1/3/11

Hey yall

This week has been really good. These last 5 days we have gone around to all the members to visit them and start getting there trust. We pasted around a dinner calendar yesterday and it filled right up!!!! Not everyday but alot more than I thought would be there. The area is so small that we can walk from one side to the other in 10 min or so. Im in a branch now with attendance about 100 or so. Yesterday 127 attended which they said was the most in a long time. They didnt have enough bread or water so they had to find more which took sometime. So far my tagalog has increased ALOT. Of course im still learning and clueless at time but thats part of life. People are really surprised when I tell them i've only been in the Philipinas about 8 months. We ate at a members last night and I was having a hard time with my spoon and fork so I put them aside and used my hands. They have more respect for you if you can eat with our hands and especially rice with ants in it. Which no one wanted to eat so I thought why waste it. So I ate it with my hands. Ummm New Years was absolutely crazy!!! Huge fireworks being thrown at the jeepneys which we were in. So we got orders from our Mission President to be inside by 6pm NO LATER. We had a little Fiesta with six missionaries. Chicken, Rice, and Ice cream. With the loud music from the neighbors until 2am. This Holiday season is crazy here. Tons of food. Christmas and New Years I was stuffed. Christmas I thought I was going to throw everything up. M new area is kinda cold. Its really high so the wind is strong so I freeze at night so now I have to sleep with a blanket or I cant sleep. We have 2 senior missionary couples that go to church with us. Yesterday after church we were invited to go to there house for dinner and talk about the area. I was way excited haha GOOD FOOD!!!! But we had a meeting so we will be doing that Wednesday night. The Couple Missionaries are both American so church is kinda weird for them....Tagalog...........Sister Morgan bore her testimony in Tagalog and Elder Morgan said a prayer and answered some stuff in tagalog. I was suprised and they are doing really good. The work has been slow but will pick up tomorrow when we get back to our finding. Im pretty excited to be here. The member are nice. Well thats all no pics this week but mabe next week. Love you all.

Elder Cobbley