Oct. 10-16, 2011

Another great week, and we are so stinkin busy, with the zone, the branch, the leaders, the less active, the former investigators, the new investigators, the partmembers, activities, and now transfers! Geez! But its way fun. =) we have alot of new investigators right now and we are really excited for them, alot of them are also partmember families where if we get them back to church it will be a convert and reactivation! Which we really need in this small branch here. But this last week we had a great service project at a less-active family. We built a kubo/place to cook for Sister, so she can cook outside even when its raining. So it wont be all smokey in their house. It was cool, all out of bamboo. Also for preparation day last monday we got to go up to Mt. Samat!!! Where the big awesome cross is! Its like a tribute or a shrine after the war with th Japanese in WW2. It was pretty sweet. But we couldn't go into the cross and up to the top because there was no electricity, couldn't use the elevator! That was with the whole zone. Alot of our new investigators are way awesome, we just got to know them pretty well, and we are excited to go back to them and teach. Also there are some kids who are way fcool and funny, they say I look like and call me Prince William. What the flip. haha. We also made a surprise visit on some missionaries in our zone to see how there doin and if they are awake and studying as they should. And it turned out... they weren't. Thats one new responsibility that me and my comp have to do is help out the zone! By doin surprise visits and exchanges. We had an exchange with the Orion elders. I was with Elder Erickson in Limay and it was way sweet! He is the district leader here and he is almost done with his mission and goin to go home, prabobly tomorrow. He is way tall, mush taller than me, so it was funny to see everyone stare at us. haha. This is also the last week of the transfer so we will have alot of changes this week, but me and my comp are still here. I am now feeling more and more comfortable in tagalog than i am in english. Its nuts. Here's the tagalog alphabet(abacada) thought you guys might want to know it... A, B, K, D, E, G, H, I, L, M, N, NG, O, P, R, S, T, U, W, Y. Its a little different than the english one. haha. Also i found this cool poem and quote that explains a mission pretty well, "The Best Two Years Of My Life" by Susan Hiatt Biggs, and "The Man and The Rock" by Sharon Miller. Find those on the net, there really good. Well, i think that pretty mush it. Love you guys! - Elder Pennock