So over my course here in the Philippines i have had some very disgusting food...mostly delicious but there have been times where i have wanted to just give up the ghost, therefore allowing me to avoid any pain of eating whatever was given. You are all also aware that to even avoid eating i have discretely shoved food into my pockets in order to get rid of the evidence that i could not finish what was given to me. Yes again in all the letters of missionaries you have read i am the Elder who even slid a slice of the cardboard pizza they serve on the streets here into his pocket. This week had in store for me a double whammy. On New Year's Day we went over to this families house to eat some desserts and i dont know how someone could ruin desserts but that is exactly what happened...actually now that i think about it they just happened to have made some of the worst filipino desserts hahahah. i am laughing as i am saying this because i dont want to be so negative but they were horrible. We all wanted to give up the ghost. After having eaten dessert and just being served a plate of the infamous macaroni salad that i could not choke down at this point I knew i would be finished if i endured any more. Thankfully i had a ziplock bag in my bag and as soon as i pulled it out without saying any words, everyone knew what i was going to do. So Elder Auseuga got up and started talking to the family to distract them. Elder Morris moved across the room to me and i hid him as he carefully slid the macaroni into the bag. Success was mine, but I was still severely wounded. my stomach was left with battle scars. We got out though and i proudly showed the evidence of a battle one and then my companion pulled out of his bag the food that he had secretly thrown in. the rice cake and sticky rice we were all dead both in laughing and in not feeling good. Mercy did not come because there is a second time. Elder Lougee and i were sitting in a lesson and we were served pineapple which was one, a first and two, a dream come true. Against what we expected, as soon as the pineapple touched my tongue my body shriveled up and i probably turned green! The pineapple was covered in salt! It was horrible! hahaha! I did not think pineapple could be ruined but it tasted like it was soaked in the ocean and thrown on a plate. That is one thing i dont miss about the beach, swallowing the ocean water hahaha.
I never will forget those memories i am so fond of hahaaha.
This week we I had some great experiences though that did not involve me being pained.
I worked with and Elder who is doing rough, we went on exchanges the other day and he was struggling the a lot. He doesnt have the best tagalog and was not confident in his ability to teach. the whole day he was pretty stressed. So I sat down with him and listened and talked gave some simple advice and told him to not worry about teaching and think of it more as testifying and sharing what you love because who is opposed to sharing what you love?! He really liked the idea and i also gave him somethings to read that would help him. One was a poem and the other was a letter that my uncle sent to my brother when he was struggling and it goes over different things we struggle in the mission and solutions. I really like ministering unto him, he is a good guy and I know God has such strong love for him and desires for him to be happy.
We also had great opportunities in teaching.
We taught this really old and sweet lady named Juana but the lesson we had was not really effective because she was so old that she could not reall understand. She is the mom of one of our members and she speaks Ilocano but still knows some tagalog however as we were teaching her, her mom wasnt there to help so she would zone out during the lesson. we will try again this next week to teach her again haha.
Do you all remember Melvin? he went to church last week right after we had just met and taught him. We taught him again and brought a member with us named RJ, it was awesome! Melvin seems that he is really interested and wanting to change his life! I love seeing how important religion is in his family, he always gets excited to have his 6 year old daughter say the opening prayer and it is really cute!
We met Melvin at brother Chavez's house and that is the next person i want to talk about. He has not yet gone to church but he has a lot of questions about Joseph Smith and prophets. I really felt the spirit guide me as i focused on what Heavenly Father would have me say to him. the lesson was really good and i could tell the Restoration made more sense but he really needs to go to church and pray for the truth if he will really understand.
I have written about Carlito in a while but he is the firend of Sister Arellano and is suffering from really bad arthritis and we visited him again and he was so happy to see us and he believes in everything we share to him and has so much faith. he is so great but cannot walk yet. but he told us that he believes that he is getting stronger since he has been listening to our messages and surprisingly he has been. he is started to get more muscle on his bones and seems to be able to move around more. I loved seeing him and seeing how happy he was. he is such a great person!
Sharing the gospel is the best! it is such a joy! i love you all and hope you all are doing good!
Elder Wright
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