This week has been a good one!
Another quick week, but so much has happened. Most importantly me and Elder Watkins perfected our Adobo. Adobo is a classic Filipino dish.
So I'll make it for all of you when I get back. It's so good.
Alright, alright. So I learned more about the Filipino culture today. So Filipino's love to watch things fight. Like
honestly everything. The biggest one being Cock Fighting. If you don't
know what that is... I'll tell you. So they raise these roosters and
make them really strong. They have like rooster workouts, no joke. And
they put a bunch of steroids in them. Then when they are ready, they
don't give them any food for 3 days. Then the day before the fight they
tie their head to a board so that they cant move, and they get really
really mad. Then they put them into an arena with another rooster who
has been put through that and they fight each other... Until the death.
Brutal right? Everyone
goes to the cock fights on the weekends. They have huge arena's that
they build for them... Like football arena's, but not quite as big. So
anyway, they love cock fights. It is as popular as Baseball is for us in the States. But lately when we come home I see a
bunch of people shining flashlights up into tree's and climbing in them
and everything. I've been so confused. But I figured it out. So February is the month when all of the spiders come out. So they go and
find these hugeeee spiders and sell them to people. They pay like 200
pesos (which is ridiculous) on these spiders. Then they bring them up
and do the same thing that they do to their roosters. Then they bet on
which one will win. Its crazy! So this week I have witnessed a few
spider fights. Awesome.
We are having a lull in our area right now... Its
rough. We have 3 investigators that are ready to be baptized, but they
can't right now. One has a problem with co-habitation. The other can't
get baptized until her Mom comes back from the Middle East. So that's
good right? Her Mom comes back at the end of 2016. Sweet. And sad
news... We haven't seen brother Dante in a few weeks. His family is
really tight on money so he had to go and take care of that... He has to
do what he needs to do.
But an amazing thing happened. So last week our Bishop told our group that he was scared that we would be dissolved if
we didn't get our less actives to come back to church. We average 25-30
members every week. So the ward got together on Saturday, every one of them, and organized a "One Day Mission" They all left Saturday morning and
spent the day visiting and teaching the less active members in our
group. The thing that was amazing about that is that they all live off
of rice, and right now the rice is growing, which means that everyone is
really really tight on money. But they decided that they
would sacrifice what they had and go to visit everyone. We had 55
in attendance this week, including over 10 less active members. The Bishop told me and Elder Bausing yesterday that he was about to submit
the papers for our group to become a branch.
The Lord will give back just as much, or more, as you are willing to sacrifice for him. It was an amazing experience.
Oh
yeah, and they have this thing called Scramble here. It's pretty much
sugar and milk and ice..... its so good. So yeah.... You're all missing
out :)
Love you all!
Until next week,
Elder Gordon
1. Me and Elder Choresca went on exchanges this week and got some scramble.
2. So this little cuties name is Princess. But she cant say her
C's. So we call her "Printess." She loves barbies and guns. Cutest
little girl I know.
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