Exciting week - famous Filipino delicacy!

This has been a real exciting and fun week. So you all will want to read this. :) On Wednesday we had a whole Alaminos district community service project with about 70 members at a local elementary school here in Alaminos. We picked up trash, did yard work, painted, and cleaned up classrooms. We also ate lunch and some played basketball, including me. :) It was way cool. But, I got real sunburned from it, cuz we were in a hurry to get there. Oh and we wore those sweet yellow Mormon helping hands vests.
I have also been learning a little bit of Ilocano, a popular language her. Like (I'm not sure about these spellings, I just know how to say it), whun - yes, aan - no, awhun - nothing, ditoy - here, naimbug na maluum - good afternoon, naimbug na rabii - good evening. Pretty awesome.
We got temple dedication interviews this week so we can watch the Cebu temple dedication. It's gonna be so sweet!
On Friday in the morning we went to one of the counselor's fish ponds to help him harvest his fish. That was way cool too. We watched all the hired hands drag the net through the whole pond and get a bunch of fish. We helped too and got a little dirty. He gave us 10 fish too, called Bangos. They are good, but have a ton of really small bones. We brought them to our house and took the scales off and gutted them. Way fun! :)
One day we were teaching a drinker, the nephew of the other branch counselor, and 3 other guys came up and listened in and wanted to know more. So, we got their names and addresses and gave them 11 pamphlets. Astig!
Also before a lady came up to me on a bike, she spoke English and invited us to share with her some day. So a few days later we found her. I didn't get her name but we were able to find her cuz she is like the only one with a bike. We taught her and gave her a book of Mormon. It went really well.
One time at the bus stop a teenage boy talked to us and said he had a friend who was a missionary like 2 years ago. Then I sat with him on the bus and showed him my pictures of my family and stuff and gave him a pamphlet. He was way cool and said that his missionary friend showed him pictures too. He was really glad about the pamphlet too. Really cool.
We had a party for the sister missionaries, one is leaving and has a b-day, we had bread and ice cream. Here they have big rolls and put ice cream in it. It's actually pretty good. I also ate the famous Filipino delicacy then too, Balut! the duck in the egg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg) First you open it and suck out the juice. Then you take bites of the duck. It's not too bad. The juice is like chicken noodle soup. :) I also ate goat this week. :)
On Sunday we went to a member's house and next door there was a party for a 2 year old girl. On the porch a bunch of guys were drinking, then two started fighting. It turned into a big quarrel trying to separate them, everyone was involved, even the wives and kids. They were all cryin too. Not cool at all. We were going to go help but sister told us to get back into the house. The police showed up after a while. Way crazy.
Oh and the tag-ulan is here now. The rainy season. It was crazy. We saw the dark clouds comin in so fast after the fireside on Sunday. It covered the whole sky, then it started pourin. Crazy. At least it's not too hot anymore. Our investigator family didn't come to church this week because they have a farm and it's busy time for farming cuz of the rain. We didn't go back to the catholic investigator with the beer bottle this week. We probably won't go back for a good while.
Well that's all for this week. Elder Pennock