Pretty busy week this week getting close to Christmas!
Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all. I can't believe it is here
already. Biggest news of the week is I got a new companion! His name is
Elder Taumalolo from New Zealand. He only has one more cycle after this
one until he goes home. He's so awesome. We have a lot of fun together
but when it is time to work he works hard. I'm really excited for this
cycle!
Tuesday- We went around
to different people for Elder Zabala to say bye to and he finished
packing. We had a lunch appointment with the zone leaders in their area
and they made potato salad! It was so good! They also spake pretty much
fluent English so it was really easy to talk to them. Later that night
we had our usual dinner appointment at the Plucena's house. We always
eat the same thing there every week but it's okay because it's pretty
good.
Wednesday- We got
picked up in the morning and went to Solano which is the transfer point
for the missionaries down south. All the transferring missionaries
continued up to Cauayan and the others stayed in Solano to wait until
the new companions got there. We had to wait for a long time so we went
to McDonald's then walked around Solano for a while. We went back to the
church and still had a long time to wait. One elder brought Uno with
him so we played a couple rounds. We had a ton of fun and then right
when we finished the second round the missionaries got there. I went and
met my new companion and then came back to Bambang. As soon as we got
here we went out and walked the part of the area that was close by. He
saw a lot of people he new before. About a year ago he was assigned in
Bambang zone but over the hill from where we are now. He went on splits
just once here in this area and everybody still remembers him from that.
Thursday-
Just a usual day. Went out to work in the furthest part of the area.
Everybody said either no, next time, or they just weren't there. We
ended up doing some finding since none of the people we planned for
worked out. After a long day of work we had dinner at the Peralta's
house again. We ate a lot there then went back home for the night.
Friday-
We had the Chrismas zone conference so we had to go all the way back to
Santiago which is like 3 hours in the van. Christmas party was a lot of
fun though. We listened to President and Sister Rahlf first. They
always do an awesome job teaching. Then we ate lunch and after lunch was
time for skits. As zones, we were given a bag of a lot of different
things in it and we had to use them in a skit. We had half an hour to
work on a skit. My zone acted out the Christmas Carol with Scrooge and
Tiny Tim and all that. It was super funny and a real good time watching
the other zones perform their skits too. Then to finish the meeting we
had a testimony meeting and then came back to Bambang.
Saturday-
Another good day today. Went to the other part of the area and worked
there for a while. Branch 2 had their Christmas party but we thought we
would join them in the celebration even though we are the missionaries
in branch 1. They roasted a pig for dinner which was amazing. The skits
that they did were also really funny. Overall it was an awesome day!
Sunday-
Kind of disappointing at church. We didn't have any investigators there
but one new less active came. Pretty cool because she told us to go
away and shut the door on us just two weeks ago. Tried to visit them
that night but every time we stopped by their house no one was there.
Pretty
good week again. We didn't get as many lessons as we have in the past
but we found 5 less actives just by tracting and they were excited when
we started talking to them. Also on Sunday we were out walking and,
jokingly, I said lets go OYM that house over there. It was a really nice
house that I have walked by quite a bit. Next thing I knew Elder
Taumalolo starts walking over there and we "Tao po" the door. A guy
comes to the door and invited us inside. We told him about the church
and shared a Christmas message about Jesus Christ. We asked if we could
come back and he said yes. Pretty excited to go back this week and start
teaching him and his family.
Everything
is going well here and I hope everyone is doing great back home! Hope
everyone has a Merry Christmas and I'll talk to you next week!
Picture of me and Elder Zabala.
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