Well its good to be in Ilocos again, I feel like I am in another country
coming from Lasam. There is Mcdonalds and American Pizza and fast
internet and Ilocos empanadas and it is good to be back in
civilization! I went to the mission home to the trainer trainee
meeting, and all of the missionaries except one are coming from the
Provo MTC. They are all foreigners (Which means I am gonna be teaching
my trainee how to speak Tagalog)!!! I am the only non Filipino that is
training this batch, so they were all asking me if I was fluent in
Tagalog and stuff. Haha they were funny. I loved hearing the MTC Tagalog
and I was just imagining how weird it will be for them in their areas.
They were some pretty goofy Kanos. 2 of them are from St. George but
from different high schools, and one of them was this tall kid who played
doubles on Dixie's tennis team. He recognized me right when he saw me
haha. So anyways, we all met each other and introduced ourselves, and
then we got an envelope which said who are companions would be. So we
opened it and I got Elder Puefua!! He is born in Samoa and he moved to
Utah when he was 10! SO he is a Kano! His MTC companion said he is a
party and that I will love him! But the crappy part is that I haven't
met him yet and he is still in Manila right now haha. So my trainee
still isn't here.... His visa was late so he didn't get to fly here with
his batch. :( President told me that he should be getting here in Laoag
tomorrow night...
I have been here in Laoag working
with the zone leaders for the past week. I AM SO BORED. And for some
reason and cant sleep well and I am tired all the time, and I have
another pigsa on my bum and it makes me cranky. All the Filipinos keep
asking me if I am okay and that I look like I am sad, and every time
someone asks me it makes me wanna explode cuz I AM SAD CUZ I WANNA WORK
IN VINTAR AND I HAVE NO COMPANION AND I HAVE ANOTHER PIGSA AND I CANT
SLEEP. But i will get through it I guess.
I
had a chance to go to Vintar though. I went with my ZL who used to be
assigned there. We worked in the area with the branch President and the
area looks fantastic. It's like Laoag mixed with Lasam. It has city and
bukid (farm) and the people are nice and the branch is really young and
it is just a perfect set up for me. The branch president has just been
called and he is only 24 years old, and he is so humble and works with
the missionaries a lot and I am so excited! The branch was organized in
2010 and only has about 40 to 50 members coming to church, and just over
100 total members. It is in a meeting house again, but the meeting
house is right next to the apartment, and the apartment has AC!! LIKE
WHAT!? I am so excited for this area! Plus Laoag is only about 15
minutes away! There will only be 2 of us in the area, which I am
excited about. The only thing is that I have no idea what i am gonna
feed my companion. His batch said he eats an insane amount of food. But I
seriously can't wait to get to work.
I have
been reading PMG a lot and I am trying to spiritually prepare myself for
training in this new area. I want this to be the best part of my mission
so far, and I am trying to change some things and ensure that I am
clean and pure and ready to be guided by the Spirit at all times and to
be an instrument in God's hands. I see a big time opportunity to be able
to train and open an area at the same time in this fairly new branch,
and I am praying that we will see some miracles and that God's power
will be made manifest here in the coming weeks. I have got some big
plans for at least the next 12 weeks. I hope my trainee, Elder Puefua,
is ready to work his tail off. We will see what happens.
Sorry
I have no pics. These week has just been way boring and nothing has
happened at all. I am literally just waiting for my companion to get
here haha.
I love you all! Until next week!
-Elder Andersen
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