5/30/2011

Hello everyone.

This week has been way fast. I have 3 days until i hit my 1 yr here in Philippines. I dont know how I am going to celebrate but I will think of something. This week was not to bad. We had some good experiences. I gave a talk in sacrament yesterday hahaha I was told the night before to speak on service. So I studied a little bit and made some notes that night and morning. We had 4 investigators come to church. We also had a big increase of attendance this week! The last few weeks we had about 40 to 60 attend. This last Sunday we had 104 attend. But most of those were visiting and so we will see what happens next week. We have had dinner appointment every night this last week. I was starting to complain for some weird reason haha but thats just cause I was eating a lot rice. My companion and I have stopped drinking soft drinks. But last Saturday we went to get a snack at a tindahan.....let me explain this well....This is a small store were people sell small items like ketchup, eggs, soft drinks, snacks from their front window or door. These people sit and watch their tindahan all day selling stuff to people. Anyways we went to this tindahan to buy a snack and I saw a soft drink that I have never seen before. Arcy's Root beer. I had to have one as well as my companion.

The Morgan Family one of our progressing investigators are doing great but they have some problems that might keep them from baptism on June 11. They are from Kalookan, Manila and that is were they went to school but it is really crazy and dangerous there. There are gangs and riots that happen a lot. Their oldest sister wants them to go to school here in Bulihan where its not as crazy. For them to study they have to have a Birth Certificate that needs to be green for them to enroll. Why green I do not know. But we are working with them to get that and prepared for baptism.

Great news Sister Howard has been released from the Hospital. We saw her yesterday and she is really skinny but doing well she said. They will be going home soon. They have about 4 weeks left. They are some awesome mission parents! Well that all for this week. Thanks for all of your support. Love you all.

-Elder Cobbley