So I have some bad news. The people I let borrow my camera they kind of deleted all my photos so I don't have any pictures today. I have 1 or 2 that members emailed me I can upload those. Besides that we finally got a progressing investigator. We are going to give her a baptismal date this coming week so that should be good. We also just reactivated another member so that's good. We're going HAM on the less-actives. Besides that people tell me all the time that my Tagalog is fluent. I don't really believe them, but I haven't really had any problems for a long time. I've officially hit and passed my 6 month mark. It's going so fast I can't believe it. Tomorrow we have the Christmas devotional. So we are allowed to skype any day this week. This Friday we'll go down to Ilagan so I can skype then. I'll try to go early, but bear with me travel here is kind of frustrating at times.
Me and Domingo have really stepped up our games this last week. We teach 6+ lessons a day and we are just killing it. Unfortunately we only have one dinner appointment for Christmas, but the best part is its with the one girl that I took pictures with before. Her family is awesome and her mom was allowed to come home for the Christmas season. Her mom works abroad in Qatar. I also am really serious about coming back here after my mission, but since tickets are so expensive we should probably start planning for that now. I plan to start working the minute I get back.
This week has been really nice. It's been a cool 60 all week. I actually want a jacket. I should have brought one, but I don't have money to buy one.
That's all I have this week. Thanks for the support.
Love,
Elder Swensen
Q&A
Who was transferred in your area?
My district leader,
zone leader, and the threesome in San Mariano got transferred.
Do you visit different barangays in Benito Soliven?
We don't go to different Barangays just the
same 3 D.1, D.2, and San Carlos. We decided it's pointless to convert people
if we don't have a ward. We area already having trouble with my recent converts
so that's why we focus on the LA's in the areas close to the church.
Have you eaten any interesting foods yet?
I've had
grasshopper, pig feat, balut, and snail. It was all good.
How are your living conditions?
We got lucky with our apartment.
It's actually really nice compared to other elders apartments. Some elders have
air conditioning though which is outrageous and stupid. Luckily though we
are kind of up in the mountain so it's cooler up by us.
Do you ever have dinner appointments?
Here we basically have 0
Dinner appointments. We had 1 the entire last cycle and we only have 1 for
Christmas with that same family.
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