I just love Baguio. There is a huge mall named “SM”
and it is such a great place. It’s awesome! Obviously it's missing a lot of
stores that I love, but the mall is way bigger and way nicer than the Boise
mall. I love that we can go to Baguio on p day if we want. It takes about an
hour and a half.
My hair is falling out as usual, but not as rapidly
as it has at other times in my mission. I'm excited to get some decent shampoo
and conditioner in Baguio.
Here's a funny story. Last Monday, I walked into
the place to pay our electric bill. The guy there said "ay, Mormons. One
time I watched a movie about a Mormon. Kolipoki!' then Sister D says,
"Hey! that's her uncle!” That was pretty funny.
We had a pretty good week. The work is going well. We
are still struggling to get people to church. People in Agoo are so kind, but
also no one can afford money to come to church. We also had interviews with President
Balledos. They just popped in at all the missionaries’ apartments. It was a
little weird talking to him while he sat at my desk. Anyway, we don't use the
two upstairs rooms because of the rat problem, but I cleaned them in case
president went in there. In the process of my cleaning, I found several lizard
eggs. They looked like very large mints. Several of them had already hatched...
Here's a funny little thing. Yesterday during
sacrament meeting, the counselor gets up and announces that we will be pleased
to witness the primary program. Then the primary president freaks out and says,
"It's been moved to the 9th". haha. So then there was a whole lot of
scrambling and finger pointing and embarrassment for about 5 minutes and then
the bishopric ended up all speaking on the spot. We had primary program
practice after church and I ended up playing the piano for them. The branch mission
leader wanted me to be in MCM but then the primary people needed me to play the
piano... everyone just fighting over Sister Mortell! haha. But I just saw into my
future as a primary pianist.
Our investigators are doing fine. We have 9 IBDs. (That’s
really good). Sadly, most of them are not coming to church!! Only one comes on
a regular basis. So that has been very frustrating. We don't really know what
to do. I guess if we're doing everything we can, there's not really anything we
can do about it. Our one investigator is doing well. We are seeing some major
progress in him. He likes to give us percentages to tell us where he is. Last
week, he believed that the truth was 50% Mormon, 50% Catholic. Now we've moved
to 60% Mormon and 40% Catholic. So that was a big success this week. He loves
the Book of Mormon so much and knows it's true. He’s just having a hard time
leaving the Catholic Church. He is scheduled for baptism November 22. Happy
birthday mom! And then we have a whole slew of people that are supposed to be
baptized December 13.
We are working very hard and everything is going
well. The only thing I’ve been struggling with lately is feeling disappointed. I feel like we're running around every day trying to do everything
we can and there's not a whole lot of progress. We are just teaching the same
people over and over again. But, I am very happy and training is going well and
everything is great!
Also, weird! I just saw someone wearing a Boise
State shirt. I am so sad that BSU beat BYU.
Also, here's a sweet little thing. There is this
couple in our ward and they do about 90% of the work in the branch. They are so
devoted. They are awesome. They were supposed to go abroad (That is a very big
deal here because the people that are able to go abroad have a dramatically
better life. They can all earn money for their families and stuff). But they
decided not to because they knew that the church needed them here. I think
their devotion is very admirable.
Love you! Have a great week!
Running with Sister D
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