Pictures this time

This week was not nearly as busy as last week. We had a lot to do, but most of that doing was in the field missionary work – which is normally much better than meetings. We have a lot going on in our area. We have dropped most of the people that the previous missionaries were teaching. We are finding a lot and we have found a few really awesome people.

One of the people that we are teaching right now is Ramon. He is a chain smoker, but he has been slowly decreasing the amount that he smokes every day. We made a plan for him so that he would be able to be baptized and work more towards his goal of quitting smoking. One thing that is important with people is that you have to put the standard somewhere that is achievable. With Ramon, we are working little-by-little and he is quite receptive to it.

Other than that, we have a huge compound that we teach in. It is a relocation center called “Disciplina”. We have a lot of people there that we have taught. We also have a lot of less actives that get relocated there. It is a very interesting place to work, as it is very, very loud. Working there can be a test on patience. There are always screaming kids and loud music. But we have some progressing investigators there, so we have to do what we have to do.

       

Elder Ewing and I are working pretty well together. We get along just fine. We are working together to see what we can do to be effective and useful.

      

Elder Ewing and I have been giving really small commitments to try and build people's faith very slowly. We have seen a little bit of progress with that.

       

We had a great time on New years eve. It was very, very loud – much louder than any celebration I have heard in America. We tried to go to sleep early, but we both woke up a lot throughout the night.

Culture: People have two celebrations here close together. Christmas and New years, as is customary in a lot of cultures. They mostly do the same thing on both nights (drink, sit around, and play music.). Everything is louder on New Years, and there are a lot more fireworks. Fireworks right now are against the law without a permit. I don’t think that stopped a whole lot of people.

Tagalesson:

Mga Hayop:

Aso- Dog

Pusa- Cat

Kambing- Goat

Lamok- Mosquito

isda- Fish

Well there you go now you know some animals. Keep on keeping on everyone. I will see you all in a while

Love

Elder Faulkner