January 12, 2014: Week 12 Links Life dito sa philippines!

Hello Again!

So I'm a little bit later today sending this email because we got up early this morning and went to the driving range here in the city we live by!  We were there with a bunch of really rich Flipino people haha.  It was so funny!  Nice to just relax at the driving range.  I'm coming back PGA worthy.

So this week has been way good!  We had our first baptism since I have been here!  It was amazing to watch my companion baptize her.  There was a different spirit there for sure.  It was great.  We've taught a ton of lessons and everything, and this place is finally starting to feel familiar.  Its nice.  I was trying to remember how the states were the other day and its slowly fading away haha.  

But the best part of my week comes to you all in the form of a story.  So here we go. 

So we have only about 30ish member in our branch right now and we were short on priesthood holders to do sacrament.  So I had to help out and pass the sacrament.  So as we blessed the bread I go to walk back to the congregation and all the sudden from behind the fence that surround our meeting house (which is about 30 feet from the meeting house its self) I here a guy say "Americano!" and as I look over and am trying to pass the sacrament I see a Filipino dude and his friend jumping up and yelling "hey Joe" as their head comes over the fence.  How they even saw me in the first place is beyond me.  So I had to keep a straight face fore the rest of the sacrament as I was being " hey joe'd" by a few fellow Filipinos haha.  I had to laugh about that.  Anyway, that was too funny.

Our district had exchanges this week and me and the other trainee in the house with us went out to try it out.  Haha as you can imagine, they probably only understood half of what we said, but we had some good times.

Its rice season right now and they are just planting it all.  It looks so cool.  I never knew that growing rice was so complicated.  But they grow so much of it out here.  Pretty much everyone works in the "Bukid" or the country if you translate it into English.  Its so cool!

Oh man and last week for our zone activity after email we went bowling.  So I was expecting machines and stuff to pick up our pins.  But when we got there I was surprised to see them grab a few random little Filipino kids to run up under and set the pins back up after we were done.  It was so funny.  A sister hit one of the kids hahaha.  It was really sad, but funny.  Ill try and send a picture.

Sorry about the pictures not coming through.  Ill try to fix it this time!

Love you all!