Well it's been two weeks since I last sent an email home
so I'll try and sum up the last couple weeks. First I gotta wish mom a
Happy Birthday for this Thursday! Hope it's a wonderful day for you
mom!!
Last week was an
alright week. Nothing special happened I guess but it was still an
alright week. Friday last week we split with the zone leaders. One of my
most favorite things to do since I've been here in Roxas. I'm not a fan
of the area I have so when I get the chance to go on splits and work
with one of them in their area. The part of their area we went to was
really far and straight rice fields. Most of their area is more city
like and neighborhoods but they have one part that is straight rice
fields and that's where we went. We spent half the day out there then
came back to Roxas for the evening. We got 6 lessons together which I
really liked since we never get days like that back in my area. But we
get the transfer list a week from today so maybe I will transfer! At
church last Sunday we had the most members there on time that I have
seen since I have been in the area so that was great! Still no
investigators at church so I guess nothing new there. Last Tuesday we
had zone meeting so I got a week off from teaching a district meeting.
In zone meeting we just went over a lot of things that missionaries
should be taking a little more seriously like the way we look and stuff.
Also we went over qualifications for baptism which was pretty good
also. Last p-day we went to Santiago so I could say bye to Elder Poulter
since he is leaving in like a week. We said we'll see each other again
in about 15 months! That's pretty much it from the week last week.
This
last week was another alright week. Had a couple problems with one
elder in my district. He's kinda turning on the entire zone and says
everybody hates him but nobody has a problem with him so I don't know
where he is getting that from. He's not exactly all there though so we
just had to be patient with him. He's doing better now but still has a
problem with a couple others in the zone. Maybe transfers next week will
solve the problem for good. He didn't want to come to Roxas last
Tuesday for district meeting so my district meeting was very small. As
in me, my companion, the sisters and one zone leader. My district is
already small and without them there it got even smaller! But it was
good though. We had a nice discussion as a district on things we
struggle with then help each other figure out new ways we could do it.
We talked about stuff like language study and teaching skills that we
all do differently. I liked it since it was more of a discussion than
normally. So do you remember our investigator Dominga Cantor from a
while ago that I was pretty excited about? Well we haven't been able to
contact her forever and this week we finally saw her. We sat down and
talked for a little then asked if we could share a message. She told us
no because she already knows everything. Pretty good excuse huh?? We'll
still follow up with her when we see her but as of now she doesn't want
to continue with the lessons.
A
few evenings this week it down-poured like no other! It was a perfectly
fine day then out of nowhere a storm comes in and rains super hard.
Well since both Pawin and I don't carry umbrellas, we got soaked a
couple times this week. We were running for cover and when you're in an
area of flat rice fields, sometimes cover is further than you would
like. Sadly, we are still not able to progress with anybody. I don't
know what the problem is. What made it worse was church on Sunday. You
know how the week before was the most I had seen? This week was the
least I've ever seen. After church, the Elder's Quorum President came up
to me and talked to me about it. I told him we will visit some that
weren't there that we noticed but he wanted an answer why there was
nobody at church. Felt like I should of just asked how his quorum is
doing on home teaching but I didn't feel like making the conversation
longer than it needed to be cause I didn't know what to tell him. I
guess over all I'm hoping I am going to transfer. Not to sound like I'm
giving up on the area but I don't really know what else to do. We're
still praying that something will turn for the better. Hope you all have
a great week this week!
Love Elder Haacke
Picture of me and Elder Cruzit at zone meeting.
Picture of my zone (above and below).