Camalaniugan
I'm back in the boonies! Its good to be back in Cagayan. This place is
kinda crazy. On my first day in Camalaniugan it rained and was
cloudy, which was super crazy because I don't think it has rained once in
the past three months while I was in Laoag. Elder Cabanus and I were
walking down this super long dirt trail that leads to the people that
live in the mountains, and it was right after it rained and it was
still cloudy, but there was this crazy hot wind that felt like it was
coming form the ground releasing all the heat because it hasn't rained
in so long. Haha Im no scientist but it could be legit haha.
Camalaniugan
is cool. There are just tons of Coconut tress every where, oh and rice
fields as far as the eye can see. The "niug" in the word is the Ilokano
word for buko, or coconut so maybe there is a reason why its called
Camalaniugan. The people here are a lot darker and rougher looking than
the people in Ilocos. Its probably because most of the men are bukid
farmers and work in the rice fields under the blazing hot sun all day
everyday.
The apartment here reminds me a lot
of my first apartment in Lasam. If any of you remember, that was January
of 2016, when I was living in this old depressing, dilapidated wooden
shack that was flooding from irrigation. Don't worry this apartment isn't that bad, it just kinda looks like the other one and reminds
me of it. Its super hot sometimes in the apartment cause the
Philippines, and it's also right next to the highway so its super noisy
and hard to sleep. And our neighbors are these crazy people that just
laugh and yell and scream and swear at each other really loud all the
time. Sometimes when we are trying to sleep, but its all good.
I guess I'm just kinda picky right now because I just transferred from
the mansion in Laoag which is the nicest apartment in the mission, so I
guess I had it coming. Our water pump broke a few days ago and we
could shower for almost 2 days, but the district President came and
fixed the pump and saved the day Halleluiah!
I love my new companion! Elder Cabanus is the bomb.com
He goes home in June so were are both in that last stretch! We have
been working our tales off and the branch already likes us a ton so that's a good sign!
We started working about 5
days ago here in the new area and we have been hitting the dirt
streets! Just this week we found 42 new investigators and we found so
many part member families and scattered Israel just in 5 days that I can't believed the past missionaries missed them. We were really surprised this Sunday
when 9 of our investigators came to church! They all came in a cable
car about 5 minutes late and they all walked in at the same time and the
members were kinda freaking out cause they haven't seen that many
investigators at church at once in a long time! We are so excited to
keep thrusting in our sickle and there is so much work to be done!
Every
night this week ELder Cabanus and I have just come home and crashed
because we are so tired from walking and talking and teaching, but its
great because the sleep of the laboring man is sweet!
We are baptizing the Reconoce couple this Saturday after they get married on Friday! Ill fill you in on them next week!
I
love you all and remember to put your shoulder to the wheel! We reap
what we sow, and there is no substitute for good hard work!
-Elder Andersen
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