So this week has been pretty dang busy but super fun :) so for one i hope you all are loving the weather out in Utah and are enjoying spring :) cause the weather out here is just hot and hot! we actually experienced rain or at least i did for the first time.... which sucked cause we were in the bukid( mountain) teaching one of our investigators and it started to just rain super hard but it was super cool cause we got let into a house and we actually got 3 new investigators which was super freaking awesome and a blessing cause if it hadn't had rained we wouldn't have met them at all... but after that we got to walk out in the mud and in the mountains in the rain! not to mention it was dark so that didn't help at all but we got home and it looked like we had just jumped into a pool with all of our clothes on! the fact that half the houses here stay standing up is beyond me honestly... but it was fun! :) Second lets just keep it at that public bathrooms suck here... but also i tried something super interesting this week! Chicken Intestine. honestly not as bad as i thought it would have been even though most of you will read this and think what the freak are they feeding you out there... trust me i ask myself the same thing most of the time cause you don't really wanna ask what kind of meat you are eating honestly.... found that out the hard way haha but oh well... it does suck though cause i am just dreading the day that we get fed by an investigator and they give us fish cause i have tried a thing called a fish ball so far and it is not very good but dry fish here is super cheap and that is what most people get and eat when they don't have any quarto( money) but it sucks cause my area is the seafood capital of the whole freaking Philippines. Go figure right? the fact that i got sent here for my first area clearly i am being told something.... but until i get the message that i don't have a choice to eat fish i will probably avoid it as best as i can ;) haha typical me.... but this week has been good our investigators are progressing so much and i love it!!!! they are doing so amazing and we had one that wasn't reading so we couldn't do much till he read but he finally read!!!!!!! i can't explain how happy i was that he told us that! he is such an amazing guy and i love that he refers to us as his best friends! but i just let him know how much we love him and how much God loves him and that he and his family will be so blessed and just that we are willing to do anything for him and to help him and the Spirit was so strong there and with him and it was just the best feeling ever and he was just so happy to hear that and honestly when you see your investigator be so filled with joy that they cry and hug you and tell you thank you it is probably one of the best feelings you will ever feel because you just feel so amazing to be able to help them and help them hear the things they need to hear and you honestly just want to cry with them because of how happy you feel and i really just don't know how to express the feeling because it is one of those times where you can't put it into words.... but i love it and i love that we have became so close with our investigators! they are all so amazing! the only thing that sucks is that we don't have any member present lessons because the members refuse to come out with us.... and our bishop kind of sucks... and won't do anything about it and won't help us... but Basta!( whatever) we are still getting really good numbers and have been actually improving our zone goals from 7 months ago until now which is super amazing! so we got to see fire works which was pretty legit cause it has been forever since i have seen them! but we had a huge festival here called capiznafest cause technically my language isn't Ilonggo here even though it is the only difference is they switched like 4 words and made it a new language here... stupid i know but whatever Bahala. but it is so fun and it's even more fun when you have investigators out in the freaking middle of the mountain and you get done teaching about 4 lessons there and it is 8:30 and you guys don't have a ride back because all the trike drivers are in the city or won't pick you up and you get to stand out and walk in the mountain in the dark for 20 minutes getting eaten by mosquitoes and they are big here! my heck but that's the best part of missionary work cause honestly you know that you had a good successful day and you get a really good view of the stars while walking but i am so grateful cause we finally got picked up by someone and this tends to happen a bit but we actually got picked up by a guy that owns a trike that had picked us up the night before and gave us a ride back to the city thankfully! but i am so grateful for all the many miracles we have even the little ones like that cause it lets us know that God is watching over us and will help us in times of needs and i love it and i love knowing that our Father in Heaven loves us and I know that this Gospel is true and i love being able to learn more about it everyday and to share it with all these people and to have it in my life because it is so important and we were actually talking about this last night but i really liked it and it made me think of how true it is but " people do so many things to fill in the hole in their heart by doing things that are bad for them or they think make them happy such as alcohol, drugs, money and things like that yes they may "make people happy" for the time being and buying cool things are fun and make you happy but once you are done here on earth those things don't go with you and that hole in your heart is the shape of Jesus and the only thing that will fill that hole is the true Gospel, This Gospel and having Christ and God in our lives but those are the only things that will fill in that hole and make us truly happy because we will have the Gospel for eternity and you can fill in that hole by marrying someone who is worthy who cherishes the Gospel and will help you grow in the Gospel and will help you become a better person and makes you want to become a better person and they can help you fill that hole and especially if they are a worthy Melchizedek Priesthood holder and can take you to the Temple to be sealed for eternity and to have your family in this Gospel and sealed for eternity cause that is what will make you truly happy in life" but it is so true and so important that we strive to be the best we can be and once we find that person we want to take to the Temple to make sure that we can make and keep those promises to them because it is such an important thing to do and to have the Gospel and i am so grateful for it and for my family and all of the people i have in my life and i am so happy to know that i will get to spend eternity with my family and loved ones. Sa ngalan ni JesuCristo. Amen. Palangga Ko Kamo
Palangga,
Elder Merrill
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