Hello Family and
Friends!
The Christmas season has
been here for me since 2 months ago haha. Although last week, I got the
surprise of my life. I was in the middle of closing out for the month, an
extremely long and tedious process that involves me usually recounting the
money 4 times so I don't have to say I'm missing 20,000 pesos (don't ask why I
say 20,000, basta I fixed it! :)
Elder Estuaria and I were invited to have a
Thanksgiving feast with the Senior Couple Missionaries! I gladly accepted
and to be honest, I think that was the best meal I have had since I went on my
mission. Also, you know how I never ate the fruit pies back in
America? Well now I love all of them, as I ate about 4 different ones
that night. Its amazing how unpicky I am now that I have been here for
over a year.
I love it
here in the Philippines honestly. Despite having little food, walking for
days, and dealing with interesting landlords, I could never have chosen a
better place to be. The people are so happy and humble, they do make the
best out of every situation. Every time Elder Estuaria and I run into a
troubling situation that has no possible way of coming out well, we just
laugh. We have found a way to not get too stressed out about anything
because there are times where you just can't do anything about it. It is
the way it is. As long as we give our best, there really is nothing else
we can do.
Here are some fun facts about my companion. One he is
addicted to the little hoop I have. I can't tell you how many times before
we go to bed or right when we wake up he is jamming on that thing. Most
of the time he will sit on the couch and shoot all the way across the
room. He is a food lover like me, but he has a little obsession with rice
restaurants. We like to joke with each other about this one restaurant
called Chicken Deli. Its a restaurant where you can get like a chicken
wing or breast and then unlimited rice. Now I was in love with that place
with him too, until they messed up one of my orders and i had a similar experience
like Jacob had with Taco Bell and the beefy 5. It made me gag from the
mistake, basically they didn't cook the food enough. And because of that
I can not eat their anymore honestly. Just the smell of being in there
makes me gag.
My companion is super grateful for the gifts that he has received but hasn't opened yet. When I went upstairs to go do some things, he single
handedly set up all of the Christmas tree and hung all the ornaments on the
tree so he could take a picture next to it!
So right now, I am working
with a couple of ladys in our branch. They seem to be pretty progressing
investigators and both of them have good friends in the church, which is
awesome for us Elders. Brother Jack has expressed his desire to be
baptized and married to the Sister he is living with right now which is super
great! Right now we are in the process of trying to help him with getting
married so he can be baptized.
Being in the office I get to be with the
APs and I have to say that Elder Saez is a great guy to be with. He is
super funny and we love to mess with each other occasionally. He always
tries to give me fuel receipts and ask for reimbursements and I like to give
him a hard time about it. He still loves me though :) Elder Pulley
is the other AP and he is relatively new to his position. He is a very
kind and caring Elder. He truly does love all of the missionaries here.
Elder Storrer and Elder Branzuela are our kabahays or they stay in the same
apartment with us.
Elder Storrers parents are the King and Queen of insta meals. I swear, I didn't even know half of those things were possible to
be ready like that. We enjoy swapping snacks with each other. Elder
Branzuela is hilarious. He just turned 23 and on his birthday we had 2
dinner appointments together. We all kind of were stuffed after the first
meal and seeing every bodies faces at the next appointment was hilarious...
Including mine :/ Me and my companion were probably the most full.
After about 2 bowls of soup into my second meal, I knew things weren't going to
go over well. Needless to say, I have never seen 8 Elders and Sisters been able
to hide that much food from a family in my life.
PS dont try that at
home. But before you worry, most of the food we just packed in our bags
and ended up eating the next day!
Well over all it has been a good and
crazy week. Being with all of these crazy and fun missionaries makes the
work even easier and funner!
I love you all and until next week this has
been yours truly,
Elder Warren
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