A Week in the Life of Elder Hickey

Monday

we prepared for transfers and packed for my trip to Laoag.

Tues

woke up at 3am (happy birthday to me!haha) to catch a bus at 7am-2pm.

Then we had a trainers training at the mission office. I was

temporary companions with e. Marsh and e. Aagard. (both in my mtc district

and both are training also). We ended up proselyting in e. Marsh's

area for two hours.

Wed.

we worked the whole day in e. Marshes area. It was interesting

to see how much we have all improved in Tagalog and at teaching. It

was also fun to meet some new people in his area.

Thurs.

we met all the trainees at the mission office for breakfast!

then we had a training and we found out who our companions would be.

My new companion is E. Pingol. he is Philippino and super cool! At

about 10a,m we threw all of our luggage, supplies of Bof M/pamphlets,

and your package ( I got It!!!!!! it is huge!) onto a trycee to catch

a bus at 10:30 back to Magapit. It is always fun to go on the busses

because the drive is really pretty just really long. We got to Magapit

around 5pm. and then we took a multicab(like a van) to Aparri. We worked

for an hour. My trainee is really good at teaching and he is super

masipag! (diligent)

FRi.

We did weekly planning and then worked in the evening we got rejected

 all day! we only got a couple of lessons. But it was alright.\

Sat.-

We worked all day and  went to a baptism of an

investigator that we used to teach in our last area.

Sun.-

today we only got two investigators at church and they are both

kids. We decided to change the way we are proselyting. We decided

we needed to drop a lot of investigators because they are not

progressing and find new investigators. We started to talk to everyone

we saw today and we got a lot of good potential investigators we are

excited to go teach them all this next week.

Well that is a snapshot of this week! haha a lot happened!  It is hard to go

into details! haha! But I am doing good, my trainee is super awesome!

This next week we have to go back to Laoag again because one of the area

presidency is coming to give a training. patay and pamasahe namin!

mahal naman ang bayad para sa bus! haha! pero ok lang. we are excited

but we also wish we could stay and teach more. Last week we only got a

couple lessons because I went to Laoag. This next week will probably

be similar but we are really going to push ourselves to get more

lessons. Well not much else happened I love you!