Hello everyone! As recommended by Mr. Mario Midili, i will try and make this email shorter hahah. This week was so good!! We met the entire zone on tuesday and there is a missionary who actually just finished his mission here from Richland! Cant seem to get away from the bomber pride,,, its everywhere! haha. Elder Golle worked our way around our area trying to meet as many members in the Branch as possible. Weve really grown close to the Branch President and his family and it has helped us a lot in finding out where everyone lives and also advice about the area! Tuesday night was awesome, in the morning i was still adjusting to life here and was kinda frustrated with the heat and food and all.. then we took a trike back from meeting the zone and I saw a car with Washington State license plates! WHAT? I freaked out but Elder Golle was so confused why hahaha then that night we went out to get dinner and i met a guy wearing EWU basketball shorts! Gotta love the 509 pride in my heart hahaha. Also, I ate Balut! Surprisingly enough it was masarap! (delicious) and it was so good i might have gotten a second one too! hahah We ate balut, chicken intestines and rice and ulam. So so good! Who would have guessed it would be so good haha i guess the Filipinos did! The rest of the week every day we went out finding new people to teach! Everyone here is so nice and willing to listen to our message. They help me a lot when i mess up speaking Tagalog which is good. Every single night it thunderstorms like crazy and the lightning is so bright! We only had rain during the day once, and the rain felt so nice! It gave us a chance to cool off from the heat! Elder Golle and I find things to work on or practice as we walk. Some of the houses are about 1/4 a mile away from other houses, and then in some areas, its about 2 miles from a barangay and then in the barangay there are hundreds and hundreds! As we walk, I speak Tagalog and he speaks English and we correct eachother! His accent cracks me up, then i think about how bad my accent probably is and i become very humbled haha. I love having time every morning to study scriptures, or church works. It helps me so much prepare for the day and learn more about Christ! I was never a big reader but I am already starting to love books and read ones that other missionaries or are Mission President have us read!
We were walking through a barangay one day and i gentleman stopped and asked us if we wanted to buy any of his fighting chickens! He said he would listen to our message if we took a tour of his chickens it was so funny hahaha.
We have two children who live with their grandparents in our branch, Cara and Zed. They are awesome! They are 11 and 9 and are so so smart about The Church! Thy want to be baptized so bad but their mom who lives abroad is against it for now. Hopefully she will change her mind, its a tough situation but its okay because at the end of the day I know that life is still great! Quick shoutout to the one and only Shellz Pitt, mom happy birthday!! (coming soon)!!!
On saturday we will be going with members of the Branch to help give service to those in need! Hopefully We will be with someone who likes to speak English hahah! Everyone knows english but prefers not to talk in english, they feel self conscious about sounding wrong and im like cmon guys are you kidding me! Im wrong all the time! hahaha The snacks are delicious too! Because we are in such a small city there isnt a 7/11 or gas station so there arent any american snacks, (reall missin those kit kats and snickers haha) but theres a twinkie look alike called and Fudgee Bar. They are so so good!! Elder Golle and i will rock paper scissors almost everyday to see whos buying the fudgee bars that day!
I love it here. Its a great place with greater people. I hope my pictures go through! Im still trying to figure out the best way to send pictures from my camera, each computer shop is different! Take care everyone and make sure to send my mom a happy birthday message ;)
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Elder Pitt
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