We have been having some major water problems in
our house. We don't have water for several hours a few times a week and our
apartment situation is much better than most people here. Some people haven't
had water for like 2 months. I guess that happens every year in Baguio and
people just kind of deal with it. Luckily, usually, when the water goes off and
we really really need water, the caretaker person gives us a couple buckets. Our
apartment doesn't have a water filter so we buy filtered water to drink. We
always have enough filtered water on hand to drink. I hardly ever drink soda
any more…Only if people give it to me. I mostly drink water sometimes juice. And
I only drink filtered water.
I have a story. A couple
nights ago, we heard some people yelling outside in Tagalog. They were saying,
"No! Hurry and call the lawyer." "No, the lawyer won't be able
to help!" all this stuff. Then we kept listening and discovered that
under-cover cops were at our neighbor’s house. They were driving a big black SUV
and they were wearing normal clothes. They yelled at each other for a while. (We
turned off all the lights in our house and sat under the window eavesdropping).
We discovered that one of them had apparently stolen a car. He claims he paid
for it. But it was a super nice car and only 400,000 pesos. Then after an hour
or so, actual police officers came, hand-cuffed him, and took him away in the
police car. That's all I know about the situation. Sketchy! Our neighbor got
arrested for stealing a car!
Our investigators are good. Sister Tune and I had
another great week. We increased our number of lessons from 12-16 a week to
almost 30. We have a lot more progressing investigators too. Brother D is good.
Sister M is still smoking a lot…progressing slowly. She says hopefully she will
be ready in August (We almost died. That is so long!).
Yesterday, I was riding on a jeepney. This lady
next to me was all in my space and pushing her elbow into my stomach and
basically sitting on top of me. I wasn't sitting on the seat the whole way because
it was so squished and my skirt was pretty slippery and I was kind of falling
asleep. Anyway, the jeep went around the corner and I fell right off the seat!
Haha, it was so embarrassing!
I'm starting to get to know the members better in
this ward. I really love Pacdal ward, despite the huge amounts of gossip and
stuff. One of my favorite members fed us delicious food last week. She’s
hilarious. I also feel bad for her because her husband is abroad in Canada and
she is just raising her two kids without him. She said they always pray
together over skype and on Christmas, they skype him and both eat dinner at the
same time. Isn’t that the saddest thing you've ever heard? He actually might
get sent home due to some weird thing where they are only allowing a certain
amount of people from the Philippines or something. If that happens, they're
super worried about money.
One of our less active members just broke down
crying to us telling us all these really serious problems with her family and
all this stuff. We tried our best to comfort her and told her she needed to
meet with the bishop. It was really sad. I can't imagine having to deal with
stuff like that all the time.
I have to go. Love you!
Saying good-bye to a dear friend in San Fernando.
Three missionaries from the same MTC district.
Baguio
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