Well this week was
rather quite quick. I would like to start with the funniest thing that’s happened
this week and possibly my mission.
So we were walking down
this rather narrow path to get to some gators house and all of a sudden a motor
cycle decides it wants to pass us on this path meant for one person. On our
left is a brick wall and the right is this river of sewage. As I barely squeeze
to the wall, Elder Beretara tries to get as close to this open hole in a corner
to let to motor pass by. He took one small step back and I watched his HUGE
body fit perfectly into this small hole as he fell into the SEWER!!!! GAH
EEEEEWWWWW!!!!!!! He scraped his arm and LOST OUR PHONE! His scriptures were fine though :) He ripped
his shirt and had ...brown stains... on his clothing... We went home dayon! so
that he could get cleaned up. He cried like a baby too when I tried to get
alcohol on his scrape... After barely touching it with the cloth he would
utterly refuse it. Yesterday, I watched this EVIL dog bite the
fingers of this little kid. He took it like a man when I cleaned his small cuts
with alcohol.
(His battle wounds)
(Elder entered this whole to fall into the sewer...
EEEWWWW!!!!!)
So the little children
love me! I am like a jungle gym to them too. They are always grabbing onto my
arms either swinging on them or asking to be lifted up. I love them so much and
they are probably my favorite part of this whole mission! With their dirty
little faces they are so adorable and I wish I could hug them:/ We can’t hug
them.
Went on splits with my
DL and worked in our big city here of Talisay (because Pardo isn’t big
enough!). Worked there and had a great time! Kind of a break too haha!! (Not a
break from working but a break from not working.) It is difficult to get some
people to have a true desire to serve and so it ends up affecting you. When
I am not working my depression come back. I get more annoyed, patiences goes
down, I get slightly more angry too. I don’t like this so I am always trying to
be out and working (cuz working for us is really serving). Well with this
whole transfer we have been out of the house 2-3 hours late every day, not
really trying to find people or new gators... it’s really frustrating and
depression the comes back. Well I was reminded of a talk by David A. Bednar
called the Character of Christ. In summary he talks about how people in their
worst of times turned outward to serve others and due to this the pain goes
away. This is how I've managed 9 months (WOW 9 MONTHS!!) by always serving, so
I HATE IT when I am not working (serving). It just brings back the loneliness
and depression. A lot of people’s "walls" go down when all you try to
do is help them. This one exp we helped this mentally disabled tatay carry his
big water buckets to his house and ended up teaching his older sister. She
seemed slightly interested kay all we tried to do was help them. Good lesson
and blessing that came from trying to serve!
Ah... simple week. The
happiness is slowly coming back and hopefully I will be able to learn to serve
even those who are bugging me hahahahahaha! JK I love them all:3
I wish the best for you
all! I totally had some awesome pics but the internet shop here won’t let me
plug in my camera. Oh well. Sa sunod lang!
My cebuano is getting
good too. Maybe next week Ill email sa bisiya lang!
Amping moha!
-Elder Morris
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