This week was not exactly a big week when it came to finding new people but we really tried to do our best to retain those people that we are teaching and we had some really great things happen this week. One of the things that I love being with Elder Lowery is because for some weird reason he just LOVES magic and always has the funniest reactions. Elder Guiral one of our housemates soon found this out and eversince has been making money disappear and then reapear and then he will turn a 100 pesos into 1000 pesos and everytime without a doubt Elder Lowery will freak out, wide eyed and mouth dropped like in the scene of Cloudy with a chance of meatballs when everyone starts seeing food fall from the sky and is gasping. then he will say in his country accent "how didya do that?!" "HOW DIDYA DO THAT?!" hahaha. Another funny experience...He is really mature but he just has a really playful side to him if that is the right word so sometimes he will like to pretend to talk in Chinese as some people walk by and i will go along with it sometimes to make him happy hahaha he is funny.
Bowling was really fun last PDAY, i was pretty impressed with how good i did in the first round. We all were getting ready and i go up because i am the first one and it always is scary when you are the first one because if you get a gutter or do really bad then its just humiliating but i sucked up my pride and went up not acting too confident and boom i got a strike! i felt pretty cool but man did bowling hurt my fingers hahaha i never thought fingers could get so sore!
So this week we taught Gyyyyrace and she is ready to get baptized next week so I am so excited because i remember when i first met her and it was awesome because we just talked to her and invited her to listen and she gave us her address it was awesome! But her side of the story is a lot funnier of how we first met becuase the other day she told us how she felt and what was going on in her head when we first talked. She said that she was coming back from buying bread and couldve gone two ways, the long way or the shortcut that looked like would be really hot to go down. as any normal Filipino even if it is the shorter way they would avoid being hot, so she went the long way, the road that we were on. When we saw her and started to talk with her she thought..."oh no i shouldve gone the other way". but she was really nice so she kept talking with us. We walked for a bit and she avoided going to her house to not show us where she lived but i asked her for her address and she still gave it to me because she is really nice. One week later she heard that two americans were finding her and she wanted to hide but it was too late because we were already at the door but she still let us in because she was nice but after that first visit she felt that what we taught was good and true and now she will be baptized. I loved hearing that story! such a great experience of how the Lord does prepare people to hear his message and sometimes they dont even know when they are being prepared! So we have to share the message for them to know what they are searching for.
Our lessons with Jyyyyenelyn and Jyyyyeraldyn and their kids are going great because they are going to church and are really wanting continue and to be happy and have God more in their life. I love that even though they dont understand everything they have strong enough faith and trust in God to act.
Jyyyying Jyyyying, jyyyyean's mom, is doing really good and told us the other day that going to church is addicting hahaha i love how she has changed already so much as she has been really trying to come unto Christ. she was already a good person and now she is becoming an even better person!
We are having a lot of success and i am so happy to be a missionary here. I just love working hard, spreading the love of God to everyone and sharing the great news that families can be together forever and we know how! I LOVE THIS! I love my God and i love all of you! I hope you all have a great week!
Elder Wright
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