Hey champs!
Alright. So I got my Christmas Package today and you'll never believe this but I got my Fall package on Friday. hahahaha. Yeah. I know. It was postmarked September 17. It got lost in the mail somewhere and its all gone now except for the Candy Corn. I kissed the bag of Candy Corn. It was all so good. Elder Atanacio loved the Twix and M&Ms. I was eating some M&Ms (which turned into a brick of peanut butter chocolately goodness by the way tungod sa heat, pressure from other boxes I assume and my sticking them in the freezer) and he just kinda looks at the bag and says quietly, "I like those". I turned the bag and said, "Dig in Big Fella!!!" Then he says, "Wow. I thought you'd never ask!" I said, "I thought you never would either." hahahahahaha. He's a goon. Love my companion. I was thinking about it the other day. I really have been blessed companion wise. I haven't had a single comp yet that I didnt like!
As for the Christmas package, I had a good laugh that you really wrote on the customs slip "MENS UNDERWEAR" in huge letters. Aint nobody bustin into that box!
Dad, you were asking about the kids dressing up and getting presents.....not really. haha. I think Brother Mercado is from Luzon and I've heard that things are way different up there. The Visayas is a little more ghetto. (By the way, there is a wall here that has the word 'ghetto' painted on it. I hope to get a picture with it before I transfer) The kids here actually don't dress up. What they do is they get a board or a stick and they nail flattened out bottle caps on it so they can shake the stick and the caps will sound like very annoying bells. Then they go door to door or store to store and shake the bottle caps while singing Christmas songs in the hopes that someone will give them some money or food. Some kids came to our door and I gave them each a Double Stuf Oreo. Heck, I'd take that over money any day! Then you have grown men who get a whole band together and they go around with these instruments that they made themselves and have little Filipino mariachi band sessions for some change. Its pretty cool. Some members asked me if people sing songs and ask for money in America
We had a great success this week. We found out that the carpenter working at our Bishop's house is a member. Loooong time member but inactive and gets drunk almost nightly. So we set up a time to meet with him and we took him, his wife and his daughter to the temple for the weekly temple tour. It was a great experience. They weren't so stoked at first. Brother Mendez was. It kind of rekindled his testimony of his conversion. But his wife was not down. Neither was Jade---their daughter. But by the time we were done, they were asking us to teach them. We set and appointment and went to their house the next day. Then we taught the whole family. They are getting baptized on the 29th of January. Really excited because they are a great sealing opportunity. We have about 13 committed investigators. The work is going great.
Alright. Love you all and excited to talk on Friday.
