Date
March 14, 2016
Area
Las Pinas City
Companion
Elders Eteaki and Calixto
A Typical P-Day (preparation day)
(Answering questions)
Have you written actual letters to Lala? Grandma? Or Grandpa Streeter? Even my dad?
Oops...not yet. I will, promise...
Have you received the packages?
No, not yet either. Hopefully they weren't stolen. I don't think so, because someone else's mail is also taking a long time, but still. You did put Catholic stuff all over the outside, right?
Do you still have the same companion?
Yes. Elder Eteaki remained with me from last transfer. But I also obtained a new companion, so we are a threesome. 3 missionaries, one companionship.
When will there be transfers and do you know where you might be sent?
You never know where you'll be sent, honest to goodness. However, though anything could happen, probability points to the idea that I will be going somewhere else next transfer. That won't be for several more weeks however. It will happen on a Wednesday, and I won't know till the Tuesday before. So you won't find out until it has happened.
How do you like sharing the apartment with all the other missionaries?
It's all right. Mostly they are not my personality type, so it's tough. I wade through sarcasm, and being the naive and literal mind that I am, I often fall prey to it. But they are teaching me, slowly.
Does it remind you a little of BYU?
Eh...sort of, but not really.
What do you mostly eat?
Rice, to be honest. That's the staple here. What I eat with it changes from day to day, but mostly, it's rice.
Now of course, if you send me some recipes, that could change...
Do you cook at all?
Yes. I've learned some Filipino recipes (adobo) and I also cook some old goodies (croquetas, pancakes) but everything is done from memory, using what I have available, so it's relatively limited.
What has been a spiritual moment?
Um, I'll say just every time I actually know what to say in a lesson, or an OYM, is probably the most spiritual. It's kind of funny. When you start speaking, you have no idea what you are supposed to say. Then you sort of feel funny, and your mind clears, and you say something you never would have thought of yourself, something you've never said or practiced saying before.
What has surprised you?
Um...
Nothing but the happy surprise that toilet paper is available, and the sad surprise that disobedient missionaries do exist...
That's all I really have time for.
Oh yeah, p-day activities:
Wake up
Exercise
Study
Shop for groceries and other goods
E-mail, to you and president
Report numbers for last week and goals for this one
Check referral manager
Read all the emails from the office
Read yours
Read president's
Eat a tasty, but within budget, lunch (hehehe)
Clean the bahay (house)
Hand wash garments, and maybe other clothes (ugh...)
And rest and relax (if there is time.)
Then at 6 (on a normal p-day, today was weird) go out and work like any other day.
Get home
Plan for tomorrow
Get ready for bed
Sleep.
So yeah, there we go.
Also, I recently learned how to solve a Rubic’s cube from my kabahay, or roommate. I was super psyched. And then I solved it for the 50th time, and now I'm bored of it...
I even solved it so it wasn't the natural pattern, with weird sides and everything, but really, there's only so much you can do.
With love,
Elder Streeter
Have you written actual letters to Lala? Grandma? Or Grandpa Streeter? Even my dad?
Oops...not yet. I will, promise...
Have you received the packages?
No, not yet either. Hopefully they weren't stolen. I don't think so, because someone else's mail is also taking a long time, but still. You did put Catholic stuff all over the outside, right?
Do you still have the same companion?
Yes. Elder Eteaki remained with me from last transfer. But I also obtained a new companion, so we are a threesome. 3 missionaries, one companionship.
When will there be transfers and do you know where you might be sent?
You never know where you'll be sent, honest to goodness. However, though anything could happen, probability points to the idea that I will be going somewhere else next transfer. That won't be for several more weeks however. It will happen on a Wednesday, and I won't know till the Tuesday before. So you won't find out until it has happened.
How do you like sharing the apartment with all the other missionaries?
It's all right. Mostly they are not my personality type, so it's tough. I wade through sarcasm, and being the naive and literal mind that I am, I often fall prey to it. But they are teaching me, slowly.
Does it remind you a little of BYU?
Eh...sort of, but not really.
What do you mostly eat?
Rice, to be honest. That's the staple here. What I eat with it changes from day to day, but mostly, it's rice.
Now of course, if you send me some recipes, that could change...
Do you cook at all?
Yes. I've learned some Filipino recipes (adobo) and I also cook some old goodies (croquetas, pancakes) but everything is done from memory, using what I have available, so it's relatively limited.
What has been a spiritual moment?
Um, I'll say just every time I actually know what to say in a lesson, or an OYM, is probably the most spiritual. It's kind of funny. When you start speaking, you have no idea what you are supposed to say. Then you sort of feel funny, and your mind clears, and you say something you never would have thought of yourself, something you've never said or practiced saying before.
What has surprised you?
Um...
Nothing but the happy surprise that toilet paper is available, and the sad surprise that disobedient missionaries do exist...
That's all I really have time for.
Oh yeah, p-day activities:
Wake up
Exercise
Study
Shop for groceries and other goods
E-mail, to you and president
Report numbers for last week and goals for this one
Check referral manager
Read all the emails from the office
Read yours
Read president's
Eat a tasty, but within budget, lunch (hehehe)
Clean the bahay (house)
Hand wash garments, and maybe other clothes (ugh...)
And rest and relax (if there is time.)
Then at 6 (on a normal p-day, today was weird) go out and work like any other day.
Get home
Plan for tomorrow
Get ready for bed
Sleep.
So yeah, there we go.
Also, I recently learned how to solve a Rubic’s cube from my kabahay, or roommate. I was super psyched. And then I solved it for the 50th time, and now I'm bored of it...
I even solved it so it wasn't the natural pattern, with weird sides and everything, but really, there's only so much you can do.
With love,
Elder Streeter
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