WOW tonnes of missionaries going out Dad, thats super exciting and awesome!
Just a few questions:
-Can i have my family history chart please?
-Was there a typhoon in New Zealand?( I heard there was)
-How many temples are there in the world?
Chalamat ..
So so so..
Here in Kananga we have a brand new apartment, I mean brand new and its nindot kaayo!!!
I love being in a nice apartment and its good because its just me and Elder Minorias!! We have a shower, but it doesn't work yet, but it has HOT water, yay and we have a tap to wash our hands and clothes and a tap at the sink to wash our plates instead of always walking out to the well and filling up bucket with water outside and always calling my companion" companion I need help with the water" about 50 times a day haha.
But that's what makes a mission fun and memorable!! We have a brand new iron and ironing board, brand new curtains, Everythings brand new!! And I'm very happy haha I feel I'm in a brand new world until I walk outside and there's no houses.
The people here speak tagalog and waray waray, and I cannot understand any of it!!
Hopefully by the time I finish my mission I will know it, and can speak to Jeremy.
Anyway - Kananga!!
Well our ward is lovely, the members are really nice and the bishop is very nice and a Diligent Bishop!! Reminds me of you Dad. I had to speak on our first Sunday, and I was really frightened and started to eat my words. I guess i was entertaining when they were all laughing at me , but i know they got what I was saying through the spirit.
They love us missionaries so much and express their love to us, because they haven't had missionaries in a very long time!! We started our area - just opening it after the typhoon and had NO area book! Man wasnt this just so hard!! We had nothing, and it was really stressing me out, Then our president said we have to be back in the home by 5pm everyday, because there are no street lights and some rough people about. So this stressed me out even more, because I know that 5 till 8 are the peek hours where everyone's home and there's tonnes of teaching!! So it was hard coming from Bacolod to here - but through the simple commandment of prayer, I realised that I needed to just relax, stop stressing out, know that we are only beginning and to simply just enjoy the journey that will soon put us back on a roll again!
So in the last few days we have had a lot of work - we had 21 investigators at church!! Man tonnes, partly resulting from the typhoon. Most of the investigators are the fathers or mothers that are not converted and through the storm they have all been really humbled and are flooding in!! We then found our area book that wasn't even updated, ahah but it will be now!!
This story reminds me of Alma, when he baptizes tonnes of people at the waters of Mormon - people are truly flooding to be baptized which is super exciting!! We have no font so our baptisms are in the creek!! Makes Alma's story come to real life even more haha!
Me and my companion are different!! Very very different. When we became companions we knew we had different personalities, different interests and styles of teaching. Hes from Mandanao and is 24!! My last companion Elder Doverte was 26!! So Heavenly Father loves putting me with older people!! I love my companion.
We have been doing much service , building the foundations of homes - diggin diggin and diggin!! Work Work Work , I Love to Work! Love You Family - Be Safe
Love you
Der Anderson
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