So this was a kinda slow week. Didn't get a ton of lessons, but that was somewhat intentional. We decided we wanted to find and meet every less active in our area, even if we don't really get a chance to teach them. This turns out to be a lot bigger of a task than you would think. Here, people don't actually have addresses, so you just go to an area and ask around. So we separated our area into pieces and have started going to each place to find the members there. The lucky thing is we usually have at least one active member there to ask about the less actives. Problem is, we found out a bunch of them have actually moved away, but are still on our list for some reason.
Me and my district rat hunting!
Rats on Rice
Saturday was a super rough day though. We planned our whole day around a Family Home evening that the branch had set up with a less active family to work on activating them. Then we get there and not one member showed up. We tried texting and calling everyone, but nobody replied. We did have a couple lie to us and say they were busy. Then we visited them, and they weren't actually doing anything. haha I love this branch.
Highlight of our week was probably Sunday. Despite the FHE falling through, that family still came to church. We had 9 less active members attending church, the highest number I've had since I got here. They all seemed genuinely happy to be there too, although it was just as chaotic as usual. Philippines sacrament meetings are basically a free for all. Then afterwords I went and interviewed a family for baptism, which went great. We then returned to our area and were able to teach a couple lessons, one to a less active member that killed her husband. I'm still not sure whether it was an accident or on purpose though...She lives up in the mountains and sometimes people there are crazy.
Found this in the middle of nowhere!
At the beach
So all in all it was a pretty good week. We spent most of it without a fridge, because ours broke 2 weeks ago, but we finally got a new one. So now we are just preparing for the hurricane tomorrow. Love you all and hope you're doing great!
Elder Van Boerum
7/14/14
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