Fun Week

Kamusta Kayo.

This week was indeed a very fun week. Full of fun adventures and stories.

The first one will start on Wednesday. We had some exchanges planned and we had planned to go to our one area with our investigators, so we get on the tricey and I have more often than not now gotten in on the side because there is more room for my head. So we get down to where we were supposed to get off. As I look back to see if any other forms of vehicles are heading toward me, I see a small child, that I happen to know pretty well, standing in a corner crying. So I do what anyone would do, I go and see what is wrong. Luckily he recognized us because he calmed down enough to be able to attempt to communicate. He had gotten left behind or something after school. So deciding that he was more important at that time, we asked if he wanted us to take him home. So after he said yes we started to go and he grasped on to three of my fingers and refused to let go, and once we got on our way, he was happy again with no more worries. We eventually talked to the mom later in the week...we left him with his grandma, dad was supposed to pick him up but was asleep, and the neighbors said that the American came and took him, which relieved her greatly she said.

Thursday we were back in Tabaco for a zone training, it was pretty good, a workshop on how important area books are.

Friday we had a lot of fun just looking for people. We had some pretty good opportunities to find people, but mostly they didn't want to
listen to our message, except one lady who was a little too busy at the time but she invited us back. She was making a wig; all wigs in
the Philippines I guess come from here too. Our favorite person of the day was a member of "I love Lola"-some Filipino church that I don't think they know what they believe, but what ever it was, he believed it with his whole heart.

Saturday we were once again in Tabaco, we had a district CSP. The Zone Leaders had planned for us to clean pig pens, yeah. It was pretty fun, except that there was one hose and two brushes for the 6 of us. So there was a lot of standing around. Then there was a baptism for the zone leaders, they baptised a whole family...pretty cool to see.

Sunday was pretty stressful. This was the third week in a row that we had fasted. (1st week, for our investigators, 2nd week, we don't know how we both thought it was fast sunday, 3rd week fast sunday for real)
The ZL's lost their cell phone and with out it they can't report the numbers to the mission president, so being the DL we were going to
Tabaco and give them our phone to borrow, which I was ok with me, if we planned it well enough so that we could work and go there too. So when Elder P made the decision of when to go, I wan't too happy with it because I
wasn't involved. So when we were at home I let him know, he agreed and we talked about the process that he went through to come up to that decision. It was a good discussion and the closeness of our companionship grew.

Well, I think that sums up this week. Next week seems even more busy. But excited to be lifted by conference. Keep it up where ever you are. I am doing my best to do that here. Thanks for the support.

Elder Westenskow