So first off mom. You didnt miss me. The Lord has his ways. We had our zone activity this morning (site seeing...again. I'll talk about that later...) and then when we got back there was a burnout and no electricity. So I couldnt email. So the power just came on about 30 minutes ago so here we are now.
Alright. So I dont know how much is in my account. I pulled out 1000 pesos a week or so ago. We had to get some things done with it and also I did some good with it. Here's what we did with 19 bucks. Remember that I told you about that family of 6 who's father died? They have NOTHING. As in nothing. The only money that they get is from whatever they can manage to sell from their little store in front of their house that has nothing also. So one day we went over there after pulling out that 1000 and we were going to share a message with them but they said they would rather not. As we talked a little bit we found out that they had no money. They couldn't even buy dinner that night. So they were all going to drink some water from the spicket out back and then go to bed hungry. So I gave them money for dinner. I couldn't imagine those 5 kids going to bed without dinner.
But the best is that last night was their youngest daughters birthday. She turned 6 yesterday. She's never had a birthday party before and we hadn't held an FHE over at their house. So we went out and bought a couple kilos of rice, some rotisserie chickens and bottles of soda. And we celebrated that little girls birthday in style. We all left last night STUFFED!!! But Elder Akina and I just felt so good. Because we knew that those kids weren't going to forget that night for a while. We won't either.
Work for us has been going alright. We kinda got put in a tough spot last week and weren't able to reach all of our goals. We had an all-day Zone CSP on Monday, Zone Conference on Tuesday, and P-Day. So it was kinda tough for us to come out of that stats hole. But we tried hard. Thats what mattered.
Thanks dad for the Covey bit. I love that guy's leadership stuff. It was a good help. Especially since I'm still trying to establish myself as a leader. You know what I mean? I've gotta put some cash in my accounts.
Alright so today we did our zone activity. It was a Bohol tour...again. You know how much I love sight seeing. The zone leaders set the whole thing up before they asked us what we wanted to do so in reality we had no choice...lame. It wasn't too bad though. Me and Elder Akina stayed patient. Well, as patient as anyone could be under the circumstances. haha.
We did a kind of treasure hunt thing at Sagbayan Peak that was kinda cool. We didn't WIN win but the guys who won got their clues out of order and we came in 2nd in the unofficial results. The official results were this...we won.
So its only 52 more days until BYU football kicks off...... have we filled our holes at all???
Yes mom. There's an old lady in the branch who washes our clothes for us. Its awesome.
Alright. Love you!
Brandon
