Fastest week of the mission by far this week! Sounds life
is staying pretty busy back home. Sam I'm excited for ya to head out to
Taiwan! Sounds like you have loved your time in Colorado though. I'm
jealous for sure but the work is pretty good here in the Philippines as
well!
On Tuesday we didn't
have district meeting like usual since we had zone conference on
Thursday. Just a normal day of work! Highlight was I saw 3 more white
guys go by on a motorcycle. I'm kinda turning into a Filipino in the
fact that if I see a white person it just about makes my entire day! We
were able to visit Brother Ray again and follow up with him from the
last week. He listened well again and asked a lot of questions again. It
was a good lesson and we were able to teach him again on Saturday.
Later that night we had dinner with the Ramos family in the branch.
Before dinner I was talking with Tatay and we were talking all about
cows for like 20 minutes. I told him about my experiences with cows (the
best I could in Tagalog) from the farm and it made me miss working on
the farm! Brought back a lot of fun memories. Dinner was good then they
gave us a ride back to the apartment!
Wednesday
was a quick day. We only got to work for a few hours then we had to go
over to another area called San Manuel to do a baptismal interview. San
Manuel is one of Elder Poulter's old areas that he told me about. The
people over there love him like crazy! He was their favorite so it gave
me something to talk to them about. Also I met this kid named John Mark
who is insane with the Bible! He showed me some of the notebooks and
papers he has written about the Bible and relating it to verses in the
Book of Mormon and the D&C. He is only 16 years old and he debates
with all his school teachers and the principal with the Bible. I can't
even describe it but it was crazy! We spent the night in San Manuel
since the next morning we had to go to Cauayan for zone conference.
Thursday
was zone conference! Zone conference is always a ton of fun and
uplifting! Plus there is always good food! Something cool was my zone
all matched for conference. All the elders got camo ties and the sisters
got matching outfits too. It looked pretty cool. I think the picture is
on the mission blog. Highlight of conference was that we got new goals
for 2015. They're quite a step up from the goals from 2014 so it will
take a lot of work to achieve them but that's not a bad thing. Dad, you
know that clip you always use from Facing the Giants? President Rahlf
used the same clip! Just made me think of you the whole time. Way back
from zone conference we got a flat tire in the van. Good thing was we
got it right next to a gas station with a nice store. Even better was
that store had Dr. Pepper! Tasted soooo good! Been way too long since
I've tasted that!
Friday I
have no idea what happened. I read back in my journal and all I wrote
for Friday was it went super fast and that I couldn't think of anything
to write and I still can't remember what we did on Friday. Guess I
should be a little better in my journal!
Saturday
was a good day. Like I said earlier we were able to teach Brother Ray
again.Had a good lesson about receiving answers and listening to the
holy ghost. We had asked him to pray about Joseph Smith but when we
followed up with him he said he had forgotten. I actually thought he was
really gonna come to church but that didn't happen. Had dinner with the
Ramos family again. Joined Tatay and talked to him again. This time he
happened to be watching some UFC so that was are topic of conversation
for the evening.
Sunday we
didn't get any investigators at church again. Pretty disappointing. The
less actives that came last week all came again this week but we didn't
get any new ones. Just got a sister back from her mission this last week
so she talked for a little bit. It was kinda funny though because she
could barely speak Tagalog. She invited us for FHE with her family later
tonight so we're looking forward to that! We located one less active
that we were told about a week ago from a member and we were able to
teach her. Had a really good lesson just about God's love and what he
wants for us then when she said the prayer she paused and just started
crying. She said she knew of God's love for her and she wants to change
and start living after his example again.
Overall
the week was really good. Zone conference made the week go super fast. I
can't believe it is already p-day again. Hope you all continue to do
well at home and I love you all!
Love Elder Haacke
Me with a caribou. Kinda hard to see my face though.
My apartment:
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