New Companion…Great! and New Apartment…Not so great…
So when we first got to our area we jumped out of the bus and pulled our suitcases out onto the side of the road. my companion, He is a shortfunny guy who kind of sounds like hermit the frog.haha. he is philippino and only speaks tagalog, lead me onto a gravel path between some large houses. it seemed like as we kept going they kept getting nicer and nicer i was just getting excited about our apartment, and then i saw it the last house on the path. Its a concrete cubo hut! (a shack with leaves for a cealing) WHAT!? haha! but it only got better. haha. when we got inside i found that it was 3 rooms:bedroom/studies, a bathroom, and a kitchen. it is super stuffy and there were spiders everywhere! there was a musty smell in the whole apartment. I started cleaning right after we got back that evening. i havent stopped since. every time i get i start sweeping cobwebs and killing spiders. It was almost worse than cleaning the sheranians dungeon! haha! in our apartment i have seen Ants, cocroaches, spiders as big as my hand, and rats! haha... i wondered the first night how i was going to survive! haha! since last tuesday the appartment is starting to look a lot better. this morning we tackled the bathroom and a little bit in the kitchen. it is still far from clean though. today we are going to buy a lot of cleaning supplies and pest killer.
other than the apartment i have really liked this area. the members are really nice and seem proactive and excited about doing missionary work. we are the only 2 missionaries in San Juan and we and the members go to Cabugao about 15 min bus ride for church. they are super dilligent and even though it is far a lot of members from san juan still go to church.
Our area is really big it goes all the way to the base of the mountains to the sea. I haven't even seen a quarter of it yet. from what elder pacala told me he also hasn't seen most of the area. his trainer just took them to the same places all the time. since tuesday we have been doing a lot of finding.becaous we only have a few investigators and most of the investigators we had were not progressing.
our area is also really pretty. it feels like i have finally come to the philippines. even though the people here are more rich than those in aparri. there are a lot of trees and it is a lot cleaner. there is almost no trash.
So when we first got to our area we jumped out of the bus and pulled our suitcases out onto the side of the road. my companion, He is a shortfunny guy who kind of sounds like hermit the frog.haha. he is philippino and only speaks tagalog, lead me onto a gravel path between some large houses. it seemed like as we kept going they kept getting nicer and nicer i was just getting excited about our apartment, and then i saw it the last house on the path. Its a concrete cubo hut! (a shack with leaves for a cealing) WHAT!? haha! but it only got better. haha. when we got inside i found that it was 3 rooms:bedroom/studies, a bathroom, and a kitchen. it is super stuffy and there were spiders everywhere! there was a musty smell in the whole apartment. I started cleaning right after we got back that evening. i havent stopped since. every time i get i start sweeping cobwebs and killing spiders. It was almost worse than cleaning the sheranians dungeon! haha! in our apartment i have seen Ants, cocroaches, spiders as big as my hand, and rats! haha... i wondered the first night how i was going to survive! haha! since last tuesday the appartment is starting to look a lot better. this morning we tackled the bathroom and a little bit in the kitchen. it is still far from clean though. today we are going to buy a lot of cleaning supplies and pest killer.
other than the apartment i have really liked this area. the members are really nice and seem proactive and excited about doing missionary work. we are the only 2 missionaries in San Juan and we and the members go to Cabugao about 15 min bus ride for church. they are super dilligent and even though it is far a lot of members from san juan still go to church.
Our area is really big it goes all the way to the base of the mountains to the sea. I haven't even seen a quarter of it yet. from what elder pacala told me he also hasn't seen most of the area. his trainer just took them to the same places all the time. since tuesday we have been doing a lot of finding.becaous we only have a few investigators and most of the investigators we had were not progressing.
our area is also really pretty. it feels like i have finally come to the philippines. even though the people here are more rich than those in aparri. there are a lot of trees and it is a lot cleaner. there is almost no trash.
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