Waffle Iron

Well, I don't have a whole ton this week...the power stayed out until Friday. 8 days. So I didn't right a whole ton in my journal, but I will try to remember everything! The power was out because that company didn't pay their bill to the other power company. Again. 39 million pesos in debt I heard. Just grand. But now it's all worked out finally.

Last Monday we went to Naga! Really cool day there. Not a whole lot happened, but I did buy a waffle iron at the mall there! Too bad the power didn't come on until 5 days later. So I didn't get a whole lot of use from it until now. I'm takin that thing with me for my whole mission. Not super high quality or even safe. It burns you when you use the handle to lift the top to pull the waffles out. But it's still my waffle iron and I love it. One small luxury I have.

Wednesday was a cool day because we decided to work part of our area where we have never been before. When we tried to get the driver to drop us off at one road, he didn't hear us so took us to another. We figured we'd just go with it. We taught one family and tried teaching another old guy, but he for some reason was believing that Mormons and Catholics are the same. So we asked him if Catholics believed in the Book of Mormon and he said yes. So we kinda gave up on that guy. Then we kept goin down the road and turned down another that led through the rice fields. We eventually hit a dead end and turned around but on the way back, we hear some guy yell "Mormons?" so we turned around and some guy asks us to come talk with us. He tells us he always reads his Bible, but it's unclear to him so he wanted to hear what we have to say. Basically, we gave him the whole first lesson and a Book of Mormon. He read one verse and said "Wow! It's so much more clear!" So he, Rodie, is already starting to progress like crazy! That day we also finally got Juben's girlfriend to listen to us as we talked about temples and eternal families.

Thursday. Only thing really out of the ordinary was that we were walking down the street and some big lady was standing in the middle of the street and saw us and shouted "Wala!" which doesn't really make sense in the context in Tagalog, and she flipped us off. We just tried to walk past her but she kinda tried shoving us. We just think she was hungover from their fiesta the night before.

Friday was great because the power came back on and we celebrated with waffles! The celebration was also because we committed 3 investigators from the Group to be baptized! They seemed pretty confident in the decision so we are just going to keep working hard with them.

Saturday was another great day. We did try to visit Rodie, but when we got there he was drunk. He was really sorry though and kept saying he wanted to change his life and he knew we could help him. Later that night we visited Juben again and sung Hymns with him and his brother, then talked about Alma the Younger. We ended the night by visiting Matthew, an 18 year old that is working to become a cop. He is so quick on picking up the teachings, and says it all makes sense, asking awesome questions about prophets. He committed to pray about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.

Sunday was kind of tough for us. Although we had Juben and Victor come to church (which they loved) the others that committed flaked out. We went to go pick up some investigators before church, but the little kids said "Wala siya daw." Which basically means "She said she's not here." So...she was home. Later we tried to go to Jerry, a 12 year old investigator, but we think his priest must have talked to him because he was originally very receptive, then became hard core Catholic all of the sudden. Too bad. We just told him we still love him and left. 

So this whole week had it's ups and downs, but I'm still so happy to be working here in Nabua! The work is great and is only getting better! Love you all and have a great week!

12/8/13