Flooding and Progress

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we started the week bygettingpunted from theinvestigarors that we found last week. so wejustwent finding again. we ended up finding a really nice/receptive old former investigator. we only found himbecause  i had taught himonce before when i wasonexchangeswith elder castillio. he lives in a abandoned house all byhimself but he still told us thathe would  goto church thissunday. the week was starting to look great! the nextfew hours and thenext few dayswe continued to find more andmorereceptive people toteach. as we were findingone morning we heardsomeonecallout to us "hey guys!" haha it was a middle aged guy sitting ona cool low rideing four wheeler. haha. at first we just thoughtitwasoneof theusual colls that people have for us. butwe felt htatwe should talkto him. he turnedoutsuper nice andinvited us to his house for some water. turns out that heis super rich! he hasa huge house. hetoldusabout how he started in oneof thesmallest towns in cagayan as a ordinary farmer then heandhis brother invested in minibus and the business grew and grew until now, fortyyears latter henow owns the largest/most reliable bus company of ilocos and cagayan regions. it was a realy aimspiring. story and he continued to tell us hownooneinhisfamily drinks and how they are always looking to help otqhers. he isso prepared for thegospel! hejust doesnt knowit yet. haha. we had plannedtogo back to him this friday but there was ahuge bagyo fromfridaymorning until last night. we had a lock down onfriday becausea bunchofthestreets were flooding. also ourapartment flooded about three inches on the main floor. we spentmostofthe day just making sure thatnoneofour stuff gotruined.haha. we ended up goingto work onsaturday night. the streets were still flooded and we got completly soaked. we only taught onelesson to a couple that we have recently started teaching. we taught thrm the first principle of theolan of salvation. it was definetly the spiritul highlightofthe week. theyare very poor and always working. theyhavetoldusoveradoverthat they cant goto church. butas we taught themitseemedthat the spirit boretestimonyto themthatthey needto go. it wasnt just usbut they felt that was theright thingtodo.  thisissome thing that ihave learned overandover onmymission. the spirit is always thebestteacer.