Hello everyone! thank you so much for all your birthday wishes! I had a great birthday, my second and final birthday on my mission was a great and memorable one!
This week was crazy.... I have found that here in the Philippines you will have a weird crazy week pretty often and I had not had one in a while so this week made up for that haha.
So Tuesday was pday, because of transfers and it was a pretty normal pday. I bought a sweet Filipino basketball jersey and we ate at Bon Chon which I really love, great day. Wednesday came around...it was a whack day. First of we went to an appointment we had with a family, the Toting Family. they talked to us at church and sister asked us to come over and teach all 12 of her kids who were all not yet members but all wanted to be. I was excited to go teach 12 new people but when we got there only 4 of them were home. After trying hard to get them to sit still we decided to just teach them outside by their doorway. All the kids said the mom was gone and so we just started teaching them. About halfway through the lesson a closet door slammed shut in the house, i was kinda freaked out because i though the house was empty. Elder mahinay asked the kid to go check who was in the closet. The kids looked and said no one was in there, we continued but the door slammed again. this time me and mahinay looked at each other like there was a ghost or something in the house we didn't know what to do. We finally finished the lesson and we hear a sneeze coming from the closet. We new that someone was in there but the kids would not tell us who it was....it was weird so we walked down the street and then we decided to go back to try and catch who was in the closet, we came back and looked in the house to see sister Toting hiding in the closet hahahaha. She was drunk and did not want us to see her drunk so she somehow squeezed herself in the closet while we taught her kids. Weird.
Later that day we got home and Elder Mahinay took a drink of water, He started choking but got over it and said his chest really hurt. I asked if he was ok and he said he was. He walked out into the study room and then sat down for a while, i was not looking at him but i heard a sound like something had fallen on the floor, i see elder mahinay laying on the floor totally unconscious his head had hit one of the dumbbells and his water was spilled all over the floor. I did not know if he was joking with me or not (he always messes with me). After about 5 seconds of him not moving I bent down to make sure he wasn't dead. he didn't move. another 5 seconds passed and his head shot up and he took a deep breathe and had no idea what he was doing on the floor, he had no idea what happened. He had a big bump on his forehead and he was wet from the water. He was pretty scared, and he said that he thought he was dead.....I was pretty scared too and I am lucky that somehow he came to. We talked and laughed about it for a while, so until now he is sore and his head has a bum on it. Be careful how you drink water.
Another crazy and also sad thing this week was that we went to a birthday of the Joves dad, when we got there we found that brother and sister Joves were drunk. I was pretty upset and mad about that. Their kids bap date was set for next Saturday and so we might have to talk about that before that goes through. They still sent us home with food and the food was frog adobo...but it tastes just like chicken, not bad. On our way home as we were waiting for a jeepney I OYM'd someone and taught him a full lesson 1 while on the jeep, it was pretty cool and I timed it perfectly so after i testified of the message we hopped out of the jeep, I felt like i was in a movie or something hahaha. It is raining again like crazy and its flooding pretty bad in some spots in our area. We were not allowed to leave our house on saturday because of the rain, everything is wet even our clothes and bed sheets so it kinda sucks. Sunday we were only allowed to leave for stake conference and it was flooding pretty bad, gratefully it didnt rain during the conference at all, once we got back in our house it started up again. Today as well it hasnt stopped, its a good thing that our house is on a hill, so our house is good but some of the zone members houses have flooded so they had to move to another place.
Sorry this is so long, this week felt really long. I love the time i am having here, I know the gospel of Christ is real and true. Jesus Christ lives, he is our savior and redeemer. Have a great week!
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