10/18/2010

Magandang araw sa inyo lahat Friends at tsaka Family

This week has been real different than the others haha. Why? A new area ha sempre....This coming saturday in going back to my old area in Muntinlupa to attend a baptism of 5 of my last investigators. The problem I ran in to when I was planning this was there is a baptism here in my new area but I have only been here 2 weeks so I asked President Howard if i could return to my area and attend that and he said "yes but hurry back to your area". We have to go on splits for me to go cause my companion is baptizing in this area. Im going with a ward missionary back to my area. Im way excited cause i miss them so much haha I never thought I would feel or say that haha. The life and people grow on you. I told my companion today that im scared to go back to America cause everyone is so nice here. The way everyone talks here is so different haha in America I think it would be alittle wierd and personal to talk the way we talk here Basta lang. And plus my companion said that when i speak English he doesn't understand me hahaha he said maybe your leaving out words or something. Sayang hahaha........My speaking and understanding has increased alot Tagalog wise haha. Anyways we had a really cool experience last week and yesterday. Elder Cook of the 12 apostles came to the philipinas and visited the Manila Mission missionaries. He shared a really good message as long as a member of the 70...Elder Edwards. Yesterday he came to Paranaque Stake and spoke to everyone and I am in the Paranaque Stake haha. I shook his hand twice. And I told everyone that I wasn't going to wash my hand but here you have to haha. Here is a quote we received from our AP's......"You were in the war in Heaven and one day when you are in the Spirit World you will fascinated with those who you will associate with. You will ask someone what time period they lived in and you might hear, "I was with Moses when he parted the Red Sea", or "I fought with Captain Moroni against the Lamanites." As you stand there in amazement, someone will turn to you and ask, "Which prophet's time did you live?" And you will say, "The time of Thomas S. Monson....." YOU were held back six thousand years because you were the most talented, most obedient, most skillful, most courageous, most virtuous, most chaste, and most righteous. Are you still.......? REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!...........I thought that was really cool.....Well to answer some ?'s..My area is about 30 min away from the apartment so we walk there everyday cause no jeeps or trics go over there. There are 4 of us in the apartment... Lahat foreigners. One from Utah, one from California, one from New Zealand, and ME:).....My companion is from New Zealand and he has been out 9 or 10 months. Its his first time to be a Senior. We get along for the most part haha. Everyone has there differences but I give up when he wants to argue haha. They laughed at me this morning cause I washed my clothes by hand there clean and smell good, and I laughed at them cause they paid to have there's done and there not even clean just smells good haha. The ward is alright to work with.. nothing like my last area. They were amazing to work with. My companion has been in the area 2 transfers now so he knows the areas but he doesn't know everyone's names so i have to ask haha. Well maybe next pday I will have some pics to share with everyone. Well thats all for today. Hope everyone has a great week and remember S.M.I.L.E. Mahal ko kayo!!!!!:D

Elder Cobbley