Walang work....

Another week of getting ready for the transfer tomorrow, and it was a veeeeeeery busy one. Our week basically came down to planning, planning, and more planning, with just a little bit of work in when we could find the time. It started with our MLC on Tuesday for which all of the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders came to Naga. It was an awesome time and we just discussed some of the challenges facing the mission and what we could potentially do to help the missionaries overcome them. I think my favorite part was just everyone talking about raising sacrament meeting attendance, and what we've all been doing to help less actives come back to church. Everyone had a lot of great ideas. One Friday, we also had a zone training and talked about teaching skills and what we can do to become more effective teachers.

Besides that, our week was mostly just putting together travel plans and everything else for the upcoming transfer. My companion will be heading home, so we had to try and get everything finished as soon as possible, so it wouldn't be too much of a rush today. It ended up killing a lot of our time for work,but we did try something new to find people interested in listening. We set up a projector and screen in the centro of Naga to play the Because He Lives video, the only problem was it started pouring once we did and so there weren't very many people out on the streets. But we still had decent church attendance despite the rain. One of our investigators even walked to church. I don't know exactly how far it was, but farther than I've seen most people willing to walk, so that was cool.

Highlight of the week may have been mixing it up foodwise. haha. Every week 6 of each transfer, we have a meeting with President and Sister Reeder and the other missionaries in the office to plan our week with transfers and then have an awesome lunch. And this time Sister Reeder made enchiladas, which is the first time I've had Mexican food in 21 months. And to top that off, we had banana cream pie. What?! When I thought the week couldn't be better, we were invited yesterday (Sunday) to have lunch with one of the senior couples here. And what did we have? Pork roast with mashed potatoes and gravy, and banana cream pie. Again. Those things don't exist here, and I don't know how she made it all, but it was great. We all had to lie down for a bit after that.

Well I hope you all had a great Easter. I was grateful for the chance to try to focus more on the Atonement. It's really different here, peoples' concepts of what it's all about. They parade around statues of saints and do penetensiya (punishing themselves as repentance) and all other sorts of stuff, and I'm just thankful for our knowledge of the truth of the Atonement of Christ and the freedom it gives us. We are so lucky that He would do that for us, even if at times we don't really deserve it. Actually, a lot of the time, we probably don't. But that's what makes His sacrifice all the more beautiful. Love you all and hope you have another great week!