Pizza

How yall doing? Everything is going pretty good over here in the Philippines. Had a pretty good week, and had quite a few investigators come to church, so that was pretty cool. And the highlight of the week was that during sacrament

meeting, our rest hymn was hymn #209, or Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Yes, that's a Christmas song, and yes, it's still Sept. But here in the Philippines, we start Christmas a little early. In fact here in the mall they have Christmas trees, and they have Christmas music playing,and the houses are starting to put up Christmas lights. Kinda funny.

This last tuesday was also the birthday of Elder Burog, my comp. We bought a cake, and some ice cream, and had a member cook some food for us. All in all it was a pretty good day. Sure got full. Seemed like every house we went to we got fed food.Then the rest of the week has been a pretty normal week. We had a little CSP on Thursday, where we helped a lady clean off her walkway. It had a lot of moss on it, so it was kinda slippery. We scrubbed that off, then she fed us, which I call a fair trade. One thing I really like about this area isthere are a lot of members here that feed us. In some of my last areas, we didn't get very much food, but here we seem to get more.

I also went on an exchange this week with Elder Greenwell, or an elder in this zone. We had a pretty good time. It's always interesting when two Americans work together. First off, all of my comps. have been Filipino, and probably will be until the end of my mission. It's just weird to be walking down the street and then talking English to someone. It's even more funny to see people trying to listen to us and try to understand what we're saying, even though they can't. After the exchange on Thursday we had an interview on Friday. One of our investigators got interviewed and if everything goes as planned he should be getting baptized this coming Saturday, so hopefully that happens.

Saturday was just a normal day in the office, taught some lessons, and stuff like that. On sunday we went to church, as usual. We had quite a few investigators show up, 12, so that was really cool. It always feels good to have an investigator come to church, especially 12. Hopefully they had a good time and all that.

Then today was p-day. We had a meeting this morning, then had a basketball tournament. It was super hot, about 88 degress with something like 90 percent humidity, and direct sunlight, but we still played, and actually had a pretty good time. After that we went to Pizza Hut (yes they have Pizza Hut in the Philippines) and ate a pizza! It was awesome. Haven't tasted

something that good in a long time. After that we came to the internet shop, and I'm now emailing family. Anyway the church is true. We are so blessed to be members, so love yall.
Elder Farnsworth