Kumusta kayo?

Hows everyone doing? Life in The Philippines is same old, same old.. Amazing! We had a lot of business to ted to this week and it was super fun while doing it! We will start off with Tuesday night when we got a call from two sister missionaries who live about 15 minutes away, why did they call? There was a snake in their house! They 1. Refused to go inside. 2. Demanded us to go there and get the snake hahaha. Elder Golle and I started biking their way and he says quietly "Elder, I hate snakes." I started busting up laughing and so did he, and then I told him if it was a spider we wouldnt be going anywhere near that house but snakes are okay with me! When we arrived at their bahay, they were in the landowners house and told us to immediately go get the snake. So, Elder Golle stood at the door and I walked around trying to find it. Not going to lie, my heart was pounding a little when i was lifting up the pillows our moving the furniture haha but I simply could not find the snake! And then, i found it in the bathroom. I wish I had taken a picture, but the snake was about the size of a my finger and it was dead! Again, i cant lie, and I need to say that yeah I was kinda dissapointed because I really wanted to tackled this huge task of serenading a cobra and leading it out of the house. But instead i just picked it up put it in my hand and walked out of the house, nonetheless victorious! Then the next day, our zone leaders and Elder Golle and I had to look around to find the sisters a new apartment to help them feel a little bit more safe and make sure no other snakes were going to be disturbing their studies or sleep!
There wasnt much else that happened until Friday at the baptism of Onica! It was so beautiful and the baptism was held on the beach into the South China Sea! I will try and send pictures and i hope they go through! She was so so happy and everyone was in such a cheerful mood. It was so spiritual and you could feel the love our Father in Heaven has for every one of us.
Danny Mipa is literally the man! We talk to him almost every day just running into each other and it makes my day! He is really loving the Book of Mormon and prayer!
Speaking of prayer, On Sunday about 10 minutes before Church, our branch president asked me to give a talk on prayer!
I have always heard stories about people who have been asked to give talks right before church and how they felt so unprepared! I feel that too! hahaha it was good though! I ended the talk by reminding all of those in Church that I was a new missionary and if they didnt understand the Tagalog i was saying, to pray about my message later to know what I said. (I thought it was funny seeing how my talk was about prayer, but most of the people didnt get the joke hahaha) All in all this week was awesome again! I really hope the pictures are coming through, Luna is an amazing area and it is so humbling as well. One good thing about it here is that because it rains every. single. day. it gets cooler at night so sleeping like a baby is once again occuring! haha Have a great week everyone! Be safe and remember, Mahal tayo ng Diyos!



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Elder Pitt