July 5th 2010

Hello everyone

HAPPY 4th of July!!!!! Don't worry I'm celebrating hahaha in our own little way and we get the celebrate twice haha. That's the good thing about the time change, we celebrate everything twice haha.Well this past week has flown by. I get my follow up companion next week. I'm serving in the area of Muntinlupa City and I will be serving in the same area again. My companion was a zone leader before he became my companion and so he is going back to be a zone leader and so I'm going to have to show my next companion the area. Anyways this past week hmmmm well my companion and I have 2 baptisms for July 10 I think. One of our investigators decided she doesn't want to be baptized. My companion and I think I might have to do with her father who's family is Iglesia ni Cristo. Iglesia ni Cristo members cant talk to member of Ang Simbahan ni Jesucristo ng mga Banal sa mga Huling Araw. My companion and I are trying to teach him and gain his trust. Anyways this past week we had three CSP's (Community Service Project) We built a kitchen for a member, a roof on a members house, and harvested gabi. Gabi is a plant they eat with rice and its dirty and makes you itch. I have some pics I'm trying to send. So hopefully soon I can get them downloaded. Anyway I had my first fresh coconut juice and coconut. It was alright. It would've been better if it was cold. I ate fresh squid. Today My companion and I got beds hahaha for the past month we have been sleeping on mats on the floor. Elder and Sister Hussey brought us a bunk bed and I'm really excited to be off the floor. Yesterday I saw the ocean well I think it was the ocean. I could have just been a inland. Some the other day asked where I was from so I told them and they asked if I know David Archuleta and i said no haha. Than they asked my I was here and I told them I was on a Mission. They said I needed to go to the coast or some beaches and I said why. They asked me if I was looking for love hahahahaha and I said no I'm on a mission to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. That was the funniest conversation I have had here. Filipinos think I'm here to find a wife hahaha. Just cause I'm white and young hahaha!!!!!!..............Anyways I gotta run so until next week........Ingat po! Mahal ko kayo!:)

Elder Cobbley