Birds Phlying in my room

We watched conference this week. Probably my favorite talk in the whole conference was the one by that guy from Ukraine [Elder Jörg Klebingat]. I also really loved Elder Bednar's talk. I wish we had more investigators there to hear it. I was going to ask you what’s going on in the world because it seemed like conference had a huge amount of talks about following the prophet. Also, Elder Andersen's talk was interesting. Sister J and I have been trying to figure out what is going on in the world based on the subjects of conference talks.

This week was good. We had a great week. We now have 7 ibds [investigator’s with baptism dates]. We found this giant family that might be kind of golden. There are so many people living there and they really want to be baptized. Hopefully things work out there. We’ve just taught them twice, but we have only been able to teach a couple of the family members because everyone is always at work and stuff. But their dad wants the whole family to be baptized. I’m not really sure…because he hasn't really read the Book of Mormon yet so I don't know how he has a testimony or why he wants to get baptized. We’ll see how things go there. They said they were going to come to church, but they didn't.

Anyway, the work is going pretty good here. Last week we reached the standard of excellence in every category and we have the 7 investigators with baptism dates. (Sorry, I know that these statistics aren't interesting if you're not a missionary). Our next baptism is set for November 8. There are still a lot of obstacles with some of these investigators ... including getting them married and living the Word of Wisdom.

Here are a couple of weird stories. A couple of days ago, I had just stepped out of the shower and I was walking into the room to change. I was only wearing my towel. When I walked in the door, I found 3 birds flying around the room! I screamed at the top of my lungs, slammed the door shut (almost losing my towel in the process). Then 3 other missionaries all came running. My companion got the birds out of the room (I have no idea how, I was too busy hiding in a different room). So good thing my companion is awesome.

Here’s another weird story for the week. So here's some background to the story. Besides our apartment, there are 4 other sisters in Agoo. They were on exchanges so the whole apartment was Americans. Anyway, at about 11:15 at night one night last week, I’m sleeping and then I hear all these people yelling my name out the window. I go outside in my nightgown and I see the 4 sisters and their district leader and his companion. I’m hoping the elders didn't notice I was in my nightgown. So, I let all the sisters in and they tell me this story of how they are locked out and they tried everything they could to get in. They and their district leader and everyone had used everything from bobby pins to spatulas to knives to credit cards to get into their apartment. No luck. In the process of them trying to break in, somehow the neighbors got really freaked out. haha, It's this sweet little Filipino family and then this herd of 4 Americans sisters and 2 Samoan elders trying to break into the sisters’ apartment. Then the apartment neighbors called their friends to come rescue them. So all these people apparently showed up on a trike…with two men standing on the back holding swords and other weapons. hahah. So then the missionaries do their best to explain the situation and then the barangay police got involved. haha, it was just a mess apparently. So finally they come over to our apartment so they can sleep. So I gave them some food because they hadn't eaten in a few hours. I gave them all some clothes to sleep in. Then we shoved my bed next to my companion’s bed and I slept with my companion and two sisters slept in my bed and one sister slept on the couch and another sister slept on the floor in a bed made out of my clothes. The funniest thing about all of this is that my companion just slept through all of it. She just rolled over and put her pillow over her head. She said she woke up for a second when I was upstairs getting everyone clothes. Only one of the sisters was downstairs and my companion just asks "Where's Sister Mortell?" "She's upstairs" then she just goes back to sleep. haha, She doesn't even care that there are like 10 million people in our apartment. So I hardly slept that night because things were pretty crowded. A locksmith came in the morning, so all is well now.

 

Have a good week. Love you.

 

We just thought it was funny to put that picture of me looking so mad with that little poster.