February 2, 2014: Week 15 Hello Again!

So this week was even crazier than last week.  There was so much to get done.  Im so tired haha!  Thats good though.  Thats how these things should be right?

Nothing too cool to tell this week, just the same old same old of the mission life.  Me and Elder Bausing did go on a trek through the middle of the bukid though.  Which resulted in him falling into the rice fields.  No good...  I'll put a picture in.

So this week we had MLC/DLC, Zone Training, And quarterly Interviews all on different days, and all in Cabanatuan.  The ride into Cab from where we live is about an hour and we had to get all of our lessons in on top of that.  So it was more like a marathon this week than a working week.

So were trying to find a house that is closer to our area, because we travel about 30 min to an hour every day to get to where we need to go.  So we finally found this awesome place.  Its way nice and what not, which is super rare for where im serving because its the middle of the bukid.  So we went to look at it again last night to kind of get a final on everything.  Well here in the Philippines its kind of first come first serve.  So as we walked up with the owner, to all of our surprise, there was someone moving into the house.  So confused we looked at the owner.... He walked up to them and said "2000 a month?"  They shook on it and he looked back at us and said "Sorry...."  Sooooo... Haha no more house.  

So my Tagalog is coming along really well.  If you dont believe me just listen to this story.  So me and Elder Bausing were walking looking for people to talk to.  So as usual a group of random guys yells "Joe!" at me, then asks "Where are you going?"  Then they will say all the other English they know, then ask how tall I am.  So this exact thing happened.  So we started talking to them.  And I've been picking up on things more and more lately, but for some reason I just wasn't following along with what was going on.  So Elder Bausing all the sudden looks at me and says "Joseph Smith" so without hesitation I start saying random things, and I realize quick that there is no way what I have just said can be related back to Joseph Smith.  But I figure that I can relate it back to Tomas S. Monson and try to say that our first prophet was Joseph Smith.... So I end my sentence with "Ang propeta natin ay Tomas S Monson.  Perro, magsalita kasama si Joseph Smith."  When I said it all the guys kind of looked at each other and one scratched his head.  So Elder Bausing jumped in and we finished and walked off.  So I turned to him and was happy because I had dug myself out of a hole so I asked him "Was that a good recovery??"  And he looked at me, and was laughing so hard that he could barely get out "Wow, I didn't know that Tomas S Monson and Joseph Smith speak with each other today."  Soooooooo yeah.  Turns out that that guy is the Barungy Captain also.  So like a political figure...  It was good :)

So yeah nothing really spiritual this week... that's probably not good haha.  We'll work on that this next week.  

Anyway I love you all.  Stay safe and read and pray always.