Well, Happy Birthday America! As you all know I'm sure, today is the 4th of July, and to tell you the truth is was a pretty awesome 4th of the july here in the Philippines. I'll tell you a little bit more of what we did later, but lets just say that all in all this week was pretty awesome. We taught lots of lessons, got some people to come to church, ate some rice, helped some people clean their farm, just normal missionary stuff.
Well anyways, Tues. and Wed. were pretty normal days. We went out and worked and talked to a lot of people. I've always been amazed at how nice the people are here in the Phillippines. They always talk to us, they don't always listen to our message, but they'll at least tell you that, well kinda. So that last sentence was kinda confusing, but I'm sure if you ever served a mission in the Philippines you'd understand. This last Thurs. we ended up going weeding at a farm of a less active family. I don't know if you all remember that was one thing I never liked doing at home, and lets just say it's still not one of my favorite things, but it's always nice to help out people that need it. It was a pretty big field that we ended up weeding. After the work they got us some coconuts from their trees, and cracked them open and gave them to us to drink. Kinda cool.
This last Friday, we had a Branch Family Home Evening, or called a branch party in America. It was really fun, even though only a few showed up. We some really fun Phillippino games, and ate some food. We were hoping a few less active families would show up, but it was mostly active families, but it was really fun. The only problem is it took a lot of our time for teaching. So what we did on Saturday, we had a super Saturday. We went out early, came home for lunch a little late, and then went out early again in the after noon. It was funny 'cause even though we worked the whole day, we ended up only getting four lessons, which isn't bad, but it isn't what we goaled for. But the cool thing is that this last Sunday we got a lot more lessons than we planned for, so we were happy for that. We also found some new investigators. One set read the BofM after the first time we gave it to them, we even forgot to give them a reading assignment. That's really rare, so we were surprised. We also contacted an old investigator, who is really cool, so we're excited for the work here in Muñoz.
Today was of course 4th of july and it was really pretty awesome. First off we went to CLSU or the universtiy here, and played some basketball. It was pretty sweet. The three elders who went and played (me, Elder Schnieder, and Elder Adriano) all wore jerseys so we looked like we were real basketball players. In fact everyone I'm sure thought we were ball players from America. Anyways we got a lot of college kids to play with us which was pretty fun. It was actually pretty good competition. One of the Filipinos could actually dunk it. Yup, he could dunk it. He was about my size, but he had hops, so it was pretty cool. But don't worry we ended up winning. After that Elder Schneider and I went to the store here and bought all the American food we could find. We're going have an American barbeque for the 4th of July. Got some hot dogs, hamburgers, lays chips, and we're going to make some french fries. Make sure and stay strong in the faith.
