More Good Food!
I don't know if I told you this, but I am by far the oldest (mission length) missionary in the bahay. The others are:
Elder Fiesta (District Leader, 7 months in)
Elder Mitchell (Being trained by Elder Fiesta, 2 months in)
Elder Enano (My companion, 7 months in)
Elder Enano is a Filipino from Samar Province, Catarman specifically. He's having a really hard time with English right now. Not because he is terribly bad, but rather because he wants to learn it so much faster than he is learning it.
His native language is Waray, the version in his province, since it is different in different provinces...
He loves to laugh and has a million dollar smile. He can cook Filipino food, and knows a ton about plants and animals of the Philippines. We'll just be walking and he can tell me what kind of tree we're looking at and what fruit it bears and what other uses it has. He also has all sorts of tricks with plants. There is one that he can blow bubbles with, one he makes a weird whistle sound with, and one that is completely hydrophobic (that one was cool...and apparently, it's tasty).
Speaking of tasty, there are a few different foods here. I've eaten a relative of tuna, lots of different types of "sticky rice" the "heart of the banana" and bamboo. I thought they didn't have bitter-melon, and was somewhat disappointed, but I found out they do have it. I cooked myself up some. Mmmm....
We had a family history activity here. We rented out a computer shop, and had anyone who wanted to learn about familysearch.org. The whole computer shop was full, and several members came. Unfortunately, none of the members from our area did, but that doesn't mean the activity wasn't a success.
Taytay is a branch, i.e. we had 45 people at sacrament, and half of those were children. Feels like what I was used to before my mission. They do have a sizeable youth group, however.
There aren't a lot of people, but the Lord blessed us this week to successfully achieve 190 OYMs. I almost thought we weren't going to make it, because 30 a day is difficult enough, and we still needed 53 on Sunday. But amazingly, even as I began to fear, people began to pop up where there were none before, and we had the opportunity to OYM 190 people this week.
And to Papa, if you ever have difficulty pronouncing stuff here, ask Mama to pronounce it as though it were Spanish. They follow almost the same phonetic pattern.
I was able to download all of conference. I listen to it when I can.
Till next week,
Elder Streeter
Elder Fiesta (District Leader, 7 months in)
Elder Mitchell (Being trained by Elder Fiesta, 2 months in)
Elder Enano (My companion, 7 months in)
Elder Enano is a Filipino from Samar Province, Catarman specifically. He's having a really hard time with English right now. Not because he is terribly bad, but rather because he wants to learn it so much faster than he is learning it.
His native language is Waray, the version in his province, since it is different in different provinces...
He loves to laugh and has a million dollar smile. He can cook Filipino food, and knows a ton about plants and animals of the Philippines. We'll just be walking and he can tell me what kind of tree we're looking at and what fruit it bears and what other uses it has. He also has all sorts of tricks with plants. There is one that he can blow bubbles with, one he makes a weird whistle sound with, and one that is completely hydrophobic (that one was cool...and apparently, it's tasty).
Speaking of tasty, there are a few different foods here. I've eaten a relative of tuna, lots of different types of "sticky rice" the "heart of the banana" and bamboo. I thought they didn't have bitter-melon, and was somewhat disappointed, but I found out they do have it. I cooked myself up some. Mmmm....
We had a family history activity here. We rented out a computer shop, and had anyone who wanted to learn about familysearch.org. The whole computer shop was full, and several members came. Unfortunately, none of the members from our area did, but that doesn't mean the activity wasn't a success.
Taytay is a branch, i.e. we had 45 people at sacrament, and half of those were children. Feels like what I was used to before my mission. They do have a sizeable youth group, however.
There aren't a lot of people, but the Lord blessed us this week to successfully achieve 190 OYMs. I almost thought we weren't going to make it, because 30 a day is difficult enough, and we still needed 53 on Sunday. But amazingly, even as I began to fear, people began to pop up where there were none before, and we had the opportunity to OYM 190 people this week.
And to Papa, if you ever have difficulty pronouncing stuff here, ask Mama to pronounce it as though it were Spanish. They follow almost the same phonetic pattern.
I was able to download all of conference. I listen to it when I can.
Till next week,
Elder Streeter
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