WHITE WASHING Sept 19th 2016

So pretty much if i had ever stressed in my 20 years it has been nothing compared to the stress i have right now.... as in this has hands down been one the hardest and most stressful weeks of my life so far... and i am sure that it will get more stressful as i go through out this upcoming week and all that... Honestly when i first found out that i was Training, being District Leader, White washing, and just everything that i got called to do this transfer... i freaked out... I didn't and still don't feel like i can do it honestly it is one of the toughest things i have done so far in my mission as in i feel like i hit a brick wall. It has gotten better though as i have searched my Blessing and seeked out for answers to why i got all of this responsibility in one BIG package... 😲🙃 but i do know that the Lord qualifies the people he calls to do the work. so i have a ton of faith in this transfer that yes it will be really rough for me but i will gain a ton from it and it will help me learn things i need to learn and to be able to help this area and my bata become the missionary he wants and needs to be!!! I truly am really looking forward to the next 3 months training, being district leader and having a new area!!!!!

So this week honestly hasn't been very productive because my bata got here on thursday and we had been in the city for a day and have been getting shown around the area to try and figure things out and where everyone lives and who they are!!! super hard...  but ummm my bata is a pinoy and he is tagalog speaking and doesn't understand english very little and doesn't understand ilonggo so as you can figure that out trying to communicate can be fun sometimes... :) pretty much my head feels like it is gonna explode cause i get spoken to in 3 languages... Ilonggo, Karaya, and Tagalog... but it is good cause i am starting to understand tagalog a lot more... 

So this week since we showed up like at the end of the week i will let you guys know more about how the finding goes and the area goes and everything

Interesting story for the week actually so apparently there is a former investigator here that just randomly showed up at our house on Sunday cause that is where we have church ya... our house is the most ghetto thing here in the mission as well... but anyways we are saying the closing prayer when he comes in and guess what he is drunk... and just starts yelling while we are saying the closing prayer to sacrament ya not very pleasant... tapos after that we got asked by the members if we could help with the situation cause since i am white he wanted to talk to me... and so pretty much we had to kick him out and tell him to go home and he started to just scream out in front of the primary and the youth f your God... so i mean very very very interesting way to spend my first sunday out here in miagao... but umm i will let you know more about everything next week :)

kag tani things will get better cause it has been a weird and stressful week this week but it should all be ok soon :) i love you guys a ton and hope that you all had a wonderful week this week and  Remember who you are.

Keep being amazing and striving your bests and i hope you all are excited for this up coming conference!!!! and preparing for it!!!! ;) don't worry i will be studying it as well too so you guys won't be the only ones doing it ;)

I will try and send a video or two to you guys that i had taken from this week so hopefully it works.... 

Keep Smiling :)

Palangga ko kamo, Nahidlaw ko kamo...

Pagpalangga,

Elder Merrill