Tuesday morning we got up and went to a csp in the Sisters' area.
We cleaned up some weeds in a members backyard so that she can get it
ready to plant a garden. We made shirts again for the six of us there in
Echague so we all wore them on Tuesday to get a picture together before
we split up the next day. The rest of Tuesday we went around and I said
goodbye to a lot of the members. There's a few there that I will
definitely miss. Then, for the second to last time in the mission, I
packed my bags and got ready to leave.
Got up early Wednesday morning and finished getting everything all
ready to leave. Bishop's nephew picked us up and took us to the highway
where we waited for a bus to come by. Finally got on a bus and went off
to Cauayan. Just like always it was really fun seeing a lot of the other
missionaries there. Also got to go eat at KFC before we went out to
Burgos. We took a member's tricy all the way back out to Burgos. We took
the back way so it was a lot of gravel roads. Then with our luck we got
a flat tire! Not only that but like 4 spokes broke off and like 5 more
were really loose. So we just waited for ages for someone to come by.
Finally someone came by that was willing to help. He had tools to get
the tire off then they left and went somewhere to get the tire fixed. We
found a house that had some hammocks under a tree so we just laid in
them till they got back. Actually pretty relaxing. They eventually made
it back to us, put the tire back on and we got back to Burgos around 2
in the afternoon. We dropped off my bags, took a few things out and went
out to work. Little did I know I already went to 2/3 of my entire area
my first day here!
As of now we have one investigator with a baptismal date. He's 11
years old and his family isn't active. He's been coming to church though
so hopefully that will have an effect on his family in the long run.
We have a couple of other investigators that we're teaching but
none of them seem that close. We do teach a lot of members which isn't
really a bad thing since the branch needs strengthening here. We just
had district conference this weekend and I guess the leaders got
chastised a little by the visiting area Seventy. But that's not a bad
thing since from what I've heard so far the leaders are not doing the
right things.
I've met a lot of the members so far and they are really cool.
Super nice people out here. We have a ton of food appointments. I guess
they aren't really appointments but when we see them we just ask if we
can have dinner with them the next day or something like that and it
will happen. One family in particular is the Ancheta family. Nanay
washes our clothes for us and every time we go there they feed us. We
have dinner with them quite a bit. Brother Ancheta is the old branch
president and now he is in the district presidency. We dropped by this
morning to drop off our clothes and they sat us down and fed us
breakfast as well. They are super nice to the missionaries. But it's not
just the Ancheta family. For the most part all the families I've met so
far are super nice to the missionaries.
Nanay DelaCruz is a member that we teach every once in a while.
She's reading in the D&C and always has a lot of questions so that
is always what we share with her. She's 83 but really funny though. We
taught her on April fools day and we taught her as well what that means
back in America. I guess they don't have that day here or not a lot of
people know about it. Anyway, once she learned what it was she took it
to a whole new level! Everything she said was a joke. We couldn't get
her to say anything serious but it made us laugh and she was enjoying
it. We just made sure she knew that it only lasted for one day so by the
next time we're there she doesn't go off joking like crazy again.
A little more about the area here in Burgos. There's not much to
tell you about other than a lot of rice fields. Kinda like when I was in
San Pedro. Speaking of San Pedro. One of the older single adults from
San Pedro has moved out to Mabini (a branch in Burgos District) and I
saw him on Sunday at district conference! And he is getting married to a
sister that came with a friend every once in a while back in San Pedro.
Really cool to see them again. They said they hadn't been out to San
Pedro in a while but from what they knew everyone was still doing good
out there. But we don't have a lot out here in Burgos. On pday we go to
either Roxas or Ilagan to net and buy food since there is no place to do
that in Burgos. Trying to think of what else to say about Burgos but I
can't think of anything. But even though it is really small and not much
out here I've really enjoyed my time here so far and am looking forward
to being assigned here.
That's pretty much the week for me. Hope you all have a great week this week. Love you all!
Love Elder Haacke
Pic of me and my new companion, Elder Castillo.
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