I have about 3 more weeks left on Siquijor; pretty fast if you ask me. These past 5 1/4 Months have been pretty insane haha!
Our interviews with the
mission president were pretty good. Nothing new. Nothing bad either haha!
The main thing that w- (OK I am going to make an intermission real
quickly. While I typed that thing 4 hours ago we had a brown out where the
power shuts off for unknown periods of time. This is typical. Sigi, balik ta!)
The main thing that I
want to share with you is what happened last Friday. We had a great opportunity
to go out to some far away place and teach. We got invited by a barangay
(subdivision) leader to give a 2 hour presentation to about 200 people. They
were students and their parents (and this was after school btw at the big b-ball
court). The place took 2 hours to get to and was rather quite crazy to get to!
We got to Lazi Siquijor on the other side of the island and had to walk about 7
km into the jungle to find this place called Po-o Lazi (I can see my dad making
a joke out of the name...). We got lucky and hitched a ride with a construction
worker to the place.
These people sure were
prepared for us! They had 2 rehearsed dances that they performed for us! The
cooking students cooked food for us! And they were all sitting and waiting for
us by the time we got there. It was pretty fun! We talked to them about stress
management, spirituality as a student, good morals and values, and how to be a
good student. It was a rather neat experience. I have a bunch of pics and
videos of it!
(Me talking.)
(The food!)
(This is the dance group.)
(Took a bunch of pictures with the people.)
(They gave us little pins as you see on Elder Badana.)
Going home at 5:30 we
ran into a problem. There were no more vehicles at that hour and it started to
rain. We were a good 15 km from our house and had a mountain to climb! We
started trekking. As we neared a really rich house in the middle of nowhere the
rain just down poured! Oh yeah I had no umbrella cuz mine got lost. So I said,
"Alright time to be humble! I'm going to ask them to drive us down the
mountain." As I walked over to the house this guy peered out the window
and then invited us over. So we ended up getting a ride home! To be honest if
we had walked we would have gotten home at around 11-12 at night so we were blessed
with a ride! The Lord got us up that mountain and He sure did get us
down!
The rest of the week was
simple. We had 1 person from my entire area make it to sacrament this week...
No investigators which does mean that I will not baptize anyone here on Siquijor:(
I did chastise a few people for that haha.
(There is the small town where our church is.)
(Messing with sleeping people! She is a member btw...)
(This one is little Quinny Mae. She is a 12 y.o member and like the only youth in our area! )
Other than that we are
still kicking! I did receive news that on November 18 we have a mission wide
meeting. We have a special guest coming to speak to our mission! Si Elder Quinton
L. Cook!!! Oh man I am excited to hear him and see him! I will try my best to
take a selfie with him! He will be my second Apostle that I have seen in my
life so I am excited!
Other than that i am
still good. I did hit the 24th again and this time it means that I am 16 months
done (2/3) and have 8 to go:((((( Super fast.....:(
Take care! Love you all!
Vote wisely here in a few weeks!
-Elder Morris
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