This
week existed.
Not
all that much was done, because Elder Rasmussen's infection came back; this
time it wasn't on his forehead, it was on his lip. It swelled up a lot. Hopefully
I will get some good pictures attached to this email. With that said, we were
stuck in the house a lot this week. As a missionary, when you can’t go out and
work, you feel kind of useless; there is not a whole lot that you can do.
With
that said, I got to go on exchanges a couple times with Elder Stephens. It is
weird teaching with my MTC comp again. He says a lot more in the lessons
nowadays. With 4 foreigners in the house, we spend a decent amount of time
talking about things that help us with the language – although Elder Kirifi is
basically a Filipino at this point, he is pretty fluent.
We
had Zone interviews at the beginning of last week. When we get mail and
proselyting supplies, it comes from the mission office. This is a 2-hour trip
each way to go down the mountain to the mission office. Then we have lug all of
it back up to our house. It can be a bit of a struggle. The transportation around
here helps. Coming back from Zone interviews we all decided to take a taxi. It
was only 150 pesos (or $3) each for about an hour in a taxi, all in all it was
around 12 dollars for all of us to ride.
We
got back out to work this week for real on Saturday. That means from Monday to
Friday there was almost no work done! It hurts to not speak the language often.
We are reviewing our teaching and finding styles. Hopefully we will focus more
on finding this week and have a bigger teaching pool because of it. Then we can
fill in all the lessons spots on our calendar.
Finding
can be a weird thing here, sometimes we are just there to teach a small lesson.
Even if the person listens, we might only stop by their house a few times. We
aren’t looking for people that are ready to listen; we are looking for people
that are ready to change their lives, or be helped to change their lives.
We
are going to get a new Mission President in a few weeks. This will be the last
full transfer with our current mission president. The next will come in not
knowing about the missionaries or the areas. He will only have the current
missionaries and God to help him figure out his job. It will probably be hard
on him. Right now we only speculate as to what he will be like. There are a lot
of people that think things will get more strict, I figure they will mostly
stay the same.
Culture:
Naliligo sa kalsada: It rains a decent amount over here. Whenever it rains hard
– all the children run out into the street and start showering. Most of them
are fully clothed, or clothed enough. The streets aren’t full of naked kids. This
happens every time. Sometimes the rain is pretty intense, but this usually just
increases the number of kids outside.
Tagalesson:
we will learn some of the different words for rain and some other things.
Ulan:
Rain
Umuulan
na: It is raining now
Ambon:
drizzle
Umaambon
na: It is drizzling now.
Ligo:
shower
Naliligo
sa kalsada: showering in the street.
We
will learn about "um" and "na" verbs next week.
Welp,
we will continue on with the work. It is good getting back to it all.
Keep
on keeping on.
Love
Elder
Faulkner
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