Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry I gotta be short again this week! The power has been out for a good 4 days now in my whole zone. Gotta love the Philippines.

This week was another pretty great one! Nothing too special, just a lot of working! Because of the outage, we've had to adjust our schedule because we can't really teach much past 6 p.m. anymore. But luckily we were still able to get some solid lessons with a couple Juben, Victor, and a couple other potential investigators! We ended up walking a TON this week though because we ran out of money and couldn't withdraw our support money because of the outage.

For Thanksgiving, we went all out. Or as much as you can when there's no power and you don't have a lot of money. We went and got a whole barbecue chicken, a couple bunches of bananas, a few pineapples, ice cream, and some grapes, which are super expensive here because they ship them from the U.S. Like 320 pesos for a kilo.

For our investigators, Juben and Victor are still progressing well. Juben even asked if we could start singing hymns in our lessons because he felt the Spirit in sacrament meeting when we sang. We also contacted a referral in one of the farthest parts of our area: a 15 year old girl who ended up being really receptive to our message. We think she has a lot of potential to be baptized in the upcoming weeks. We also taught another lesson to Bert, some 19 year old we found in the middle of nowhere. The lesson went pretty well, we invited him to church, and didn't think a whole lot of it. But as we were walking home last night, he randomly saw us in Centro Nabua and said he actually went to church. One whole city over! He had come to Nabua to try and find our meetinghouse, but when he couldn't he just found a tricey driver and asked for the Mormon church and they took him a town over. He loved it!

 We saw a Canadian guy out in the middle of nowhere too, and he was pretty funny. He just called out to us and came to talk to us, probably because we are the only white people he's seen in forever. He's living here with what we think may be his Filipino family. He knew we were missionaries but said he wasn't interested in the message just wanted to talk. He kinda seemed like he hates living here though haha.

Well I have to go now, but I love you all! I'll have more time next week!

12/1/13