September 21, 2010

Hey everyone! now that our email time is cut short and you all want to hear about how awesome things are going for me. so here you go. tell me if this isn't all good.
so things for me this week went alright. we had a crazy incident with elder seupule last saturday. we were doing a service project with the branch and so we were using pretty big knives called sundongs. so this car drives by and elder seupule is acting like he's stabbing the car. but he's a good 6 feet from the car. so no one saw this but me and i'm like thats not too awesome. so the car stops. and it clicks. oh crap. so the guy gets out and starts talking to a member and i see him point at seupule. so i'm like oh no. then he turns to seupule and yells "whats your problem kid?" in cebuano. so elder seupule doesn't understand. so he starts walking towards the guy asking, "what? what?" but the guy is scared of the grizzly bear coming at him holding a machete/sundong. so he gets in his car and seupule walks up to the window and taps on it asking him what the guy said. then the guy locks his door and starts to drive. seupule, wanting to know what he said, keeps tapping. eventually the car is about to take off and so he chases it and smacks the back...kinda hard. the guy drives off but seupule follows him.
so we decide to go home. on our way back to presidents house to grab our bags we see the car come back. and it stops in front of us and out gets 4-5 guys in their 50s with HUGE sticks of bamboo. and their tapping them in their hands like baseball bats. so its 5 on 2. actually 5 on 3 cuz we have the spirit on our side. so i turn around and tell them we dont want any trouble. and they tell me they want my comp. not me. so i tell them he's not filipino and he doesn't understand the language. so then they tell me that they want to take us to court. them against us. so we went to court.
the best part of this is that they have neighborhood courts. if there's a problem in the neighborhood, the neighborhood captain is the judge. turns out the neighborhood captain is the brother of the guy in the car. so i become the lawyer for my comp. i was soooooooooo stoked!!! i finally get to do some practice and get to debate! so long story short, i school this guy. in his language. i proved to him and to the court that my comp was not liable for his actions because his culture is so far off from this one. then the guy said he thought that he thought seupule wanted to hurt him. i told him that wasn't an excuse because we thought he was going to hurt us with his Outsiders band of bamboo wielding bad boys. (hahahaha. thats an awesome sentence.) so we got off. it was great. case closed. another case won by me.
other than that this week was lame. hahahaha.
we went back to our 8 investigators and they weren't home. we were bummed. too bad. not much time. i had to report the incident to president which took a lot of time.
everyone else......i love you too.
alright!
see you later mountain faces!
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