So
this week hasn't gotten better a little bit worse actually. I still
have been sick all week and last night I was throwing up just lovely
amounts of fluids! but anyways with the mission. The 5 Investigators
that we had with baptismal goal dates is now 0, because of
complications. We have 1 progressing investigator and are having a
really hard time finding new investigators! We are having a hard time
still getting the members to work with us, and making sure the Ward
Missionaries are performing their calling. Things have just been so
discouraging that Elder Mack and I often find ourselves in our apartment
with nothing to do and basically wallowing in sadness. It sucks! So one
day I just got pissed that all this stuff was happening, so we sat down
for a couple hours and evaluated our work and efforts. What we can do
better and what things we need to focus on to find new investigators and
stay busy. Also focusing on how we can get the members and ward
missionaries excited of the work. We have though of a lot of things and I
feel that this week is going to be a good week and Elder Mack and I are
going to flip this Area around! Oh and here is the actually place we
are living so hopefully you can look it up on google earth or something
and try and find it.
Golden City, Phase 4E, Santa Rosa, Laguna.
Something like that so that pretty much the area I am walking around all day.
This
place is crazy! It's so polluted where I am at because I am close to a
city. I start to get sick because of how much I am breathing in
everyday! but, its still pretty sweet country to be in. Every now and
then it still hits me! Wow! I am in the Philippines! Over 5000 miles
away from home.Since we have been walking so much people start to see us
more often and come up and talk to us. Mostly kids though. Word spreads
around these neighborhoods though that there are to Americans walking
around every now and then and so my companion and I will just be walking
around and some random group of dudes come up to me and just say "
Whats up Kikel" " Hey brother Kikel" Hey six four whats up!?" hha they
all know my height and so they call me six four hahahah
People just stare at you for
days here. It makes me feel like I am a celebrity. A lot of people are
to scared to come talk to us. Kids ask us if we are celebrities because
they only see white people on TV. So it's really fun walking around,
guys always want us to play basketball, but we never do cause its just
so freaking hot! So I don't know what its telling you but after that
rain storm it hasn't rain for almost a week! It has been getting so
hot!! I am going to dry up like a prune when I get back to Utah. The
humidity here is crazy! My companion has actually lost 80lbs since he
has been here! thats kind of scary! He said in the mtc he was 5'9" and
270lbs and he showed me pictures! he was a big boy.
So my companion Elder Mack. He is pretty cool and a big nerd like me!
All
we do is talk about video games and food everyday and how much we miss
it! He even plays MTG and we get into that way to much and it makes me
want to play it so bad. but, it is forbidden so it doesn't matter. We
will come to the computer shop to e-mail and we will see kids playing
video games and we just want to play so bad!! We also talk about cars
and stuff and man it made me so homesick! knowing I still have 22 months
left! Oh well I need to forget it now so I can surround myself with the
work. Elder Mack is from Georgia, and he is planning on going to school
at BYU Idaho. He wants to get a internship down in California for
gaming or something like that. Elder Mack use to be a Pro gamer before
he left so he just loves talking about videos games. He is really nice
and really considerate, I think he thinks I am mean because I a really
big and stuff haha. psh.. like that can ever be true. Im like a plush
cuddly bear.
Yeah well thats pretty much it for this week. Hope all is well at home! Love ya!
-Elder Kikel
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