….. My strategies for coping with the heat are; wipe away
the sweat with a hanky. And just over the past few days, because even with a
fan blowing on me all night it's too hot to sleep, I use one of my ice-cream
containers, fill it with ice, then put it in front of the fan. Ta-da instant
air-con. and I put my hands in it too.
There's quite a few members in my ward, apparently there is
150 or so regularly, but it doesn't feel like that much. There is only 15(?)
active Melchezideck priesthood. There needs to be at least 16 for it to become
a ward, and then it will become a stake.
My training is going well, I still don't really know…. what
the investigators are saying. The day goes a little like this 6:30 study Lehi's
dream until interrupted. Have a shower and eat breakfast, hopefully before 8. Study
1 hour. Study language 1 hour. Go out tract, teach until 12. Come back, cook
and eat lunch, normally with the elders that live next door. Companion study
for 2 hours. Go out work, come back eat, if time permits go out again
(sometimes we have dinner past 8 pm, because it works better, and sometimes
it's impossible to get back any earlier). Plan. Sleep. Repeat.
Anyway this week was pretty hectic, It got really, really
hot, as it's about to become summer, or it's summer now.., Anyway...
The
branch mission leader told me that you can't leave Ligao without gaining at
least 5 kilos. I’ve been gaining a fair bit, probably because I eat well, and
may sipon ko, so I don't exercise in the morning, siguro kailan walang sipon
ko, puwede.
This week we blessed one of the less active members, because
he was sick. He's kind of a funny guy, he can't walk, so he gets around using 2
chairs, sitting on one, then moving the other, sitting on that one, and so on.
anyway we blessed him on Saturday. Came back on Monday and there was a coffin
in the middle of the house. I think you can guess what happened.
Still little progress with the rest of our investigators,
except one who is getting baptized on Thursday. YAY!!
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| The view from the other missionaries place. Mount Mayon. |
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I bought a tub of ice-cream,.....Brown is chocolate....it tasted how you would expect. Purple flavour is ube, or ubi, which
is purple yam, it's kind of a unique flavour, but it's not bad. And yellow as
you would expect all things yellow to be, was cheese, or Keso. It tasted like ice-cream,
without the vanilla flavour, and with lumps of mozzarella cheese in it. It
tasted good to me, so long as the lumps of cheese were small
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| Sinigong na baboy, a sour soup thing |
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