigater (mom of one of my converts, jomark) came up to me. She
said that I should request a extention. Then she said that She would
get the neiborhood to build a wall of people and not let my ride
leave. I told her, i dont know if thats a good idea. Then she told me,
to mail her a letter, and she would visit, and kidnap me. yep i am
rad.

When we were teaching a investigater, wein lachica. I disided to start
with... do you have any questions for us? She says yah, actally. so
why do you as missionarys always tell people like me to come to
church? is it because your numbers are too low or something? So we
desided to teach about sabbth day.
Later I ask a question or say something, i dont remember wat it was,
but she responds with, hmmmm well so when does your church end? I win.

Another investigater, Olive.. something. she is a former investgater..
who never came to church before. We read a scripute about being full
of the words of Christ. Then later I say something like, "food is good
and makes us full. .. and scriptures are yummy." didnt really make
since nor did my tagalog. Then she was like, well I think i understand
now, I think i should read that reading assienment., yah, that would
be good, then i will be full. I was very confused what just happened.

For lunch, I had made a very delisious fried rice. with everything.
onion, garlic, tomato, egg, rice, cabbage, pineapple, carrot, potato.
it was very yummy. Later there was left overs. The leftovers tasted
like leftover pizza.

About Jerem. He is 18 old. I had made a book mark for him, from a
picture of Christ. He missed the baptism last week, because, he was
reading the book of mormon. He stayed up till 4 am once reading. He is
in 2 ne 16. thats rad.

I got a package for my birthday.
It was from a friend, very unexpected. But pretty sweet non the less.
(ow, my fingers are tired now)
There was a good amount of dry jello. thats good. 6 boxes. And some
cards, letter, and this collection of missionary letters that made it
to facebook. I saw a picture of my roomate craig, who is in
florda,tampa mission, doing the thumbs up with his roomate...
ghhahagha.

I showed that to my branch mission leader. He like most philpinos, i
think, understand basic english from school, but dont use it. So he
was reading first from something Reid Jones, my elders quorm Prez,
back at school... something like, every sunday we eat
burritos,(getting our mexican on).. hahaha he asked me what that
ment... haha, i was unable to explain.haha

Thus.
We had a CSP with Jerem. we cut down some plants. Then we found out we
cut down, Jerem's moms kamoti plant. doe. We then got a coconut, and
made a coconut drink. Then we went down to beach, because we couldnt
leave... his mom was making us food. yum.

later we talked with some people who were bragging about how they used
to hide from the missionarys, and run into the forest. (hmmm i think i
am runnning out of time, doe).

Our last lession that day, we went to an inactive members house the
curezma. We desided to talk about enteral marriage... tthen we found
out they had already been through the temple. Then we invited them to
a FHE... well our branch mission leader did. That would had been fine,
but we alreay had an apponitment.. doe. oh well, they still gave us
cookies.

Friday

We had our last weekly planning as compaions.

At lunch time, we had a splits. someone cooked fish. Its wasnt too
bad. but i dont tihnk i was supposes to eat the little bones. oh well.

Me and an amereican elder worked together. in our mission that is
really really rare.

First we went to a guy, who calls himself, blind and the bulrrly eye.
When we were teaching him, just started talking. I some how used some
words that i had never could figure out before, very well. I know they
made since, because after we were finshing, he wanted to get to know
me now.

tryed an oym. Got denied.

taghouht micha. she is a 11. She also had 12 other primary kids
there.. haha that was intersting.
(skipping...)
wait. I was giving purple goo.. but, this purple goo was good. unlike
last purple goo.
Elder Lofgren, gave a nickname to one of the little kids, 'taba'.
which really just means fat.

later we taght more.

(hmmm really out of time)

ok well on Sat.

we tryed to oym a swidish guy. failed. he gave us an evil eye.
We did oym an old man, who was 85, making brooms thou.
other stuff.... nagbangsit. its ilikno for mabaho, Its used like heidi
is nagbangsit.

I had a pretty cool experence the other day. Me and Elder Yap, went to
an old former investigater. The rest of the family was sleeping, or
gone, but we shared a message to lola (grandma) and a child. Elder
yap, wanted me to start the lesson to help me I guess. As we were
talking with her, before we started, I had desided to teach something
else. After the prayer, I just started to talk. I don't even remember
what the lession was on anymore. After giving a piece of knowleage,
asking some questions... Elder Yap starts. And It seems he knew
exactly were I was going, and thoughts i hadn't even started towards.
Obovlisly, he was prepared for our topic, even not knowing what it was
before hand. He pulled scriptures as, if we planned it this way. it
went very smoothly. After we ended, after the prayer... we were about
to leave, and we desided to ask, how do you feel right now. She told
us that she felt really good, and that she felt a warm feeling in her
chest. I was a little speechless to hear, someone say that, in that
way... we testifyed about the holy ghost. She also said that she
wanted us to come back, and wrote down the scripurtes we read. We gave
her some more, because we saw how ready she was to learn. I think
about that... and think, how did that happen... but actally I know.

um, more random stroys about tagalog. um,

oh rocapor- lession. the little girl there, said that i was going to
tell a story. sooo i went for it. I told a story about Prez. Hinkley
told everyone to read the scrptures, and how i finished on dec 27. I
tahought a bunch in that lession. I wote"gonna miss those guys'

lots of stuff on monday.

got a haircut, got hit on by a 2nd grader. cool FHE. I had to ...

With Rocapor family. I had a pleasent suprize. We were going to have a
FHE, with the rocapors, and a couple other resent converts. We had
everyone execpt for tatay. They said he is reading. So then they had
me go over and to get him. He was reading really. He was in jacob 5. I
was very impressed. He said he was tired... but eventally he came. I
hate telling people that they should put the book of mormon down.

um pretty much last lessions, some really cool. and good byes. um

oh, the elders in our zone were getting really mad at each other over
somthing dumb. so i desided to use this fight, thing, as a language
study... i dont think i helped.

pretty much i am being trasfered... and i will never write this much
again the end.

elder dickinson

ps. that wooden cow was given to me. I am rad.